Abstract

The Shape of Things

This article presents brief descriptions of various international socio-political issue and developments. It focuses on a sharp anticipatory rise of the newspaper, Wall Street Journal's joy, regarding expected election results, on the day before the polling for the November 1938 elections in the U.S. This seems to indicate that the financial backers of the Grand Old Party are awake to the danger of any headlong onslaught on the New Deal and will encourage the reinforced opposition in Congress to pursue instead guerrilla tactics of obstruction and delay. An issue regarding the Palestine partition plan is discussed here, which has been abandoned by the British government as wholly impracticable. The decision follows on the report of the Woodhead Commission, whose thankless task it was to recommend boundaries for the proposed Arab and Jewish states and to advise on the economic and financial questions involved in partition. The report makes it clear that the commission saw no hope for the peaceful establishment of two independent states in Palestine.