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This article focuses on various political developments in the world. Whatever the outcome of the U.S. textile strike, and whatever friction develops between labor leaders and federal officials or among labor leaders themselves, no one can doubt that a new spirit of solidarity has gripped the rank and file of organized labor and that it is ready for the show-down that now appears inevitable. Even the most sanguine expectations of union leaders did not prepare them for the size and spontaneity of this walkout. Since the original strike call went out, people have witnessed the American Federation of Labor giving its support to the strikers, a successful eighteen-hour general strike of all unions and 22,000 workers in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The analysis of the vote cast for German dictator Adolf Hitler at the recent election shows that the highest percentage, except in the internment camps, which usually went 100 pet cent for the man responsible for the imprisonment of those voting, was in Rhenish Bavaria, the Palatinate, with 96.6 per cent. This is really astounding, for the Palatinate is overwhelmingly Catholic, and one might have thought that in view of the murder of a Catholic leader, the protests of the Pope, there would have been a marked dissent.