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The article reports that the Ontario government has signed deals with the U.S. and Canadian newsprint companies for the establishment and expansion of pulp and paper enterprises on the north shore of Lake Superior.

This article focuses on various political issues in Great Britain and the U.S. Hardly any one who recollects the principal struggles of recent years between workmen and their employers can have failed to be stuck with the extent to which the Homestead laborers have obtained the sympathy of the classes socially above them. The letter from the financial correspondent which appeared in the previous issue of the journal, describing the apprehension felt in that city about the effects of silver laws, showed a certain confusion in regard to our silver paper money, which is shared to a large extent in this country. London constituencies, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Salford, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton, being all the places which, under the existing distribution of seats, return more than two members each, will be represented in the new parliament.

The article focuses on issues related to international relations. Stabilization of the franc has brought with it in France an unemployment crisis of exceptional severity. France, cruelly impoverished by the war and the heavy cost of rebuilding the devastated regions placed upon her as a result of Germany's long default, has nevertheless enjoyed for a certain period an illusory ease which, sooner or later, was bound to disappear. This artificial prosperity she owed to inflation. Even during the war, France was forced to issue an enormous amount of paper money to meet expenses which were essentially destructive and sterile from an economic point of view.

The article focuses on prevailing political conditions in the U.S. and around the world, as of October 10, 1867. The news from Europe seems to indicate pretty clearly that the world is on the verge of what diplomatists call grave events. There has been, as the world knows, sufficient feeling of chagrin on the part of France and sufficient suspicion on the part of Germany, ever since the battle of Sadowa, to put the peace of the Continent in danger. The act of Congress known as the Legal-Tender act, because it authorized the issue of $150,000,000 of paper money, declared to be a legal tender in payment of all debts, also authorized the issue of $500,000,000 of six per cent bonds, redeemable after five years at the pleasure of the U.S. and absolutely payable after twenty years from their date.

This section offers business-related news briefs from around the world as of February 1924. The formation of the world's largest paper company involves the merger of the Belgo-Canadian Paper Company, the Laurentide Company, the St. Maurice Paper Company and the St. Lawrence Paper Mills. The British Labor government has recognized the government of Soviet Russia. The first Expert Committee has transferred its seat of operations from Paris to Berlin.

This article presents brief descriptions of various socio-political developments and issues as of January 7, 1886. It first discusses the speech of Senator William M. Evarts at the Merchants' Association dinner, which was mainly occupied with the silver question in context of paper currency. Periodical publishers and other journalism groups' concern was to favor international bi-metallism, and quite another thing to favor the repeal of the compulsory-coinage law. The article further reports that the Pacific Coast delegation in the Congress has agreed upon a new anti-Chinese bill, which is intended to make it still more difficult than it is now for a Mongolian to surmount the wall of exclusion winch has been built against his race.

The article discusses the publication of papers belonging to the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, by the "New York Times." The publication of papers was surrounded by debate that whether the press could be faulted for not pinpointing key Administration actions much earlier. Freelance Journalist Walter Pincus, in New York magazine, accused the Washington press corps for not taking high officials to task on Indochina policy.

The article focuses on the issue regarding the suspended visit of Cambodia Prince Norodom Sihanouk in the Soviet Union in 1965. It mentions the event in North Korea, during Sihanouk's state visit, when a Soviet ambassador allegedly met and praised him, but gave him an old paper stating that the Soviet leaders were busy to welcome him on the appointed November 7, 1965 visit in Russia. It also relates on the previous state visit made by Sihanouk in Red China, which is in conflict with Russia.

The article presents the 2nd series of Foreign Affairs Secretary John Jay's federalist papers about developing a union of thirteen states in the U.S. It includes letter from Congress Secretary Charles Thomson regarding Jay's appointment by the House of Congress as secretary of Foreign Affairs, and his negotiations with John Adams, an England minister.

The article reports on the criticisms to the U.S. Democratic Party-sponsored book "The Liberal Papers" in 1962. It states that a batch of Democratic intellectuals collaborated to create the new volume about foreign policy and defense issues in the country. However, Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen and House Minority Leader Charles A. Halleck argued that if the proposal in the book will be implemented, it will pose a threat to the country's security and economy.

Reports that the United States has won its third paper battle at the United Nations. Approval of a modified "Little Assembly"; Opposition of the Soviet bloc to the plan and promise to boycott the assembly; Design of the "Little Assembly" to by-pass the Security Council veto; Dealing with political situations referred to it by the Assembly; Subjects under consideration by the Security Council; Need for the consent of the states involved.