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Focuses on the Disarmament Conference which was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Information that the conference gives Germany the theoretical equality of armament with the other Great Powers; View that the conference aim to impress the United States that Europe really is setting its house in order and is therefore entitled to drastic reduction or cancellation of the war debts; Claim that despite the seeming evidence to the contrary, the statesmen assembled at Geneva are not a pack of simpletons.

Presents information on the economic consequences of the French occupation of the Ruhr, Germany. Assumption that France is in the Ruhr for political reasons, and is there to stay, the economic consequences will prove of vastly greater significance; Discussion of motives for the action of France in the Ruhr; View that the French leaders know well enough that Germany is in involuntary default on cash payments; Admittance that the sale of paper marks to foreign bankers and servant girls are no longer a lucrative source of revenue; Were there any valid economic reasons for the French opposition to the appointment of a commission of neutral experts to study the capacity of Germany to pay; Description of two alternatives open to the government in power in France; Report that the only possibility for economic gain lies in a permanent occupation, in the economic, if not political annexation of the Ruhr to France.

Presents news related to political developments all round the world. Impact of World War I on various industries in the U.S.; Claims that the chief obstacle to a general peace in Germany is the baleful subordination in German policy of political to military considerations; Report that the U.S. government is spending millions on words printed in the daily papers in order to sell Liberty bonds; Features of the agreements and disagreements of the Irish convention; Information about war loans; Work of women in selling liberty bonds in the U.S.; Comments on New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, San Francisco, and other harbors that are handling commerce for war.

Presents information on recent socio-political developments from across the world. Information about the great campaign for home repair and modernization in the U.S.; Eighteen thousand banks are ready to make loans for these purposes to people who otherwise could not get the money, and the government guarantees them against loss up to 20 percent, as well as discounting the home owner's paper if desired; Impact of the Nazi movement on Austrian government and administrative circles; Elections in Germany; Mystery of the San Francisco, California longshoremen's strike brought out in the recent inquest into the deaths of Howard Sperry and Nicholas Boredeis, who were killed during the police attacks that accompanied the Industrial Association's attempts to open the port with force.

The article provides world news briefs for the week ending May 19, 1941. Germany's third top Nazi, Rudolph Hess, is reported to have flown alone in a Messerschmitt fighter and landed in Scotland with identification papers and heart medicine. Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover stated the U.S. shouldn't enter the war because the country is disunited and instead should supply England with tools of war. Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yosuke has come to the U.S. for diplomatic talks.

Focuses on the printing of a cartoon picturing Mars with a satisfied smile on his lips, lighting a cigar with the peace treaty release at the time of the announcement of the peace terms with Germany. Suitability of the caricature with opinion of the people on the treaty; Views on the impact of the treaty with imperialism in Germany; Standpoints of other publications to the League of Nations.

Comments on the adverse reaction of various political quarters in France towards papers related to politics by the late German foreign minister Gustav Stresemann. Charges made against Stresemann's papers by editors of the newspapers Le Journal des Debats, Le Temps and L'Echo de Paris; Impact of these papers on Franco-German relations; Views of Stresemann that the guarantee of Germany's western frontier were no sacrifice of German interests.

The article reports on the alleged revival of the neo-Nazi groups in Germany and the threats faced by ethnic minorities from said groups. It cites as example the case of anti-racist and anti-fascist activist Ferat Kocak, who survived an alleged murder plan by the group NSU 2.0. Also cited is the resurgence of far-right political parties like the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in the country.

Offers a look at control of the Nazi government on the press under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Revelation of the fact of control on press through the accounts given by tourists regarding the apparent peace and contentment prevailing in Germany; Assertion of a staff correspondent about the renewed subjugation of Jews and liberals in Prussia; Control of government agents on the press by tapping telephone and telegraph lines, and threatening editors and staff members; Restrictions on foreign magazines and newspapers in Germany; Suppression of specific issues of certain papers; Broadcast of news by a French station at Strasbourg, France, which used both the German and French language; Preference to be given to the book "Mein Kampf," by Hitler in bookstores.

Focuses on the importance of Office of War Information (OWI). Censorship of news to be broadcast in Germany; Check on the freedom of press until the elimination of Nazi and militarist influence in Germany; Probability of withdrawing the free news service which the OWl provided to European papers; Impact of the lack of a positive, over-all postwar radio program for Europe; Difficulty in receiving American radio as compared to British Broadcasting Corp.'s news; Audience of the "Voice of America," an identification for the OWI radio; News of political developments; Prohibition of items disparaging or showing hostility to Chiang Kai-Shek, head of nationalist government on Taiwan; Information on distortion of news; Reasons for the systemic faults of the OWl which arise due to the recruitment of inexperienced personnel in various news and language desks.

Reports on anti-Nazi activities in Germany. Statistics on death sentences for treason and for undermining the morale of the fighting forces; Strikes by war workers in Bremen and disorders in Munich supporting anti-Nazi sentiments; Information on a decree that urged Nazi officers to educate their men in Nazi philosophy; Protests against German dictator Adolf Hitler by underground papers like "Der Durchbruch" and "Die Innere Front"; Information on Youth Control Offices in Germany to combat anti-Nazis in every district of Germany.

Presents information related to the Danish invasion by Germany. Rumors in the American press that there were Nazi sympathizers in Denmark; Action of the Danish state against the Nazi ex-Communists who ran a Nazi paper; Assembly of the Danes on Sundays, in Copenhagen to join in patriotic national songs; Circulation of books on every aspects of the national life in the country; Provision for sending unemployed to folk high schools; Aim of Reich to weave Denmark into the German economic realm and to break down the strong Danish labor organizations.

Focuses on prevalent scenario in Great Britain amidst growing political presence of Germany in various countries of Europe. Questions asked by U.S. visitors to Great Britain on the censorship of films and on editing of foreign publications like "Time"; Comment on diplomatic pressure from Germany on the press of various European countries to desist from printing anti-Nazi material with speculations on possible impact on Great Britain; Structure of commercial press in Great Britain; Potency of British laws against libel; Constituents of Incitement to Disaffection Bill.

Focuses on the French approach to its debts from the U.S. and Great Britain. Report that Great Britain has laid down the principle that she wants from the collectivity of continental debtors only sufficient payments to enable her to effect her own payments to the United States; Argument of the French that they should only be asked to pay a proper proportion of this reduced sum; Report that the French take the reduction to be absolute when in fact it is only conditional, and then urge that they are only liable, if the Soviet Union is excluded for half the amount required by Great Britain; Report that the Dawes Report is actually given an American name; View that in adopting the principle of the capacity of payment France does not adopt the principle of an impartial investigation into her finances; Information on the figures of French finances as they have been laid down by official persons for the guidance of the American Debt Funding Commission; View that France does recognize her debts and is only desirous of discussing ways and means; Report that while the currency is in a state of flux no valuation of wealth is possible and even were it possible it would be a poor guide to France's capacity, since much of the national wealth is altogether unconvertible; Report that while France protests that she could only pay something over 2,000,000,000 paper francs a year to both U.S. and Great Britain, the demands on her amount to about 4,000,000,000 which is the cost of the upkeep of her military forces; Report that Great Britain, though not protectionist in the same sense, is alarmed at commercial competition and the continued existence of unemployment and cannot favor and facilitate the transference either of German or of French wealth.

Presents information on deportation of Jews into Palestine without any legal permits. Cooperation of the government of Germany, Poland, Hungary and Rumania in deporting the Jews; Regulations on the number of Jews to be admitted in Great Britain; Role of organizations like the Irgun Zevai Leumi (IZL), or National Military Organization in Jewish immigration; Offices of IZL in Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Brussels, Bucharest and Paris; Cooperation of the German, Polish, Rumanian and Hungarian government to the IZL in providing immigration papers and approving arrangements for the shipment of Jewish refugees; Charge for each refugee taken into Palestine is $125; Collection of funds for those who are not in a position to pay the charges for getting into Palestine; Arrest of a number of IZL members by British authorities; Establishment of military offices of the IZL in Paris, Belgrade, Kovno, Warsaw and London; Fight for the creation of a sovereign Jewish state.

Focuses on various recent socio-political issues and developments across the world. Discussion of the fairness of the trial of fraud case against U.S. attorney general, Harry M. Daugherty; Details of charges of bribery against Daugherty by several companies; Charge of arms smuggling by the Department of Justice; Report that the forthcoming report of the commission of experts will recommend the establishment of a gold bank in a neutral country to regulate German currency, the hypothecation of the German railroads, the requirement that Germany must pay as heavy taxes as any of the Allies, and that she must pay from the outset as much in reparations as she can; Introduction of new complication into the European group of countries by the dissolution of the German Reichstag; Evaluation of the testimony presented by Senator Edward B. McLean before the U.S. Senate; Announcement of reduction of present number of properties by disposing of the New York Herald newspaper by Frank A. Munsey, owner of several newspapers in the U.S.; Discussion of the newly introduced laws under Section 23 of the pending administration immigration bill; Industrial demonstration against the organization, Ku Klux Klan in California.

Presents news related to political developments around the world. Comment on politician M. Poincare's restrictions on the proposed conference on Germany's capacity to pay; Germany's policy of evasion; Inability of Germany to pay her debts to the U.S.; Capacity to pay is wholly based on German capacity to work hard and consume little; Criticism of liberals regarding the policy of Poincare; Control over Saxony by the Berlin Government; Revolution in France; Negotiations between France and the Ruhr industrialists regarding the liquor proposal; Attitude of American public toward the project of Russian relief; Claims that a little materialism of the Americans would be conducive to the peace and happiness of the world; Status of English woman who marries an American husband; Comments on a tariff that checks imports from Europe and checks equally exports from the U.S.; Relation between exports and imports; Information about colored eye-glasses.

Focuses on living conditions of the territories occupied by the Soviet Union from Germany during the World War II. Attempts of Novoye Slovo to be the leading Russian publication that can have a decisive influence on the press in the occupied regions; Opposition of Jews by the publication; Prominence of urban living patterns in local news; Disappearance of the Soviet administration and the arrival of Germano-Italian troops in Gorlovka; Destruction in Smolensk under the Soviet rule; Problems related to economy, sanitary, educational and social security, which were to be faced by municipal administration; Attempts of some people for reconstruction of the scientific institutes; Immunity of the population to Nazi propaganda; Decrease in population figures following the destruction of cities wrought by the war; Deprivation of poor people from food; Prominence of handicraft and artisan workshops in local production; Consistency in productive capacity maintained by the industrial center Mariupol; Concentration of Germans on food production; Probability of hopes for millions of tons of Ukrainian wheat which have been far from realization which is openly admitted by the German authorities; Provision for the establishment of a "communal economy" by the Nazis with communal cultivation of the soil; Urge of Nazis to replace the communal economy by an individualistic economy.

The article reports and comments on news events taking place during the week of September 21, 1938. A number of items are covered including the mistrial of Jimmy Hines who stood accused of conspiracy in New York City, the possible impact of a European war on Spain and the oppression of trade unionists in Nazi Germany.

Focuses on the decline of capitalism under the administration of Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler in Germany. Public spending for the purchase of armaments or for one-sided extension of war industries; Investments in road construction for military strategic purposes; Dependence of German industrialists on the needs of the State bureaucracy and of militarism by reducing the renewal of technical equipment; Attempt of Hitler to console the industrialists by comparing the social peace within Germany to the social unrest in France or America.

Reports on developments in world politics. Germany's decision by agreeing that Poland is to be admitted to a non-permanent seat on the Council provided the French block is at the same time reduced in strength through having Czechoslovakia succeeded by a neutral; United States Senate's investigation of the Tariff Commission; Intention of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot to contest the Republican nomination for Senator in the spring primaries; Foreign trade figures of the United States as of February 1926.

Focuses on some social events in Germany. Description of a snippet that describes the attitude of a school girl named Katie who has never tasted sugar nor her other family members eat potatoes and margarine after the World War I; Revelation of the inflationary condition of Germany through school incident; Overview of business condition in Germany.

Replies to philosopher and writer, Ralph Barton's accusation that the periodical is pro-Germany. Reasons behind Barton's claim; Periodical's assertion that it has supported Colonel Roosevelt's plea that the United States should protest against the violation of Belgium; Argument of the paper against an embargo on munitions; Moral issue of the war according to the periodical; Defense of the paper to Barton's claim that the publication has criticized more than once the statements of the Allies spokesmen; Criticism of the paper against Barton's alleged derision towards the employment of human reason in relation to the war.

Presents information on the intermittent propaganda war between the Soviet Union and Vatican. Reasons behind this altercation; Role of mass media in bringing out the issue; Accusation of Vatican of attempting to absolve dictator Adolf Hitler's Germany from responsibility for all the abominable deeds she has committed; Discussion on the issue of possible rapprochement between the Soviet Union and Vatican; Concerns over Soviet foreign and domestic policy.

Provides some insights into public opinion on the inability of the Western Germany alliance to reunify Germany citing the views of journalist, Sebastian Haffner on the need for neutralism. Effects of the region's relations with the U.S. and Soviet Union on the possibilities and the impossibilities of a reunification; Pros and cons to the principle and implementation of neutralism; Indications of politics and foreign relations.

Focuses on the war between the Soviet Union and Finland. Speculation on the defeat of the Red army by the Finnish troops; Report that the Finns with a great deal of military aid from Sweden and the Allies and by skillful maneuvering, sometimes outnumbered the Russians at vital points; Report that the politicians in Moscow, Russia, not the army commanders, gave the order to invade a wilderness in the dead of winter and it was an act of pure strategic folly; Report that after changing its political estimate of Finland, the Red Army adopted the military methods appropriate to the real situation; View that the Red army though vastly inferior to the Germans in speed and striking power, is fully capable of defending the Soviet Union.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Suppression of the news about the Gauley Bridge silicosis story and issues related to its printing in many American newspapers; Reply to the charges made against him in a letter related to Gauley Bridge scandal by George Seldes; Comment on the article "Amend the Wagner Act!" by Leonanrd Boudin that appeared in the August 9, 1939 issue; Views of a reader that many authorities take for granted the fact the Fourteenth Amendment was supposed to extend the scope of the Bill of Rights in the United States with reference to John Chamberlain's review of Maury Maverick's book "In Blood and Ink" that appeared in July 26, 1939 issue; View that in the August 2, 1939 issue author S.I. Hayakawa has a good deal to say about certain derisive references to semantics in the Fall, 1938 issue of the periodical "Partisan Review"; Poem of a nine-year-old refugee boy from Germany in which he present his views about migration from dictator Adolf Hitler's regime.

Presents information on the decline of mark in the global market. Causes of the decline of mark; Impact of inflation on the decline of mark; Attempt by the Germans to pay an impossibly large reparation demand; Rumors of Germany deliberately bringing on a financial catastrophe to evade reparations; Note on the situation of factories, farms, railroads and unemployment in Germany; Deficit of 1,500 million marks on merchandise account; Increase in the amount of German foreign security holdings; Reduction of about thirteen percent in Germany's geographical area and about ten percent in her population; Impact of the Treaty of Versailles on the economic condition of Germany; Purchase of food from other countries; Dismissal of rumors suggesting that inflation was pre-planned in Germany.

Focuses on the conflict between France and Germany. Formation of an anti-French coalition to stop the existing French government from proceeding to refashion Germany into an economic and political tributary of France; Revision of the Treaty of Versailles, which will detach the Rhineland and the Saar Basin, permanently from Germany and keep German politics and industry subordinate to those of France; Report on political revolution in Europe by means of conference or negotiation; Prevention of European or American country from interfering and from doing anything to encourage Germany.

Analyses the economic potential of Ruhr Basin of Germany in the light of its invasion by France. Information that Ruhr has the concentration of much greater part of the coal production in Germany; Importance of the presence of market and cost of exploitation for coal mines to become economically viable; Argument that the main market for the Ruhr coal is and must remain Germany as only the German industrial and domestic demand can give the coal value enough to make it worth mining; Information that the internal German market is reduced to the paint where it has virtually nothing it can pay for the manufactures of the Ruhr except paper marks; Argument of the French that they would extract two hundred and fifty million dollars in gold from Ruhr.

Presents information on several social and political developments around the world. Discussion on the present disposition of the U.S. electorate; Implications of the formation of the American Labor party in New York; Comments on the views of British Prime Minister Lloyd George over the British troops at Chanak; Discussion on the proposed French expenditure on its navy; Contention between France and Germany over the payment of reparations by Germany; Discussion on the demand of Bishop James Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church to send the U.S. army to the Near East; Discussion on the benefits of British payment of debt to the U.S.; Reply of Captain Paxton Hibben to the allegation that he supported the Soviet Government; Implication of the order of U.S. President Warren Harding to refer to the Tariff Commission all applications for relief under the provision of the tariff law; Discussion on the protests over a visa to permit Jean Longuet, Head of French Socialist Part, to visit the U.S.; Discussion on two incidences in the U.S. where judges refused to grant citizenship papers to aliens.

Focuses on the recognition of France about her financial break down. Discussion about the preparation of budget by France; Overview of the French economy; Belief that the special budget which France prepares every year--in which expenditure on the ravaged north and war pensions are put on the debit side, and Germany's coming contributions on the credit side--would really be covered by Germany; Argument pertaining to the financial policy of France.

Discusses diary entries made by a newspaper editor covering events related to the war. Publication of an article about the German people and their rulers; German Reichstag's adoption of a resolution declaring for "peace without annexations"; Radical pacifists' call to allow delegates to attend the Stockholm conference in Sweden.

Looks into the intentions of Germany to agitate peace with the Allied Powers. Characterization of the German strategy as a political offensive; Response of the Allied Powers to declare a renewed intention never to stop fighting until Germany is willing to sue instead of to negotiate for peace; Plan of Germany to divide the more pacifist countries like Russia and the U.S. from the less pacifist countries such as France and Great Britain.

Focuses on political conditions in Great Britain, while discussing its foreign policy. Reason behind Britain's support of the Covenant; Comments on British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's election campaign pledges; Compromise expected from the British government in the Italian-Ethiopian war; Discussion of the British policy in Europe; Anxiety of the German government regarding British friendship.

Presents news briefs, related to socio-political developments of several nations. Effect of the drought on economic conditions of the U.S.; Estimation of the damage by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration; Comments of Japanese Premier Keisuke Okada on the question of naval armament; Remarks of British admiral Earl Beatty that Great Britain should restore race in naval armament and repudiate to the London Treaty; Statement of German dictator Adolf Hitler that Germany will not attack Austria; Pamphlet issued by Harry Stevens, Minister of Trade and Commerce of Canada, describing the development of an unholy alliance between big business and government for the purpose of exploiting workers, consumers and farmers; Defeat of Conservatists in recent provincial elections; Demand of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, an amalgamation of farmer, labor and socialist groups, for the socialization of the banks, public utilities and all the leading industries in Canada; Purpose of dismissal of John Donovan, head of the U.S. National Recovery Administration's Employees' Union; List of social actions which will be performed by New York State Economic Council's board of directors; Editorial published in the newspaper "The News" on radicalism and violence.

Describes a European tour of the article's author. Description of the grandeur and services of the ship on which he crossed the Atlantic Ocean; Dialogue between a German and a Russian in Berlin; Importance of gold in Berlin; Stubbornness experienced by the author in the Soviet Union; Status of industrialization in the Soviet Union; Discovery made by the author in Leningrad in the Soviet Union; Comparison between economic conditions in the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

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 efforts of British statesman Neville Chamberlain to mediate for the peaceful settlement between Germany and Czech Republic; Features of the policy of Chamberlain to avoid war; Shortage of raw materials in Germany; Probability of attack of Germany on Czech Republic; Efforts of Lord Runciman to maintain peace between the two countries; Impact of the attack on England; Assessment of the military power of Germany; Attitude of German dictator Adolf Hitler on British mediation; Assumption of Great Britain that a warning can veto a Central European war; Possible response of Hitler on the warning; Justification of Chamberlain's policy; Support of the British Left to Czech Republic both on its merits and as a bulwark against German expansion; Views of Tories on these considerations; Intentions of Chamberlain to make friendly relations with France, Italy and France

Comments on the growing threat to the democracy in Germany. Dictatorial power given to the president during the threat of public safety included in the Article 48; Responsibility of President Paul von Hindenburg and Heinrich Bruening to put into effect the budget which the late Reichstag failed to pass due to the pending election of September 14; Legality of the action of the President in dissolving the Reichstag.

Presents several letters to the editor related to war and politics. Reference to the case of two political prisoners Ricardo Flores Magon and Librado Rivera, who were convicted for expressing their opinion in their paper called "Regeneracion," during the war, about world conditions; Views expressed by J. Ellis Barker in his book "Great and Greater Britain" on war and Germany.

Reports on the charges of treason against Douglas Chandler, the American who broadcast Nazi propaganda by short-wave from Berlin, Germany. Reaction of Chandler in the courtroom when the prosecution played recordings of his broadcast urging a Germany built as a bulwark against Russian communism.

Presents information on the surprise attack made by Japan on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in 1941. Reference to features of isolationism; Information that on December 4, 1941 the isolationist "Chicago Tribune" and "Washington Times- Herald" published a top-secret US position paper laying out logistic and supply plans for an imagined invasion of Germany; Revealment that the newsmen had warned army and navy commanders on November 24, 1941 of a probable attack; Discussion on incidents preceding the attack; Betrayal demonstrated by the Japanese in the attacks.

Presents several letters to editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues of this periodical. "Invasion of the Gannettoids," published in February 2 issue; "Spending Smarter," published in February 2 issue; "Neo-Nazi U," appearing in January 19 issue.

Focuses on the issue of reunification of Germany and the interference of the Soviet pressure in the reunification. Groups in West Germany, who reject Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's unbending commitment to the West; Views of Gustav Heinemann, Adenauer's first Federal Minister of the Interior and today a recruit to the Social Democratic fraction in the Bundestag, against the East German marionette-team under Walter Ulbricht; Efforts of opportunistic right-wingers of the Free Democratic Party led by Wolfgang Doering, to break the East-West deadlock; Statement of the party that it would merely give East German regime a "de facto" recognition with the purpose of ending its separate existence as soon as reunification took place; Significance of reunification of Germany; Views of another group of political independents against the foreign policy of Adenauer; Attitude of East German towards the issue of reunification; Demand of Soviet Union for a "German Confederation" of two equally entitled German states; Demand for the creation of an "All-German Council"; Pressure on East Germany to meet the demands of the Soviet Union to maintain its existence; Policy of the Soviet Union to hold on to every inch of territory won in Central Europe and to consolidate gains prior to making a fresh advance to the West political, economic and strategic importance of Eastern Germany to the Soviet Union.

Presents an account of socio-economic conditions in Berlin, Germany. Perseverance of art in Berlin in spite of the increase in costs of those which art encircles; Analysis of the price of a dollar in the city; Account of the growing strength of communists in Berlin, Germany; Overview of general day-to-day activities on the streets of Germany; Sight of day and night activities at a post-office in Berlin.

Focuses on the policy proposed by the politician M. Poincare regarding the economic ruin of Germany. Claims that Germany must pay as much as the French government demands; Setback for civilization in Europe of perhaps a century's duration; Issues between France and Germany related to economic conditions of both countries; Comments on liberalism and nationality; Invasion of the Ruhr as an illegal act; Actions taken by League of Nations regarding waging war.

Criticizes the decision by the League of Nations to let the French government dictate terms in the case involving the land of the Ruhr issue between Germany and France. Turn of events that made the Council of the League, designated by the League of Nations to look into the matter, a mere tool of the French foreign policy; Queries on the circumstances that led to the event and the overall ability of the League of Nations; Insight to the seriousness of member nations of the Council of the League; Portrayal of distrust on the overall ability of the Council of League to solve the Ruhr issue.

Focuses on a conference regarding a dispute over the disposition of German coal. Comments on the importance of Ruhr coal to France and Germany; Emphasis of Germany on the necessity of modification of the Peace Treaty; Impact of the outcome of the conference on German capitalists; Comments of Otto Hue, head of the Miners' Union, at the conference.

Comments on the strategy of Germany in its military offensive in Verdun, France. Forward movement of troops via a series of jumps backed up by proper artillery preparation and detailed infantry reconnaissance; Military organization, tactics and material; Implications on war and military strategy.