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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.

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.

Focuses on policy decisions of the National Security Council (NSC) that led the U.S. into war with Vietnam. Reasons for the U.S. to the Communist attack on South Korea in June 1950; Comment on the foreign policy of the U.S. mentioned in NSC paper regarding Vietnam; Reports that in September, 1949, the Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb, about five years ahead of expectations by American and European experts; Observations on the new power relationship in the world, with the U.S. and the Soviet Union occupying the terminal poles.

The article discusses "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," a research paper produced for Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government by Stephen Walt, an academic dean, and John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. While the paper purports to deal with foreign policy, it neglects to examine the U.S.'s dependence on foreign oil.

Presents information on various political and economic developments around the world. Causes of the recent rapid fall of the pound sterling in the exchange markets; Details of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to stop the subsidies to shipping concealed in contracts for carrying mail; Publication of the Hearst papers in a series of featured articles, illustrated with photographs, by one Thomas Walker; Need for everyone in the world above the age of ten to know that Japan intends to dominate all of eastern Asia, including China.

Comments on political issues in the United States. Demand of the U.S. to Israel to release its Arab hostages without any guarantee of the release of Israeli prisoners; Concern over the language used for the recycle bins placed around Harvard University; Announcement that Edward Rothstein will be resigning from "The New Republic" to become a senior music critic at "The New York Times".

Presents information on social and political developments in the world. Steps taken by the police to control the strike of the U.S.-based United Automobile Workers; Continuance of the Spanish war with both loyalists and rebels claiming successes; Reference to the victory for the Congress of Industrial Organizations when U.S. Steel Corp. entered into negotiations with the union leaders which may lead to a contract covering hours, wages and conditions of work; Reason behind the opposition of the child labor amendment by political reactionaries; Suggestion given by six U.S. Governors to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to bar any drastic cuts in the U.S.-based Works Progress Administration; Efforts made by the government of New Jersey for the title of Fascist Principality Number One in the U.S.; Refusal of the U.S. State Department to give passports to the members of an American ambulance unit; Information about an announcement regarding the Food Ship, which plans to sail with food supplies for thousands of noncombatants evacuated from Madrid, Spain; Atrocities committed on the natives of Ethiopia after an attempt was made to assassinate Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani; Defeat of the Horton sedition bill in the Arkansas House of Representatives; Details about the testimony given by two persons before the U.S. House Immigration Committee regarding strip-tease artists; Attempt made by various units of the American Newspaper Guild to bargain with the Scripps-Howard papers; Resolutions adopted at a meeting of the National Education Association in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Focuses on the condition of the foreign language press in the U.S. Discussion of the nationalism in the U.S. in context of several migrant communities there; Description of various private and public schemes for suppressing the foreign language press of the U.S.; Statement that young immigrants learn English quickly; Attitude of the U.S. government towards foreign language press; Information about several foreign language publications in the U.S.

Comments on political, as well as social, developments around the world. Need to avoid discord between Great Britain and France over any question of European policy; Factors that have lead to resentment in Great Britain; Role of the U.S. in case Great Britain and France break on the question of substituting new balance of power in Europe for the present dictatorship; Refusal of U.S. President Warren Harding administration to exhibit the slightest official interest in the Silesian question; Inadequacy of the removal of obstacles to Russian trade; Discussion on the trade agreement between the Soviet Union and England; Information on accounts in British papers which have made it possible to unravel in large part the mystery of the sudden collapse of the Triple Alliance strike called to help miners.

Presents news briefs related to current political events involving the U.S. as of November 17, 1997. Information on the China policy of the administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton; Decision of "Washington Post" ombudsman Geneva Overholser to castigate her own paper for putting an unflattering photograph of the 15-year old African American girl Kyisha Whitico on the front page; Publication of new works by members of the "New Republic," including "Real Politics: At the Center of Everyday Life," by Jean Bethke Elshtain.

Comments on political developments in the United States and abroad. Media coverage of the Senate hearings on the issue of Supreme Court nominations which the author likens to a circus; Television advertisement produced by L. Brent Bozell III of the Media Research Center which attacked Democratic senators for moral lapses in connection with the hearings; Allegations by the lobby group People for the American Way against Justice Clarence Thomas for trips he took as chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; White paper issued by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan devoted to proving that its fence-sitting in the Gulf crisis was in fact support for the winning side.

Presents the author's comments on the kind of assistance Great Britain wants from the U.S. Details of Lend-Lease policy; Impact of the establishment of Lend-Lease on Great Britain; Highlights of mutual misunderstanding in the civil aviation sector; Establishment of a rule by the British government that nothing could be exported from Britain which was being received from the U.S. under Lend-Lease; Information on the trade between the two countries.

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.

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.

Provides some insights into world politics, foreign relations and industries compiled as of March 1922. Developments in politics in the U.S.; Sales tax policies in the U.S.; Diplomacy after the war and the events for the Genoa Conference in Italy; Proposals for the treatment of and relations with Russia; Issues pertaining to the working conditions and treatment of coal miners in the U.S.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Constitutional, procedural and political factors involved in the enfranchising of youths above 18 years old in the United States as discussed in the editorial of the May 2, 1970 issue; United States Senate's addition to the House-passed Voting Rights Act of 1970; Negotiations between Israel and the Palestine to bring peace in the Middle East as discussed in the "Russians in Egypt" article published in the May 16, 1970 issue; Reasons why the United States should support Israel.

Focuses on policies of the U.S. towards South-East Asia. Effects of assassinations in Tokyo to paralyze Japanese military action in Asia; Comment on crisis in Japan's relations with China, the Soviet Union and the Western Powers; Requirement of base in Manila for the U.S. navy; Information that American fortifications west of Hawaii are forbidden by the Washington and London treaties; Comment on the future relations of Japan with the U.S.; Dependency of Japan upon the manufacture of cotton and rayon textiles.

Presents information on Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State of the U.S. Overview of career of Vance; Evaluation of Vance's function as the Secretary of State; Determination to restore the credibility and integrity of the State Department; Interest in the foreign affairs of the country; Views on the relations of the U.S. with the Soviet Union; Goal of Vance to cushion the emerging competition between the Soviet Union and the U.S., on arms, trade and other agreements; Proposal to increase the defense budget; Information that Vance was defeated for increasing anti-Soviet sentiment within the administration led by Zbigniew Brzezinski; Need for a powerful defense policy; Emphasis on the prevention of economic desperation in the developing countries; Speculations on reasons behind his resignation.

Deals with the U.S. government's lack of response on the defection of Hwang Jang Yop, member of the North Korean Workers' Party central committee, a leading theoretician of the North's crackpot brand of autarchical communism and a former tutor of North Korean leader Kim Jong II, in 1997. Reason behind the government's cool response to the testimony of Hwang; Assertions of Hwang about the North Korean government; Factor that influence U.S. dismissals of Hwang; Nature of the U.S.-South Korea relationship.

Appraises the performance of U.S. President Richard Nixon and his administration during his four year tenure. Analysis of economic conditions prevailing in the U.S. after 1969; Critical appraisal of the wage-price policy of Nixon; Information on the cumulative budgetary deficit during the initial years of Nixon's administration; Assessment of the Nixon administration's role in a Vietnam peace settlement; Profiles and initiatives of several key personalities working under Nixon.

Focuses on the international intrigue of the arrest of six persons of both the State Department and the Navy of the U.S. who are accused of being spies. Dramatization of the news of arrest by the mass media; Criticism of the State Department in handling the case of arrest by the mass media; Displeasure expressed by the Federal Bureau of Investigations towards slumping of the responsibility of the whole case upon them by the State Department; Changes in the nature of the original charges against the six accused by the State Department; Similarity of opinion of the six accused towards the policy of the State Department regarding China and Japan; Discussion of the Far Eastern policy of the State Department.

Comments on the extent of the American presence in Europe. Presence of thousands of Americans in Europe in interests purely commercial and financial; American tourists in France; Development of American newspaper interests abroad; Power held by American foreign correspondents in Europe.

Presents information on several socio-political and economic developments around the world. Information on the continuing political conflict throughout Europe; Description of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit to the drought regions in the U.S.; View that with the with the death of U.S. Secretary of War George H. Dern, President Roosevelt is confronted with a heavy responsibility in appointing his successor; Information on Roosevelt's efforts to ensure international peace. Report that liberal and labor circles in England have been agitated about what they believe is the spineless action of the government and the apathetic attitude of the press and the public concerning the struggle of the Spanish people.

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.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing the article "Cuba: A Dissenting Report," by Samuel Shapiro, published in the September 09 issue. Economic and social development of Cuba; Cost and standard of living of the people in Cuba; Foreign economic relations of the U.S., with Cuba; Refusal of the U.S. firms to accept tax assessed evaluations for property confiscated by the Cuban Government; Failure of the administration of Fidel Castro; Failure of Shapiro to mention the newspaper "Times of Havana," which is published in Havana; Laws regulating property taxes in Cuba.

Comments on the political and socio-economic issues in the U.S. Aim of the U.S. to bring about the actual reduction of armament; Announcement made by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson to the people about the policy of the Hoover Administration against recognition of Russia; Tendency of ordinary moral standards to disappear in time of war.

The article comments on several controversial political issues in the U.S. on December 1928. Supporters of the cruiser-building bill in the U.S. threaten the Kellogg-Brian treaty by a sabotage, whose ratification can create an international atmosphere that would be disadvantageous to the construction of naval vessels. Senator Frederick E. Gillett of Massachusetts has an inconsistent stand over the cruiser-building bill as he intended to reject the bill, but he has support it in the later part.

Presents information on various socio-political issues as of December 1977. Discussion on the New York State Supreme Court ruling about discrimination against lawyers; Information that the Senate minority leader, Howard Baker of Tennessee is to run for president in 1980; Statement that in the Soviet Union there is no toilet paper in the public conveniences except in the major hotels; Comments on private charity in the U.S.; Description of the women's conference in Houston, Texas.

This article focuses on U.S. General Commander in Chief, Douglas MacArthur's views on U.S. foreign policy towards Asian nations. It seems clear that MacArthur's insubordination was a well calculated gesture in an attempt to capture the leadership in American policy, on the theory that U.S. President Harry S. Truman would be too weak to fight back. Moments of crisis like the present are always those chosen by the military, in any country, to take over. No doubt MacArthur will get the support of the Hearst papers, the Luce magazines, the China lobby and the right-wing republicans who have always wanted a military-imperialist policy in Asia, a policy called strength but actually committed to the weakest and rottenest elements in recent far Eastern history.

Focuses on the political developments related to the United States. Comments of governor Adlai Stevenson about U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's failure during international Summit conference in Paris, France; Comparison between personality and influence of presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Wayne Morse among voters; Doubts regarding awareness of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower about U-2 flights issue. Criticism of the U.S. President and Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev by newspapers on the U-2 fights issue.

The article focuses on the political activity and political ideas of Mark Kirk, a U.S. Republican Senator. Information about his dedication to foreign affairs, his visits to places such as Afghanistan and Africa, and his willingness as a Republican Senator to work with Democrats is included. His work on foreign relations with Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the Senate is discussed. It is suggested that Kirk differs from Republicans leaders in Congress who favor U.S. isolationist policies abroad.

Presents an update on various socio-political developments. Comment on the efforts of Professor Edward Said who has been on a tour of Palestinian-ruled territories, spreading his message of rejectionism towards U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace process; Opinion on the cutback of 1.7 million barrels-per-day in states' production by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; Citation of cases in which citizens of the U.S. have sued law enforcement officers for allowing various media organizations to tag along on search-and-arrest operations.

Provides information on highlights of a press conference given by U.S. President Jimmy Carter concerning dangers of possessing nuclear weapons. Overview of a treaty between the U.S. and the Soviet Union regarding the production of nuclear weapons; Cessation of nuclear tests; Importance of conducting press conferences; Information about Vietnam war evaders.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Criticism of the U.S. foreign policy with reference to articles by Robert W. Tucker; Insight into the contradiction in the analysis of the Central American turmoil by Robert W. Tucker; Justification regarding the reconstruction of the Beaumont Theater in New York City.

Comments on various issues related to business and foreign policy in the U.S. Imposition of drug tests on employees; Attention to the laws regarding the employment of illegal aliens; Closing of Arabic-language newspapers in Jerusalem by the Israeli High Court; Violation of the American anti-boycott law of 1977; Fact that Israel is the only nation in the Middle East that shares and upholds Western political values.

Examines the significance of the three international summits held in response to the U.S. air raid on Libya. Outrage of the Soviet Union over the use of force by the U.S. against Libya; Meeting between the seven major Western industrialized nations to develop a proper response to terrorism; Reflection of the political decline following the collapse of the cartel in the world oil market.

Highlights key issues that the United States needs to consider in developing a more effective foreign debt policy. German reparations; Allied war debts; Post-war private loans; Analysis of the Dawes Plan, which was drafted by American banker Charles G. Dawes to provide a framework for the payment of reparations by Germany.

Focuses on the tour of former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau to the U.S. Attitude of the press towards Clemenceau's tour; Information on the political situation of France; Prospects of Clemenceau's returning to power; Necessity of maintaining whole-souled cooperation with Great Britain; Role of Clemenceau in European and world politics.

The article presents information on socio-political developments in the United States in the year 1951. The Congressional investigation of the U.S. general Douglas MacArthur controversy is getting a lot of publicity in the U.S. Congressional investigations run a cycle. First, the investigation is largely factual; then partisanship increases; then comes the big whoop-la, and finally a majority and minority report. The U.S. State Department is taking a firm stand on China, which seems to be insistence on keeping China out of the UN, threatening to bomb Chinese cities after all, and preparing to pal around again with the discredited regime of Chiang Kai-shek, on Formosa.

Presents information on political and social conditions in the world during 1949. Opinion of Europeans about the creation of a permanent, freely trading area comprising 270 million consumers in Western Europe; Social condition of the people in the U.S. living under the fear of communism; Statistics related to export trade between Western and Eastern Europe.

Discusses the U.S. diplomatic relationship with West Germany. Political significance of the phrase 'the Spirit of Camp David'; Argument on the reunification of Germany; Tendency of Western powers to work for Germans.

Reports that the agreement between Germany and Italy on one hand and Japan on the other to come to each other's aid if a third power should enter the war against one of the signatories is obviously intended to intimidate the U.S. Intention of German dictator Adolf Hitler to attack the U.S. from the west on the event of U.S. assistance to Great Britain; Plans made by the U.S. for two-ocean navy and an enlarged army, anticipating the possible need for defense on west and east sides; Assessment of the capabilities of the U.S. armament for withstanding assault on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Focuses on various recent political and economic developments in the U.S. in comparison to rest of the world. Opposition by Democrats of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal program on democracy; Reference of a letter to the editor by James W. Arnold, Republican National Committeeman in Georgia, published in the August 31 issue; Appeal from Arnold to Republicans to support Senator Henry George against Roosevelt; Accusations by Roosevelt of a conspiracy between conservative Democrats and the Republican organization; Report that political emissaries have been endeavoring to commit the Republican party to a plan by which the 1940 Republican convention will be held after the Democratic convention; Arguments pertaining to Democratic party's performance in the coming Presidential election in the U.S.; Discussion of political campaigns; Concern of the U.S. State Department towards Japan's new foreign policy after the capture over Hankow, a city in east coast China; Analysis of foreign policies of Far East nations.

Focuses on the failure of the United States to produce a coherent policy regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions. Reference to Iran's deal with Britain, France and Germany to suspend its uranium processing and nuclear proliferation program; Discussion of the reaction of neoconservatives in the United States to Iran's nuclear ambitions; Question of whether preemptive military strikes are an option in dealing with Iran; Reference to the book "The Persian Puzzle," by Kenneth M. Pollack; Role of neoconservatives in the U.S. in the creation of foreign policy; Desire of neoconservatives to spread democracy when it promotes U.S. interests; Discussion of whether regime change is possible in Iran; Claim of some that a preemptive strike against Iranian facilities is the only option that will delay Iran's production of nuclear weapons; Suggestion that a preemptive strike would work against the U.S. vision of a democratic Middle East.

Claims that U.S. politicians are reacting to the deterioration of the occupation of Iraq by abandoning the idealistic notion of using foreign policy to spread democracy in favor of a policy based on realism. Background on the formation of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy in Washington; Assertion that U.S. President George W. Bush and presidential candidate John Kerry are in agreement that U.S. foreign policy should have a more humble focus; Background on the development of realism in the U.S. foreign policy community; Discussion of the differences between the foreign policy approaches of former President Bill Clinton and Kerry; Discussion of the evolution of Bush administration foreign policy from neoconservative idealism to realism; Argument that America's problems creating democracy in Iraq do not derive from failures of democracy, but from failures of security; Discussion of the controversy among foreign policy experts over whether the United States should impose its own political values on other countries.

Presents an analysis of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's views on foreign policy and examines the claim that, even while serving as Defense Secretary to George H.W. Bush, Cheney believed that the only true guarantee of U.S. security lay in transforming threatening nations into democratic ones. Details of Cheney's views on the Soviet Union under the first Bush administration; Reasons why Cheney agreed that Saddam Hussein should be left in power at the end of the Gulf War; Details of the process through which Cheney came to believe that Saddam should be deposed; Claim that Cheney's views on foreign policy were formed before September 11, 2001; Details of how Cheney recruited a team of neoconservative intellectuals to serve in the George W. Bush White House, including Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley and Zalmay Khalilzad; Claim that Cheney's mistrusted the CIA and its conclusion that Iraq posed no immediate military threat; Claim that Cheney will continue to push his agenda of aggressive promotion of democracy through military policy.

Argues that the United States should be wary of European integration. In the wake of World War II, there was no reason whatsoever for the U.S. to object to increased Western European integration, the expansion of intra-European trade, and the pacification of ancient conflicts. In fact, there were many good reasons to endorse and encourage increased European integration. But this analysis always obscured something at the heart of the European project. From the beginning, European unity was understood as a counterweight to the global hegemony of the United States. The United States of Europe (USE) would become a separate legal body, and member governments would be formally subordinate to it. The areas of competence for the new superstate range from public health to farming and fishing, from economics to social policy and civil rights. National governments would have no power to regulate these matters unless sanctioned by Brussels. The USE is the obvious next step for this essentially French project. And it couldn't come at a less propitious time for U.S.-European relations. Moreover, the future USE in some ways is designed specifically to avoid the larger entity dissolving into a loose federation of nation-states, some Atlanticist, some anti-American. One thing that could unify Europe is a clumsy U.S. intervention to prevent it.

Presents information about the public relation firm Rendon Group Inc. headed by John W. Rendon and its activities toward the U.S. propaganda war against terrorism. Rendon's involvement and activities during the Panama invasion and in the Gulf war; Selection of Rendon by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to promote Iraq's President Sadam Hussein's opponents; Discussion of Rendon's propaganda model and comparison with the ideas of CIA; Relation between Rendon and Iraqi National Congress.

Reports on social and political conditions in Afghanistan. Uncertainty among Afghans concerning the final appearance of an interim government; Letters written by the author's Afghan friend Samiullah on issues various social and political conditions in Afghanistan; Stories told by Samiullah about his clansmen, Taliban and anti-Taliban; Interference of the Americans in Afghanistan.

Discusses the foreign policy of Colin Powell, the selection of U.S. President-elect George W. Bush as secretary of state. Reflection of grievances and assumptions of the post-Vietnam officer corps in Powell's view; Powell's Doctrine theory of fighting wars that entails a theory of foreign policy; Solicitation of Powell's opinion during Iraq crisis; Powell's resistance to arguments for a large-scale humanitarian operation during war.