Editorials.

The article presents authors' opinion on the political development around the world during early 1941. A nation-wide railroad strike is threatened next month in consequence of the rejection by the operating unions of the recommendations of the Fact-finding Board appointed by the President under the terms of the Railroad Labor Act. This past week has included Armistice Day, the twenty-third anniversary of the day which saw the end of the war that was to end war and make the world safe for democracy. The date was seized upon, appropriately enough, by peace organizations of all kinds and by those interested in peace aims and post-war reconstruction, to exchange ideas and promote views.