With the American Presidential election less than two months distant,
Englishmen permanently perplexed about the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties should welcome warmly a timely pamphlet, Political Parties in the United States, which Commander Herbert Agar, well known to readers of this journal, has just written for the American Outpost. They will 't considerably relieved, moreover, to learn from Commander Agar that there is in fact no fundamental opposition of principle between the parties. Divergent geographical and economic interests have to be reconciled within each of them, and each when in office approaches the fundamental problems of American national life in substantially the same way. The essential thing is that an effective two-party system is kept in being, and that there is consequently always one party ready to constitute a competent Administration when the other is defeated. Anyone who descries this admirable yellow-covered pamphlet on a bookstall will be well-advised to exchange sixpence for it.
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