A young American, WILLIAM CONGDON has had firsthand and sympathetic experience in the Italian Red Cross and in the reconstruction project of the Italian Abruzzo where he worked with the American Friends Service Committee in 1946 and 1947. A sculptor by profession, he closed his studio in Lakeville, Connecticut, in 1942 and for three years saw service with the British 8th Army in Egypt, North Africa, Italy, and Germany. He is at present painting in New York.

Most people think of inner-city poverty as a black pnenomenon. But it is also alarmingly high among Puerto Ricans, the worst-off ethnic group in the country—even though Puerto Rico itself has made great progress against poverty and there is a growing Puerto Rican middle class on the mainland

ELLIS G. ARNALL was Governor of Georgia, his native state, from 1943 to 1947; in those four years, he restored the prestige of the state university, put through the repeal of the poll tax, fought the Klan in the open, and worked unceasingly to diversify the agriculture of the land he loved so well. A leading Democrat, who speaks his mind with courage and candor, he is the author of The Shore Dimly Seen and What the People Want, and the logical choice for the third in our series of articles on the coming election. Gardner Jackson’s article on Henry A. Wallace appeared in the Atlantie for August, and Oren Root’s article, on the Republican Revival, in September.

A professor of history at Harvard who has achieved national eminence for his study of the immigrant in America, OSCAR HANDLIN teas awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book THE UPROOTEDin 1952. He is now director of Harvard University’s Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America, and has just returned from a trip to the Orient.