Abstract

Washington Jottings

The article focuses on various issues related to the Second World War. Many persons in the United States are still optimistic about the chances of Germany's complete military collapse before Christmas. On the other hand, China's military difficulties might, it is said, enable Japan to hold out on the Asiatic mainland long after its defeat at home. There is widespread feeling that the President of the United States should make a Wilsonian speech soon on what the war is for and where the world is going. A person who helped draft the American plan for the conference at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. asserts that the United States government wants the right to veto any measures by the new league against an aggressor and agrees with Russia that a big power may exercise its veto even if it is itself a party in the dispute.