Abstract

The Shape of Things

This article focuses on developments related to politics in the U.S. The "Citizenship Institute" conducted by the American Youth Congress provided the setting for several momentous pronouncements by adults. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his attack on the invasion of Finland in particular and the Russian regime in general, used uniquely plain language. By and large he articulated what most Americans have felt and thought since September. But if his remarks were disturbing to the Soviet Union government, they were not altogether fortunate even in Washington, less because of their substance than because of their tone. Allied Forces in the Near East have been augmented by Australian and New Zealand contingents, believed to number some 30,000, whose arrival in Egypt was greeted with a fanfare of publicity. Almost simultaneously French concentrations in Syria have been copiously reported, and new emphasis has been laid on the growing intimacy of the Allies with the Turks.