The article presents information about the shape of things around the world, as of October 07, 1950. The sudden collapse of North Korean resistance in the south after the capture of Seoul and the brilliant flanking operation carried through by the United Nations forces has not ended the Korean struggle. Sober analysis of the Eighty-First Congress, temporarily in adjournment until after the elections, does not strongly support U.S. President Harry S. Truman's public comment that he was generally satisfied with its work. Yugoslavia's economic troubles have entered the acute stage and may lead to political crisis unless Western help is forthcoming in the near future. One of the most interesting developments of recent days has been the tendency of non-Labor observers to warn Great Britain's trade-union leaders not to dismiss the opposition to them as Communist.
