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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.

This article offers world news briefs. U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson delivered speeches intended to reassure citizens about possible civil liberties violations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Experts suggest that Japan and Russia will agree to end the Chinese war by dividing China between them. British statesman Winston Churchill said that Great Britain had no intention of making war on the Soviet Union.

This article discusses how Leader of the Nazi Party Adolf Hitler is beginning to feel the strain of the war. Additionally, the diplomatic phase of the war extends to the Far East with British garrisons withdrawing from China indicating an understanding between Japan and Great Britain that will negatively impact China.

Focuses on the situations that initiated the second world war based on information from the summary chapter in the book "The History of the Nineteen-thirties." Information about peace treaties that established unjust settlements and initiated more wars; Effect of the industrial depression on various countries; Loss that accompanied the boycott of Japanese goods by China; Economic condition in Japan; Military assistance provided by Great Britain and the U.S. to Japan.

Focuses on the controversy between Great Britain and Japan over the blockade of Tientsin. Reason for the controversy between Japan and Great Britain; Demand of Japan to stop lending money and transition of supplies and munitions to China; Fact that Japan wants active aid as a price for cessation of blackmail; Suggestion that Great Britain should become her silent partner in trade and the future exploitation of eastern Asia instead of maintaining her historical independent position; Calculation of Japan based upon an estimate of Great Britain's power to resist; Information on the basic idea of the treaty in regard to Tientsein; Statement that the dilemma arises in the first place from the fact that neither Great Britain nor the United States has in the past acted logically to fulfill the implications of the Open Door policy and the Nine-Power Pacific Treaty.