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Future Freedom
Now At Stake
We live, as every follower of the news media has been told on innumerable occasions, in an affluent society— perhaps the most materially affluent in history. Just about everything has been going up and up, seemingly without pause or end—family income, investment and savings, the gross national product, the enormous sums devoted to industry expansion and better ment of facilities, consumer spending and so on. This, the economists inform us, has been a prosperity unparallel’ ed both in its extent and in the length of time it has continued without a recession. The nation has cause to take pride in all this. But it would be morally and practically wrong to look only at the myriad dollar signs and thoughtlessly conclude that all is right, and there is little for the majority of Americans to worry about. In a far away nation that com paratively few of us could spot accurately on the map, we are engaged in one of the cruelest wars in our experience. It is a war which has grown beyond all expectations and, unless every sign is wrong, is
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