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The article presents news briefs and commentary on international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of July 3, 1961. Negotiations and relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over government in divided Germany are analyzed. The personnel profile of the members of the Central Intelligence Agency is discussed. Evidences pointing towards a possible famine in China are presented.

The article reports on East-West trade and the Free World's interest in Japan as part of a military defense strategy. There is concern about the deficit in Japan's sterling account and balance of payments in 1953. Opposition to Japanese trade with countries in the Communist Bloc is due to the West's trade sanctions and the possibility that economic or political cooperation with communist China could result in a security threat to the United States. Topics include the Japanese export program and American economic aid to Japan.

The article examines the United States' restrictive trade policy with Communist-dominated countries. The purpose of the American embargo policy is to stop all trade between East and West, but Western European countries are reluctant to join. The Western bloc are concerned with: traditional trading patterns that make countries dependent on trade with the East; trade with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that could alleviate the dollar gap and allow raw materials to be imported from non-dollar areas; and East-West trade that can prevent "price softness" and heavy inventories as well as strengthen commodity prices. Topics include the 1949 Export Control Act, trade with China, and contraband activity.

The editor, in this article, gives his literary concerns on political issues. The cold war has become a cold stalemate, freezing the world in a posture of static belligerence, strangling trade, forcing prices up and-except in America-wages down and the peoples have neither the impetus of combat to make them endure nor the satisfactions of peace to encourage them to labor and progress. In voicing his deep abhorrence for the 'blood trade" with China, Senator usually manages to make it clear that he regards the British as the prime culprits. Yet direct exports from West Germany to China have risen to $18,100,000 for the first nine months of this year, while Britain's exports to China for the same period total only $13,440,000.

The article describes the peace terms for the Far East. In the Far East, the cold war has been blown hot and the two sides of Communists and democratic world have met in open conflicts. Three wars have raged along the coasts and frontiers of China, the attempts now being made to settle the most important of them, the war in Korea, raises the question whether any such peace settlement can endure unless the other two conflicts can be brought to an end. Peace in Korea alone would also leave the Chinese free to increase their aid to Viet Minh and achieve outright victory in Indo-China.

The article describes about the visit of the author to Prague and Peking. Slogans about American aggression shrieks at every street corner. The struggle for the body of Czechoslovakia still goes on in this no man's land of the cold war. The newly constructed Moscow University will give admission to 6,000 technical students. Factory chimneys towered against the sky and construction seemed to be going on everywhere in Russian cities. Inflation and food supplies were two of the biggest problems facing the Chinese after the revolution. He describes about land reforms, economic conditions and judiciary executions in the Communist China.

Presents information on the Chinese revolution and discusses its impact on the U.S. Statement that it signals the opening of a new phase in the Cold War, aimed not at the destruction of the U.S. but at its isolation; Details of the history of Chinese revolution; Role played by China in the first Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in Cairo; Peking's interest in the underprivileged masses of the rest of the world; Significance of the flow of political delegation from underdeveloped world to China; Call for persistent struggles against the U.S. imperialism by the press and Chinese political leaders.

This article focuses on the Red China's struggle for respectability and recent exploitation of Hong Kong's Mercantilism by it. Because of its exposed position, Hong Kong, China, is sensitive every policy innuendo affecting the mainland. Hong Kong's preoccupation is trade and especially trade with Red China. The colony's economic barometer flutters nervously with every shift in the cold war policy line. Recently, the immediate result of the British announcement, for the lifting of the ban on shipments of rubber from Malaya to China, was a bad case of jitters. Some Hong Kong traders shared the buoyancy of those in Singapore who bid up rubber futures. In early June 1956, after the removal of the Malayan rubber restrictions, editors of the newspaper, "China Mail," conceded that Red China would hardly be willing to settle for half a loaf.

This article reports that the cold war appears now to have entered a new phase, marked by fissures and schisms in both the Communist and Western blocs. The new phase offers to the U.S. unprecedented opportunity for bold diplomatic moves which could ease world tensions and lessen the danger of thermonuclear war between China and the Soviet Union. At the same time, if the opportunity is muffed, it is a phase that may turn out to be more dangerous than any that preceded it. Meanwhile, the growing split between the Soviet Union and China should help destroy a favorite American cold-war myth.

This article describes the historical facts behind the rift between China and the Soviet Union. Nearly years ago most news columns dealt with Sino-Russian relations throughout the world and in the under-developed countries. Since that time, these relations have become more complex and more strained. The young alliance between Peking, China and Moscow, Soviet Union has been rapidly transforming itself first into competition, then into rivalry. The two capitals have directly opposed attitudes toward the underdeveloped countries and the problems of coexistence with the West.

The article discusses developments that are of importance to the business sector as of December 1962. The author says the Russians' withdrawal from the Cold War is an indication of their duplicity and weakness. He adds that the installation of missiles indicates Russians' lack of sufficient weapons. He acknowledges the support given by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies. Also discussed is the Communist Chinese assault against India and its impact on Communist aspirations.

The article deals with the concept of cold peace and cold war in Europe in 1952. Cold war is defined as a hostility, which is not enough to stir a World War III, while cold peace is cited as a sustained truce that involves no settlement. Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov accused the U.S. government of making preparations for launching a new world war and creating plots against their English and French partners. Also noted is a sense of cold war that emerged at the Asian and Pacific Peace Conference held by Communists in Peking, China.

The Geneva conference will open in an atmosphere more lugubrious than when it first was announced. At the outset the thought of Geneva gave hope to those disappointed with the meager results of the Berlin meeting, especially the failure to resolve the German question. Unfortunately the cold war intruded into the preparations for Geneva conference. There was an academic dispute as to whether China had received a first-class or second-class invitation. At Berlin, East Germany, the protocol experts had come up with a magic formula which, so far as the West was concerned, caused China to disappear.

This article focuses on the meeting that was held to lay down a policy, which would either settle or extend the cold war. The opening week of the General Assembly came up to expectations. From the first day the meetings were lively and interesting, there was a sense of the gravity of the moment, recognition on both sides that a false move would have more far-reaching consequences and be harder to correct than had been the case in previous Assemblies. As was inevitable, the question of China's representation was the first item.

The article discusses the developments of the Cold War in 1953. Russian Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov backed an offer from China to settle the prisoner of war issue. The government under Russian Premier Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov implemented a price cut in consumer goods resulting in a reduction of eight percent in their cost of living, and promised a more lenient criminal code. The policy shift may be in response to the military strength of the Western Alliance.

The article reports on the cold war between Russia and China. It mentions that the nature and size of the break up can shape the course of the cold war and the strategists from the West have studied the evidence to help function its dimensions. It notes that despite the deepness and reality of the split, both countries are Communist and are dedicated to the same determined end winning of the world to Marxism.

The article discusses the latest developments in the international business and political arena as of February 8, 1964. It reports that the moves by nationalistic countries like France and Communist China to diffuse the cold war against the Western countries have reduced the risk of nuclear war. The resurgence of nationalistic attitude, meanwhile, resulted in anti-U.S. demonstration in Ghana and Cyprus. In the economic side, Great Britain decided to approve the 4,000 bus order from Cuba despite the objection by the U.S.

The article reports on the call of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco for the West to impose an immediate embargo on all trade with Russia and her satellites to win the Cold War, in an interview with newspaper editor Roy Howard in June 1954. The Far Eastern experts in the U.S. State Department support the proposal. A specialist argued that China will be significantly affected by an embargo due to her dependence on British and U.S. machinery. But policymakers for Europe are said to be reluctant to support the plan.

The article reports on the international relations between China and France which will affect the Cold War. It states that the foreign relations will enable France to build a world power position over the U.S. It is inferred that the alliance will improve the reputation of China's Mao Zedong over Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Krushchev in the development of world communism.

The article discusses the negotiation between the U.S. and Red China over the Formosa crisis. The U.S. needs to create a formula for maintaining peace on the offshore islands. Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung reiterated calls for talks with the U.S. and U.S. Ambassador to Poland Jacob D. Beam has been instructed to seek an early meeting with Chinese Ambassador Wang Ping Nan. An agreement is also proposed by which the Chinese Communists would suspend military operations against the islands.

Expresses opinion on how Professor Hans W. Gatzke presented events that have happened from World War II in the 1940s to the 1950s, in the book "The Present in Perspective." Objective of the book; Views on the second chapter which was about the cold war; Explanation for the fall of China; Opinion on how Gatzke manipulates national mood through the book.

The article comments on U.S. foreign policy and the peacekeeping initiatives led by President Richard Nixon in 1972. Key issues discussed include state visits by Nixon to the Soviet Union and China, U.S. diplomatic efforts during the Cold War and the issues' implications for international relations and world politics.