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This article focuses on political conditions around the world during the second world war. The French army, broken into four fragments, is still fighting. The dictators' immediate concern is to get France completely out of the war in order to concentrate all their forces for a rapid conquest of Great Britain. That achieved, they can revise their conditions without interference. In an effort to save some children at least, from the Nazi juggernaut an organization known as "Save Europe's Children" was formed in Washington last week under the leadership of Secretary Harold Ickes.

Focuses on plans of European invasion formulated by Great Britain, during the World War II. Need of the second-front campaign to invade Europe; Statement that Great Britain alone cannot invade Europe; Need of a definite military strategy for the invasion; Statement of British statesman Winston Churchill that absolutely essential condition for a British invasion of Europe was always to have been that Russia and the United States must join with England; Argument that British military had compelled Germany to attack the Soviet Union; Demand of Soviet Communists for an immediate second front; Risks involved in those second!front campaigns; Refusal of liberals to support second-front campaign because they were afraid of Soviet predominance in Europe; Opposition to the invasion of Europe in the U.S.; Statement of U.S. Senators that Japan should be attacked first; Support of the American public to the British invasion on Europe, due to the fear of Russian predominance in Europe.