ABSTRACT
The “paralyzing abstractions” about the war, for which Justice Frankfurter has found the right phrase, are almost equaled by the abstractions about the peace after the war. Technology, both of industry and of warfare, has been, to be sure, the prime mover in the present world revolutionary upheaval: Adolf Hitler’s legions have merely given a particular historical twist to that upheaval. The immediate post-war period will be economically a difficult one, because of economic demobilization and the need for gearing our industries once more to peacetime uses. Democracy is a world force, capable of liberating untapped productive and moral energies all over the world. A democratic post-war world would mean one which put into power in every nation, and at the world-center, those groups that best understood and expressed the felt needs and the possibilities of the culture.
