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Focuses on several socio-political issues around the world. Decision of France and Great Britain to publish a "blue book" and a "white paper" giving the correspondence and other pertinent documents regarding terms of the Anglo-French naval agreement; Acceptance of the French view that trained reservists are not to be counted as part of official military strength of any nation, by England in exchange for the naval agreement; Intentions of the Nanking government to proceed vigorously toward the abolition of extraterritoriality.

The article focuses on the outlook for U.S. foreign policy. U.S. position for a Pacific Union is explained in relation to priority given to Europe. Decisions subsequent to the release of the China White Paper are presented together with suggestions from Great Britain for order in Southeast Asia. Plans of the International Monetary Fund to restore drawing rights to Marshall Plan countries are examined as well as the signs of solid prosperity in France. The effect of the Commonwealth agreement on trade between India and Great Britain are also evaluated.

Presents socio-political and economic news from the world. Report that the visit of French Premier Pierre Laval to Berlin, Germany, was important because it symbolized the desideratum of European recovery and stability--Franco-German rapprochement; Report that the Scandinavian countries which have followed Great Britain off the gold standard have done so primarily because they were in a similar situation; Report that the principal loss which Great Britain suffers as a result of the abandonment of the gold standard arises, not from the fall, but from the fluctuation in the exchange value of the pound; Efforts to bring peace and conciliation between Japan and China in the wake of the war in Manchuria, China; Cancellation of the biennial meeting of the Institute of Pacific Relations due to the Manchurian episode; Profiles U.S. educator and ichthyologist, David Starr Jordan; Speculation on Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi's visit to Lancashire, England; Report that for many weeks, the civil authorities of Harlan, Kentucky, who are openly allied with the coals mine owners against the striking miners, have exercised a press censorship; Economic situation of Detroit, Michigan and its consequences on public; Criticism of Governor of California for putting the district attorney Charles M. Fickert, on the state pay roll; Criticism of the cutting of trees in the U.S. for constructions on land.

Focuses on the discussion of some peace by U.S. Governor Thomas E. Dewey in his speech given before the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. Suggestion of Dewey for organizing a structure of peace backed by adequate force to prevent future wars, in cooperation with other nations; Analysis of the failure of World Peace I and of dangers to peace by Dewey; Differences in status of Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China in terms of peace, suggested by Dewey.

The article deals with the decision of British firm Jardine, Matheson & Co. to end trading with China. Following the Communists' victory in mainland China, several British firms such as Butterfield & Swire and Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. had the misguided notion that they could do profitable business with Communist leader Mao Tse-tung. The foreign firms faced big taxes, confiscations and bans against layoffs.

Presents news briefs, related to socio-political developments of several nations. Prohibition of sanctions against Italy, until League Council meets on January 20; Declaration of Germany that there would be no air pact between Germany and Great Britain until Germany's lost colonies were restored and the responsibility-for-the-war clause eliminated from the Versailles Treaty; Demonstration of high-school and college students denouncing Japanese aggression and calling upon the central government for active resistance continued throughout China; Significance of the January first, for several political decisions in the U.S.; Plans of the organization National Peace Conference to continue the present embargo on actual arms and munitions to all belligerents; Comments made by journalist William Randolph Hearst, on the link of communists with kidnapping; Resignation of James G. McDonald as League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany; Method used by France to dissolve armed fascist leagues within the framework of democracy; Amendments for :he confiscation of collective as well as individual armaments in France; Efforts of District Central Labor Union of Columbia to fight against reenactment of the teachers' oath law; Employment status of women graduates from the Purdue University.

China's loss of her complete freedom to levy and fix her customs duties within her own territory dates from 1843. Prior to that year, the customs rate was determined by the Chinese Imperial Government and collected by its customs officials at Canton. Under the pressure of force, China was driven to accept a customs rate based upon a uniform 5 per cent ad valorein, both for imports and exports, as part of the Nanking Treaty ratified at Hongkong on June 20, 1843, which thus marked the beginning of the history of China's present tariff system.

The article presents news briefs concerning U.S. and international politics for the week of March 31, 1941. The beginnings of post-war peace planning by Great Britain and the U.S. are discussed. Continuing labor disputes within several U.S. industries and efforts to mediate them are highlighted. The political instability of China is reported on.

This article offers world news briefs. U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson delivered speeches intended to reassure citizens about possible civil liberties violations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Experts suggest that Japan and Russia will agree to end the Chinese war by dividing China between them. British statesman Winston Churchill said that Great Britain had no intention of making war on the Soviet Union.

This article discusses how Leader of the Nazi Party Adolf Hitler is beginning to feel the strain of the war. Additionally, the diplomatic phase of the war extends to the Far East with British garrisons withdrawing from China indicating an understanding between Japan and Great Britain that will negatively impact China.

For months a conspiracy of silence has blanketed the strained relations between China and its Western allies. From time to time there have been hints of Chinese displeasure with the United States and Great Britain, but in the interests of United Nations unity not much has been allowed to leak out regarding the nature of U.S. and British anxiety regarding China. Owing to this official silence, little constructive thinking has been done on how to ease the strain so that China may be made a more effective force in the struggle against Japan and in the peace to follow.

The article presents information on various socio-political developments. The U.S., with all its troops, guns, and transport, is leaving Peking and will soon leave China. The fact rounds out an episode in American diplomacy in the highest degree honorable to the country. Whatever the future of the Chinese problem may be, the U.S. contribution to its solving during the past nine months has been of a sort to quicken the pride of the patriot at the same time that it cheers the heart of the philanthropist. In another development, the exciting debate in Great Britain House of Commons on Thursday night came right on the heels of a widespread lament in England over the decay of Parliamentary oratory.

This section offers news briefs on business and politics in countries other than the U.S. as of March 1938. The Japanese government announced that China is establishing an autonomous state in Central China with Nanking as capital. The signing of a new trade pact between Great Britain and Italy signals the possibility of a more significant agreement between the two countries. Great Britain bought Soviet goods worth 113 million U.S. dollars and sold goods worth 40 million U.S. dollars to Russia in 1937.

Focuses on several political and socioeconomic developments around the world. Speculation regarding consequences of anti-hoarding campaign of U.S. President Herbert Hoover; Effect of Chinese boycott of Japanese goods on Japanese commerce; Rumors of treaty between France and Japan against the Soviet Union; Attitude of the Soviet Union towards the disarmament efforts at international level; Possibility for enactment of the tariff legislation in the British Parliament; Suggestions of Lord Hugh Cecil of Great Britain regarding war debts of Great Britain; Possibility for increase in unemployment predicted by the Emergency Relief Committee of New York City; Findings of the U.S. Children's Bureau's survey regarding family relief in the country; Old-age-pension bill reported by a congressional committee in the U.S.

The article discusses the alliance between Great Britain and Japan, focusing on the period 1902 to 1952. It examines European interests in Asia and reflects on how the relationship between Great Britain and Japan was impacted by relations with other countries, particularly China, Russia, France, and the United States. Topics explored by the author include the Russian occupation of Manchuria, China, Great Britain's "open door" trade policy in China, and international relations in the post-World War II period.

The article focuses on several issues related to the First World War. Nothing more salutary has happened for a long time in high governmental circles than the sentencing of six Bulgarian war ministers to life imprisonment at hard labor, in addition to which they were assessed the tidy fine of 32,700,000,000 lira, some of the war damage done to their country when they put it into the World War on the side of Germany. There are hitches and double hitches about the liquidation of the wartime entanglements of China. The Washington agreements brought about the abandonment of the British-Japanese alliance, which was a relief to China, but the business of getting Great Britain out of Wei-hai-wei and Japan out of Kiao-ehau has moved more slowly.

Presents information on the establishment of the United Nations as an international organization for dealing with aggression. Formation of an alliance for military defense; Authority of countries like Great Britain, Russia, China and the U.S. in the organization; Role of the United Nations in maintaining international peace and security; Support for continuation of nuclear alliance within the framework of the United Nations; Importance of France in establishing world order; Implications that need to be taken care of by the smaller nations before getting into the alliance; Use of the threat of force in maintaining peace.

Discusses problems faced by the United Nations during the World War II. Impact of the war on the people of the member countries of the United Nations; Organization of sources of strength in democratic movements of Latin America; Role of the United Nations in various parts of Asia; Loss of public support in India and China to the United Nations; Move of China towards totalitarianism and imperialism; Comment on the Indian policy of Great Britain; Resolution of All-India Congress Committee in favor of civil disobedience movement; Support of the United Nations by several Moslem League leaders in India; Transformations in the Indian nationalist movement.

The article discusses the concerns of the U.S. in relation to free world trade with Red China as of May 1953. U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy charged the British with the transportation of Communist troops along the China coast, increase in Western exports to Communist China, and 162 free-world ships engaged in trade with China. The British contend that trade has been on nonstrategic items and that a trade embargo would endanger Hong Kong. Many Americans insist that any trade strengthens their economy.

This article focuses on the socio-political issues. The Siege of Tientsin has been eased slightly by British capitulation to Japan on the question of discussing the broader aspects of British-Japanese relationships. Although the Japanese extremists appear to have given ground in permitting the conference dealing with the issue to be held in Tokyo rather than Tientsin, Great Britain retreated to the extent of agreeing to discuss the surrender of the four Chinese. J. Monroe Smith, late President of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana who borrowed $500,000 on faked credit of the University and lost $430,000 of it speculating in cotton, has given himself up in Canada.

Focuses on the San Francisco Conference that discussed the deadlock over the right of the Big Five to veto in the United Nations Security Council. Information on the five men who share the credit for breaking the deadlock; The paramount objective of American foreign policy must be to continue and solidify the American alliance with Great Britain, Soviet Union, China and France in the postwar era; Statement that the right to veto would not apply to the power of the Security Council to discuss or consider any dispute or situation that might threaten the peace and security of any one of its members; The devising of an operating economic structure within the world security charter may in final perspective be appraised as the principal achievement of this meeting.

Focuses on the situations that initiated the second world war based on information from the summary chapter in the book "The History of the Nineteen-thirties." Information about peace treaties that established unjust settlements and initiated more wars; Effect of the industrial depression on various countries; Loss that accompanied the boycott of Japanese goods by China; Economic condition in Japan; Military assistance provided by Great Britain and the U.S. to Japan.

Focuses on several socio-political issues around the world. Dispute between the Soviet Union and China regarding the control over railways; Views that the League of Nations hesitates to intervene in affairs involving any major power; Analysis of the decision of the British Labor government to resume its relations with the Soviet Union; Beginning of unionization in the textile industry in Southern states as result of problems of textile workers leading to strikes; Information about court case against fifteen textile striking worker for murder of Gastonia's chief of police; Comments on views of the Radicals regarding the public opinion issue; Concerns regarding death of twenty-three people due to collision of two British submarines.

The article presents information about various political developments taking place all over the world. Great Britain has turned a flying somersault in its Chinese policy and come out for virtual recognition of the Canton Government and admission of China's right to levy customs taxes in excess of the treaty rates. Hitohito, Mounting the Throne, will be the first Emperor of Japan who has donned trousers and visited Europe. Oswald Mosley's election as the Labor M.P. from Smethwick is another triumph for that sort of fairness which is thought of as being peculiarly British.

Comments on the interest which the British are taking in Free China's political institutions, economy and military potential. Visit of an officer of British Friends of Free China Association to China; Response of the Chinese government to the arrival of British group headed by retired diplomat Alwyne Ogden; Significance of the interest in Free China.

The article focuses on the reactions to the Koje incident in South Korea involving Americans and the British problems over China investments and Korean War. It presents the opinions on Koje incident of London's "News Chronicle," Clement Attlee, the leader of England's Socialists, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The article also reports the abandonment of England of its investment in China after the Communists take over and the dispatch by Prime Minister Churchill of Defense Minister Lord Alexander to a fact finding mission to Korea.

Focuses on the controversy between Great Britain and Japan over the blockade of Tientsin. Reason for the controversy between Japan and Great Britain; Demand of Japan to stop lending money and transition of supplies and munitions to China; Fact that Japan wants active aid as a price for cessation of blackmail; Suggestion that Great Britain should become her silent partner in trade and the future exploitation of eastern Asia instead of maintaining her historical independent position; Calculation of Japan based upon an estimate of Great Britain's power to resist; Information on the basic idea of the treaty in regard to Tientsein; Statement that the dilemma arises in the first place from the fact that neither Great Britain nor the United States has in the past acted logically to fulfill the implications of the Open Door policy and the Nine-Power Pacific Treaty.

The article discusses the growing rift between the U.S. and Great Britain over Asian policy. In Great Britain, however, most people feel that Americans have ignored the two big differences between the Chinese action and the Japanese action in 1933. Chinese intervention in the Korean War is considered as clear a case of aggression, as was Japanese intervention in China in 1933. To appease the Chinese Communists would only encourage them to overrun other small nations in the Far East in the future. Moreover, Chinese are not permitted representation in the United Nations. They are not granted a position of equality with other nations or the right to state their ease at all times at the bar of world opinion.

Presents excerpts from articles about various socio-political issues in several countries published in journals and newspapers. Criticism made by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill against the ELAS forces in Greece; Scarcity of cars in European cities; Statement made by Liang Han-chan, the outgoing Minister of Information of China, about the military situation in China.

Presents letters to the editor. Comments on the bombardments of the Taku forts; Discussion on the strength and safety of a nation; Focus on an appeal made by a British Member of Parliament on a triple motive for China.

Presents letters to the editor on articles published in previous issues. International policy of the U.S. towards Cuba; Foreign commerce in China; Political developments in Great Britain.

The article reports on the growing interest by British business in the bright industrial prospects in China after the Chinese Ministry of Industries unveiled a 10-year industrial development plan.

Presents several letters to the editor. Effects of civil war on China; Expression of public opinion in Russia; Review of a book on labor conditions in Great Britain.

Presents letters to the editor on several political issues. Comments on the Chinese communist regime; Comments on the coverage of British affairs in the American press; Comments on the article "Attlee in Peking."

This section offers international news briefs on the business sector. In Great Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson is anticipated to hold the spring election in the hope to increase Labor's majority in the House of Commons. President Fidel Castro of Cuba has supported Russia in its dispute with Red China by accusing the Chinese of blackmail, treason and economic aggression. Western Europe has change its diplomatic style to agree to disagree approach as manifested in the Luxembourg accord that ended the deadlock of the Common Market.

The article reports on the efforts of British shipbuilders to engage business with China.