ABSTRACT
In Europe the task of the democracies will be to capture the vast socialistic machines and operate them for the peace of democracy. In America the task is roughly speaking to create the administrative collectivism and at the same time strengthen and clarify popular control. It is a grim collectivism which Europe has established. It is dominated by a class and operated in the main by a bureaucracy. It has scant respect for liberty, it works through fear and compulsion. People shall have to establish much the same machinery, while they preserve the spirit and purpose of liberalism. The translation of this faith into action is in overwhelming measure still to be done, and no matter what other problems of war and peace the next four years bring, the basic task of the President is to inaugurate the machinery of a democratic collectivism.
