Abstract

The Shape of Things

This article discusses the matter related to international politics. The war with Japan is forty-eight hours old as one goes to press, and with operations ranging over a huge area it is not surprising that rumors should be more plentiful than confirmed news. Great Britain has declared war on Finland, Hungary, and Rumania following the rejection by the governments of these countries of demands that they cease from participation in Germany's war against Russia. Hungary and Rumania are so clearly and completely under German ruler Adolf Hitler's thumb and so isolated geographically from the "West that their negative answers were foregone conclusions. But there had been a faint hope that Finland retained enough independence and democratic spirit to make possible its withdrawal from the unnatural Nazi alliance.