Two learned Britons this week looked with foreboding and gloom at America's prospects for postwar prosperity.
Harold Laski, radical economist, author and professor at the University of London, said in a transatlantic broadcast that he was "gloomy" about the future of the world "because I do not see how the free-enterprise system in America can lead to full employment."
Radical Laski said that he saw little hope of avoiding a U.S. postwar depression "because the philosophy of the American businessman today seems to be exactly what it was in 1929."
Geoffrey Crowther, editor of...