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The article presents a typical week with the Baltimore Sun, one of the best-written newspapers in the U.S. The newspaper has its great professional fastidiousness to protect it from Liberal ideology. But Liberalism does leak into its columns--primarily in its foreign correspondence which goes by the Liberal faith; to wit: the Communists are wrongheaded and unpleasant, but also twenty feet tall. A dispatch from Bonn to the Sun carries an interview with Press Chief Sergeyev of the newly established USSR Embassy. Sergeyev does not like the climate in Bonn, Germany; Russia was much healthier; the Bonn streets are so badly lit that evening walks are unsafe. The anti-Communist German press has speculated on the Russians' choosing an Embassy site close by the conduit carrying Bonn's telephone trunk lines; but, finds the Sun correspondent. An accompanying Bonn dispatch to the Sun tells of a visit to Socialist headquarters, where Ollenhauer criticized Germany's military preparations. The Sun is one of the select group of papers with a Moscow correspondent; and no correspondent who writes persistently unfriendly stories can hope to remain in Moscow.

Presents news briefs related to politics from around the world. Discussion on the political campaign of Paul O'Dwyer for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York; Results of the recent German elections; Information that the Institute of Economic Affairs in London has rendered important service in the interest of economic good sense through a series of publications, principally the Hobart Papers.

Presents news briefs on economic and political developments taking place around the world. Discussion of the American Bar Association's Special Committee on Communist Tactics, Strategy and Objectives that has been a model of civic responsibility under the guidance of Peter Campbell Brown; Stand of Senator Wayne Morse, who says that he would like to see a minimum wage exceeding $1.25 an hour extended to 22 million people within the next few years in the U.S.; Concerns expressed on Communist-promoted crises throughout the world, in the World Eucharistic Congress, held in Munich, Germany.

Offers a look at issues surrounding the proposed creation of a buffer zone in Central Europe as of April 1957. Divisions of the European area; Speculations over the goal of the Soviet Union in neutralizing Germany; Proposals for a demilitarized zone that have been made since 1952.

Traces the transition of the struggle between left and right political divisions into a struggle between totalitarianism and democracy. Origin of the left and right political divisions; Similarities between fascism and communism; Definition of totalitarianism; Affinity between Nazis and Communists according to Adolf Hitler.

Focuses on challenges for the German theologians to make their Church relevant to the twentieth-century man. Role of German theologians in the intellectual development of world Protestantism; Concern of the modern theology to make Christianity relevant to layman and in encouraging the laity to play an active role in the church and theology; Steps taken by a group of people to officially drop their membership from state churches and asking that their children be excused from religious instruction in school; Support of laymen to the "No other Gospel!" movement; Consciousness of the Confessional Movement in defending the heritage of evangelical Protestantism in Germany.

Presents experience of a former citizen of the U.S. in a prison camp, who became a Communist activist in his later years. Author's realization that the communists for whom he was working were semi-fascists in their ideologies; Criticism of the Soviet policy of entente with the Nazi Germany; Information regarding the Soviet Union's initiative to install puppet government in the Communist China.

Focuses on the social and political condition in Sweden. Increase in the industrial productivity of Sweden since 1900; Report that the wages of women in industry have more than trebled since 1900; View that although Sweden prides itself on being a rationalist society, Swedish life is full of irrationalities; Myth of Spanish people regarding summer; Description of the Forest Cemetery at Stockholm; Information on Sweden's relations with Germany.

Provides information on the Tenth World Youth Festival held in Berlin, Germany in summer 1973. Topics covered; Beliefs supported by the mass demonstrations during the festival; Organizations that participated in the festival.

Discusses the implications of the proliferation of communist propaganda for the Free University in West Berlin, Germany. Rebellion of radical students of the university; Impact on appointments in faculty and department councils; Ways by which students of the university are indoctrinated with Marxist principles.

Focuses on the position of the National Democratic Party (NDP) in Germany. Information that the Party got less than 8 per cent of the Bavarian vote; Composition of the Party by neo-Nazis with the unifying force called anti-Americanism; Comment that the NDP, in other words, is a preliminary gathering together of those Germans who brood over the unreliability of American support or protection; Statistics of American investments in Germany.

Informs that to West Berliners, the Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, symbolizes the weakening American will to resist Communist aggression in various countries. Surveys on movement of the trend from its previous confidence in the Western Allies to a new negative attitude of much distrust; Failure of General Lucius D. Clay to implement his political-military policies; Reason for his departure from Berlin; Outbalance of fund-raising function of Clay's Berlin mission.

Focuses on the anti-Germanism campaign in the U.S. Opinion that this campaign will only benefit Communists whose postwar strategy in Europe has been to forestall German rearmament, and can also lead to anti-Americanism campaign in Germany; Impact of the series of Swastika daubings which began in Cologne on Americans; Contribution of the book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," by William L. Shirer, towards the relationship between the two counties; Efforts made by the Soviet Union to strengthen suspicion and hostility against the Germans.

Presents information on the business of promoting protests related to various problems prevailing in the world. Lack of concrete object of attack due to which great deal of high-spirited indignation has been running to waste; Report that British trade union leaders have nothing to say about the Affluent Society; Discussion of conditions of various theaters in Germany and Great Britain.

Provides an account of the Germans' experience with inflation and how it affected the country's economy since the First World War to the 1920s. Factors affecting inflation; Growth of money in circulation during the war; Policy of the government in the business sector and its impact on inflation throughout 1921 and 1922.

Describes journalist Walter Lippmann as an appeaser and a defeatist whenever the U.S. has been faced with a demonstration of Communist aggression. Definitions of appeaser and defeatist; Mistake he committed in his judgment of Germany; His stance on Red China's bombardment of the Quemoy group of offshore islands.

Presents news briefs on various political issues and events in the U.S. and abroad as of September 13, 1958. Message delivered by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to U.S. workers on Labor Day 1958; Race riots which took place in England; Decision of Ludwig Erhard, Economics Minister of West Germany, to impose embargo on further import of coal.

Presents a commentary on political news worldwide, as of July 1956. Step taken by U.S. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson that allegedly ignores the constitutional provisions that vest in Congress the power and duty to determine the country's military establishment; Support of U.S. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell for union shops; Opposition to German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's approach to Moscow.

Examines the political stance of Willy Brandt, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany and its implications for Europe and the U.S. Relations with the Communists and the British labor government; Stance on the presence of the U.S. garrison in West Germany; Outlook on the legitimization of East Germany.

Relates the author's experience in attending the 1970 Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. Theme of the celebration; Characteristics of the Munich beer; Number of visitors who participated in this year's Oktoberfest; Statistics on the Oktoberfest Queen.

Discusses issues related to U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy's address to the World Youth Congress in East Berlin, Germany. Reference to his brother's visit to West Berlin as President of the U.S.; Speculations on what Kennedy will do in East Berlin; Possible issues that Kennedy could address in the Congress; Question on whether he will address the meeting of fellow traveling youths from all over the Communist world.

Highlights the challenges faced by Germans due to the overnight erection of the Wall between East and West Berlin. Information on how 77-years-old German businessman Peter Lohman was trapped behind the Wall; Financial insecurity that he is faced with in East Berlin; Reason why his wife is not entitled to the welfare aid in West Berlin; Resentment shown by a landlady in Berlin for the way old people are treated in East Berlin; Portion of the East German population that is over 65; Reason why some old people have been systematically evicted from their dwellings; Psychological problems posed by the government's decision to let old people join their families on the other side of the Wall; Reaction of foreigners to the Wall.

Presents information on an incident related to the author, who was delivered to the Paris police by his comrades on one February night, in Munich, Germany. Fact that a commando group of French secret service agents, called barbouzes had been sent to Munich to capture the author; Concern of the author about his family in relation to the present condition; Discussion of an event that took place in a hotel after the author had dined with his friend; Details of the plan used by the secret agents for kidnapping the author.

Focuses on the political conditions in Europe. Confusion among Europeans on the ideologies of American political parties; Unrest in Great Britain and France about the continued demand for restitution; Lack of imagination in the Western protests; Problems faced by German statesmen.

Focuses on the role of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which he can play in bridging the gap between England and France and Germany. Need for him to minimize differences and tensions between the Atlantic powers; Focus on the failure of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's honest brokerage; Awareness of the President of the Third Force's threat to American paramountcy in Atlantic affairs by certain evidences of its hard and fast nature; Information on a personal note from the French President to Eisenhower, warning the President that the British Prime Minister had been trapped by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev; Report that the note contained a subtle intimation that the Continental Great Powers are not prepared to accept the guidance of the Anglo-Saxon Powers against their plain interest; Views on Macmillan's role as apologist for Khrushchev; Need for the President to join his polemical talents with those of Germany and France for the health of the West.

Focuses on the stir created by French statesman Charles de Gaulle's speech of March 25, 1959, in which he courageously extolled the Franco-German friendship and also referred to the eastern border of Germany. Ignorance of the speech in Germany; Views of a federal government spokesman that President de Gaulle's insistence that Germany's present borders are to be considered permanent, must have been an allusion to her legal boundaries; Assumption that by the actual border de Gaulle meant the actual border between the German Democratic Republic and the Democratic Popular Republic of Poland; Issues concerning the demarcation line between Germany and Poland; Questions concerning de Gaulle's speech.

Presents information on military conditions and long-term prospects of the armed forces in Germany. Discussion of the testimony of General Maxwell D. Taylor, Army Chief of Staff, and General Thomas D. White, Chief of Staff of the Air Force released by the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee; Report that the German military leaders are aware of the seriousness of Russian Premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev's challenge on Berlin, Germany; View of Taylor in the case of a European ground war, the country can deal with the situation without resorting to general nuclear warfare; Concern of Taylor that they should visualize the problem the Soviets must contemplate in any military operation in East Germany.

Presents news briefs related to various political issues around the world. Name of possible replacement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas after his retirement; Reason due to which State Department security official Otto Otepka turned to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee for help; Order for an investigation into the background of writer Victor Lasky by politician Robert F. Kennedy; Opposition of any actions which would help the Soviet Union out of its economic difficulties by Chancellor of Germany Konrad Adenauer.

Presents information on the German journal "Der Spiegel," published by Rudolf Augstein. Aim with which the journal is published; Description of Augstein's personality and his adherence to the picture of a Prussian-led Germany; Assailment of Christianity and the Catholic faith by Augstein; Details about his arrest under the charge of publishing a top secret government report.

Considers that there is no "Berlin crisis" or even any "Berlin problem" and view that the real problem is the problem of a divided Germany, within the still larger problem of Eastern Europe. View that as there is no Berlin problem, there can be no solution of the Berlin problem; Division of Germany as a factor related to the trouble over Berlin; Opinion that if Western power were cut off from Berlin, and East Germany's sore thus healed, there would be no more talk about a Berlin problem; Reunification as the only cure for the crisis; Question concerning the role of the West Germans, the NATO, and the United States in reunification campaign; Views on the Soviet position in East Germany.