INTERNATIONAL: Little Men, What Now?

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> Chiang Kai-shek told the People's Political Council: "No difficulties or sacrifices must deter us from the fulfillment of our duties as one unit of the forces of the United Nations. ... It is not for us boastfully to talk of China's right to a position of 'leadership' among the Asiatic countries. We shall rather regard it as our responsibility to treat the peoples of Asia as equals to help and support."

> Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles declared before the New York Herald Tribune forum on public affairs: "It seems to me that the first essential [of world peace] is the continuous and rapid perfecting of a relationship between the United Nations so that this military relationship may be further strengthened by the removal of all semblance of disunity or of suspicious rivalry. . . ."

> Major Krechet wrote in Moscow's Izvestia: "How will the Fascists be able to repay for the losses of thousands upon thousands of Russian families? The Hitlerites should be annihilated by the dozens, by the thousands, like rats. . . ."

> The Emir of Trans-Jordania issued a public statement: "The Senusi (secret Moslem sect) are the rightful overlords of Libya by virtue of ancestral ties and religious leadership. We Arabs never forget the national war of the Senusi against Italy. . . ."

For the U.S. and all the world the problems were great. They might be insoluble. They were not likely to be a bore.