Total War and the Preservation of Democracy

construction as well as physical rebuilding must be undertaken. In a future made precarious by the atomic bomb, we shall have one little world or no world. All-out preparation for total, atomic war can have a profound effect on our democracy. Peace can give us the opportunity to perfect our democracy. Accordingly, three questions are submitted for consideration. First, what has happened to democratic government in the United States from 1888 to date? Second, what happened to democracy in Germany as a result of dictatorship followed by a war of aggression in which Germany was defeated on her own soil? Third, what are the prospects for the preservation of democracy in the United States in the atomic era

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