Will Result be Clear Cut?

Of course, big experiments occasionally turn out half and half; there is liable to be failure at some points, success at others. There may be in America results so complex that anyone might hesitate to find a verdict. What, for instance, is the verdict on the Russian Five Year Plan? That question could be given a hundred variously qualified answers. One thing is clear—the proportion of failure in the Five Year Plan has not been sufficient as yet to turn out the Government that launched it. Of course, the American population and American industrialisation are in no way parallel with the Russian population and the work it does. Things that pass in Russia may not pass in America. In America one looks for a decisive verdict from an intelligent jury. And humanity's interest is that the verdict be favourable. No one wins if Roosevelt fails.