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The article presents a study on the amount news space alloted to foreign news and the types, pattern and flow of foreign news disseminated by Arab daily newspapers. The study uses content analysis and quantitative analysis of sample newspaper. Results reveal that over 50% of the news in all papers is political and the U.S. as well as Russia are given the greatest amount of coverage, followed by China and Great Britain. It adds that the direction of Arab coverage of foreign news can be expalined by various criteria, such as the attitude of foreign country to the Arab-Israeli problem.

The article focuses on the attitudes of British press towards German statesman Otto von Bismarck and his role in European affairs. It mentions that the attitude of non-daily British press concerning Bismarck was dependent on the continental role that was played by Prussia, Germany, saying that the country played negligible role in 1860s. It states that it was not surprising that the non-daily press has completely overlooked the appointment of Bismarck as the Prussian Minister-President on September 22, 1862. Moreover, it adds that the myopia of the non-daily press concerning Bismarck during his period are demonstrated in the article "Under the Limes: Pen-and-Ink Photographs from Berlin" in the July 1863 issue of the periodical "Blackwood's."

The article discusses the community work in Britain, 1974. The author has reviewed the work of social work agencies whose workers are busy with one of another aspect of community development, community organization, or community action at a local level. Most professionals who regard themselves as community workers, or who have been officially appointed as such, are generally either social workers with a professional training in social work, or people employed in vocational training, adult education or youth work. In the present rather chaotic situation of community work in Great Britain and Ireland, it is worth remembering two questions that are very often forgotten. The grand decisions about regional economic development, the questions concerning the exploitation of natural resources (too often for short-term profit), those concerning the granting of investment funds these are the decisions which exercise the biggest influence on the future of citizens. Such decisions must be constantly reviewed and supervised in a democratic and vigilant way.

An essay is presented on the experiences of Germany and Great Britain in reinforcing broadcast material in the field of radio drama through publication. It says that radio drama audiences in Great Britain were under the influence of television and popular music while German radio drama reached their audiences due to the availability of radio sets. It mentions the stages in the development of Hörspiele such as discussion related to radio and the publication of texts of magazines and books.

The article states that Australia owes its greatness to its resourcefulness. As in other ventures, social work developed in the first half of the twentieth century by using ideas worked out in other places such as the former great powers Great Britain and the U.S. It was economical to borrow from the findings in these countries rather than to study indigenous development. Clearly any research money in Australia had to be used for the production of war weapons, oil and garbage. The influence of nineteenth-century Britain was superseded by that of twentieth-century U.S. and part of the overall Americanization of Australia was ritual going into retreat at Smith College and University of Michigan, by university faculty members. Some prestige seemed to be attached to knowing more about the American scene than the local one.

This article is directed at improving the sociological study of religion in British society. The discussion presented in this article has been directed at rectifying the major deficiencies in the study of religion in British society. The authors have in effect advocated an overall strategy of what might be called co-ordinated eclecticism, a strategy which would combine relatively reactive and relatively non-reactive techniques in both historical and contemporary contexts. It is important to mitigate the liabilities of the official, received religious-cultural approach to the study of religion. To be sure, a number of sociologists of religion have argued in similar ways about the pitfalls of this approach. On the other hand sociologists have not as yet pursued alternatives in terms of empirical research, as opposed to speculation. It is also important to develop more interest in the study of societal religious systems. The concentration on doctrinal traditions has kept the present analysis within the very narrow confines. It is also vital to know more about the historical profile of religion in single societies. In this way, one can begin to comprehend the overall dynamics and logical of categories of thought, symbiotic cognitive patterns, and so on.

This article examines the role of secularization in the decline of religion as a major aspect of modern society in Great Britain. It seems that an underlying premise in most studies is that secular trends have been firmly established in the post Industrial Revolution era and that this is the context in which the role and strength of religion must be considered in contemporary Britain. Industrialization, and in particular the attendant phenomena of urbanization and mobility have been regarded as the chief factors causing religious attrition. Where residual elements of religion still persist as in the case of church marriages and baptisms, the explanation for their persistence is given in terms of the useful function that religion performs as in the case of the marriage ceremony, or in terms of prevailing superstitious beliefs as in the case of baptism. But it is argued that on the whole the influence of religion has declined, for it is unable to compete successfully with other institutions of modern society.

The article provides information on the January 1974 issue of the journal "International Social Work." It includes three articles in French; two of them are reprinted from other journals. One of them is the distinguished article by Etienne Berthet, Director-General of the International Children's Center, with its striking combination of idealism and realism. It will indeed require great efforts and great sacrifices by more fortunate countries before the poorer countries of the world can even approach a balance between expending resources and expanding population which would provide the conditions for healthy child development as outlined by Berthet. M. Caimo of Louvain, Belgium reports about medical social work in Belgium and discusses its findings, in an attempt to clarify the essential functions of this special branch of social work and to bring the practice of that country into line with modern developments in the U.S. and Great Britain. Richard Nann and Henry Maas, in their article, brings back the question of education for social work.