Having absorbed the Harvard Post-War journalistic ambitions in the form of a "broadened editorial program," the flesh-colored June "Threshold" is largely restricted to discussions of how to win the peace. But in playing up its political side the I. S. S. organ has not entirely lost its former spirit. Continuing "to foster non-political student writing," the editors have suffered obscure poetry and bad cartoons to remain in the new environment, and weighty deliberations are illustrated with bedraggled rag-dolls that could have been drawn by Munroe Leaf's kid sister.

David Petegorsky, a recent Columbia graduate and already an established author, has contributed the issue's most thought-provoking article in "What's Wrong With the Planners?" Maintaining that intelligent post-war planning must be based upon the abolition of national sovereignty, he points out the imperialist basis of Federal Union and the superficial character of "Leagues." Except for a poorly disguised faith in Soviet leadership, he convincingly argues that lasting democracy must be founded on the inevitable but widely ignored tendencies to economic collectivism and political internationalism.

Arthur Pope, Director of the National Committee on Morale, lives up to his title in "Russia at the Peace Table." Subtly putting the democracies on the defensive, he is sure that not only will we need have no fear of the Miraculous Mudjiks, but they need have no fear of us, as we are gradually seeing the light. A more reserved optimism is shown by Professor Kotschig of Smith, who discussed "Educational Reconstruction." He describes the encouraging abundance of natives, exiles, and hyphenated Americans who are qualified to reconstruct the minds of Europe's enslaved out of the post-war chaos (a chaos which Kotsching is the sole contributor to foresee.) However his belief in German willingness'to learn strikes an all-too-familiar note.

Hoh-Cheung Mui, of Columbia, and Karl Beran of Prague's English College relieve the theoretical atmosphere with repertorial articles that are ample reply to any charges of "hot air" that may be levelled against this post-war forum. The active anti-Nazi cooperation of Czech and Polish students, as well as the fear of Oriental liberals of the native reactionaries who may oppress them when the foreign oppressors leave, is not well known, but certainly worth knowing.

John Ballantine '42 contributes a boldly reasoned article, amply supported with facts, on the post-war industrial situation, and the adjustments that will be necessary to avoid economic collapse. Perhaps the tritest of the articles is the opening one by Editor Irwin Ross '40, who naively thinks that an allied declaration of the rights of man would win the Burmese knife-slingers over to our side.