Peace & Prosperity

The people of the U.S. last week were as near as they had ever been to enjoying real freedom from want. A great many of them had more money--and more of the things that money could buy--than ever before in their lives, or in history. To all the rest of the world, America seemed like a dream of plenty in the nightmare of worldwide need. To most Americans too, their prosperity was a dream, and an uneasy one. The gap between the U.S. ideal of peace & prosperity (as symbolized in wartime posters) and the reality with which the U.S. was surrounded, was sharp and deep. If this was peace & prosperity--and what else was it?--most Americans wanted something better, for themselves and for the world.

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