Editorials.

The editor, in this article, discusses the matter related to geopolitics. With the adherence of Yugoslavia to a modified form of the Tripartite Pact, German ruler Adolf Hitler has won another diplomatic success. But thanks to a spontaneous outburst of popular opposition, of a kind which is thrilling to see emerge in the browbeaten Balkans, his victory is only partial and may very well prove a Pyrrhic one. The personnel and set-up of the National Defense Mediation Board represent a victory for Sidney Hillman, associate director of the OPM for the labor movement, and for the New Deal. It was conceived as a means of stemming the growing reactionary drive for legislative curbs on the right to strike, and friends of labor have every assurance that it will not tarn into a strike-breaking instrument.