Abstract

The Shape of Things

This article presents brief descriptions of various international socio-political and industrial developments and issues. It reports that the Premiers of Great Britain, France, and Italy attended the conference to sign a peace treaty in Munich, Germany. The leader of Italy, Germany's chief ally, was accorded the honor he deserved as the man who arranged the meeting at which the victory was acknowledged and the peace terms dictated. The conquered nation, Czechoslovakia, was not represented at all, though its emissaries were allowed to sit in the anteroom waiting for the terms. Another issue, reported here, is concerned with China's stand to gain materially from the action of the Council of the League of Nations in allowing members to apply Article XVI individually against Japan. For the League it represents a final retreat from the principles of collective security. A political possibility of the appointment of Felix Frankfurter as the president to the Supreme Court in the U.S. is described here.