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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.

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.

Comments on the conflicting public opinion in the U.S. and Japan toward the American intervention in Siberia. Irritation of the Japanese periodicals; Resentment to the assumed guardianship over Japan by America; Incapability of maintaining peace and order by themselves; Adoption of resolution regarding the intervention issue; Queries on the Japanese press on America's own disinterestedness in the premises; Illustration of the confrontation of opposing tendencies.

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 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.

Presents information on recent political developments and news related to the business sector in the U.S. Relationship of the author with politician Zbigniew Brzezinski; Opinion of Brzezinski's colleagues about him when he taught at a university; Deterioration of the quality of American production; Reference to the possibility that Japan might exceed the U.S. in the manufacturing sector.

Explores various issues concerning the free-trade negotiation between Japan and the U.S. in the 1980s. Factors that contribute to trade deficit of the U.S.; Private sectors wherein U.S. products are thought to be competitive; Details of Japanese-managed capitalism; Effect of the U.S. government's negotiating strategy on trade barriers set by Japan; Results of a summit meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.

Focuses on the high technology competition between the U.S. and Japan. Impact of America's ban on exports of high technologies to the Soviets; Reaction of western European countries in wake of the sanctions; Importance of gas pipeline for Western European countries; Impact of Europe's defiance of the pipeline ban; Loss of markets for American technology companies to Japanese and European companies; Role of high technology components in the international trade; Criticism of the U.S. economic policies toward Latin America.

Focuses on the principles that should guide the United States in intervention abroad. Claim that former secretary of state Henry Kissinger's preference for foreign policy is not based on ideology but balance of power; Debate over the national security strategy of the U.S.; View that both hyper-realism and neo-Wilsonianism are, by themselves, wrong and inadequate as the basis for any future U.S. foreign policy; Implications of Kissinger's realism for foreign policy of the U.S.; Concern of Kissinger over the threat to the U.S. posed by Japan.

Compares the economies of Japan and the U.S. History of the political relationship between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone; Issue of the exchange rates of the Japanese yen and the U.S. dollar; Reference to the occupation policy of import substitution and export stimulation.

Focuses on the arrest of the U.S. soldiers outside an Army theater in Okinawa Island, Japan and the events that followed after their arrest. Overview of soldiers who were arrested; Reasons cited for the arrest of the U.S. soldiers; Details of legal military procedures under which the U.S. soldiers were arrested and questioned by various authorities.

Focuses on the implications of the end of Vietnam War for the U.S., China and Japan. Reasons for the opposition of China to the meeting in Paris, France for the negotiations regarding the Vietnam War; Agreement of the U.S. to conduct negotiations within Hanoi's terms; Plans of elimination of all foreign military bases in Vietnam; Recognition of the National liberation Front (NLF) as the sole genuine representative government of the South Vietnamese; Goal of the U.S. to secure North Vietnam's recognition of the existence of a separate South Vietnam state; Aims of the U.S. and the NLF of Hanoi, Vietnam for the settlement negotiations; Impact of the loss of the U.S. military control over Vietnam on the Japanese-American alliance; Impact of the settlement on foreign policies of the U.S., China and Japan.

Focuses on political developments in the world, with emphasis on political conditions in the U.S. Information on the U.S. Navy's proposal for peace and weapon disarmaments; Discussion of the Pearl Harbor investigation and theory set up by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to warn the Americans of the dangers of fascist aggression; Information on the U.S. Government's encouragement of reconversion policy; Discussion of the Anglo-American talks on the Lend-Lease between Great Britain and the U.S.; Discussion of the unemployment-compensation legislation and the Kilgore unemployment bill which is considered by Senator Walter George of Georgia to reveal his opposition in the U.S. Congress; Opinion of Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada on the Administration bill that the main purpose of reorganization should be to return to the states the powers which, the federal government usurped during the war; Discussion of the demands of the steelworkers for a wage increase; Information on the U.S. state referenda which states that since there is ceiling on the price of cotton, one must have a low price on the cost of picking and poor sharecroppers must pay their hired hands, and cannot afford decent wages; Information on U.S. General Douglas MacArthur's announcement that he will be the boss of the Japanese Emperor, and stay in Japan until the Potsdam terms are carried out; Discussion of the responsibility of the U.S. in deciding how to control the atomic bomb and cooperation of British and Russian scientists; Information on the Economic Stabilization Act that authorizes the U.S. President to set farm wages and State Wage Board in each state, which holds hearings and then sets a tentative figure for farm wages.

Focuses on political developments in the world with emphasis on political condition in the U.S. Announcement by U.S. President Harry S. Truman that his country will not seek monetary payment for Lend-Lease deficits on the books; Effects of the sudden and unilateral termination of Land-Lease agreement by President Truman; Need for cooperation between Great Britain and the U.S. for future expansion of world trade; Details of democratic election scenario in Japan; Views of James C. Dunn, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European, African and Near and Far Eastern Affairs on former African colonies of Italy; Issues related to the passage of the Murray-Patman full-employment bill; Criticism of the political regimes, which under the Soviet auspices have come to power in the Balkans; Comments by W. Stuart Symington, chairman of the Surplus Property Board, on limiting provisions of the Surplus Property Act; Views of Republicans and Southern Democrats on the Kilgore unemployment bill; Strike and lockout by newspapers "Post Dispatch," "Star-Times" and "Globe-Democrat" in Saint Louis; Suspension of loyal employees of these newspapers without pay until publication resumed.

Focuses on foreign relations between the United States and Japan. Reference to the prevalence of a dichotomy in the traditional American outlook on Japan; Perplexity in minds of American politicians regarding how to frame policies for trade with Japan; Advantages of rise of a new democratic order in Japan; Fundamental aspects of the Japanese social structure; Discussion of postwar policy of the U.S. toward Japan.

This article discusses news including the win of the United States Navy over the Japanese main fleet, the recall of General Joe Stilwell as Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in China, and the decline of China's ability to resist the Japanese, which fades the vision of China becoming a base for the armed forces of other United Nations.

Reports on socio-political and economic developments around the world. Role of the League of Nations on the seizure of Corfu Island, Greece; Pressure on Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini by France and England to accept the terms of the League; Information on the negotiations between Jugoslavia and Italy on the domination of Fiume, West Croatia; Speculation on the attitude of the U.S. political parties on foreign policy in the wake of 1924 elections; Information on the currency question in Germany; View of Governor Gifford Pinchot on the added cost of anthracite as per the settlement of the coal strike; Speculation on the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake; Information on the activities of the League of Nations; Information on issues related to the politics and government in the U.S.; Report that the organization Ku Klux Klan, victim of outraged public sentiment at Carnegie, Pennsylvania, invoked the aid of the American Civil Liberties Union in making good its right to peaceable assembly, free speech and free movement; Information on the golden jubilee of the invention of the typewriter; Statement of Secretary John W. Weeks in reply to criticism of U.S. military expenditures; Information on the new Intra-Wall Correspondence Schools in Columbus, Ohio, for the uplift of the inmates of every penitentiary in the U.S.; Clash between Ku Klux Klan and John C. Walton, Governor of Oklahoma; Criticism of the fine imposed by the American government on the steamships which crossed the line a few minutes before midnight on August 31, 1923; Information on the practice of commandeering personal property belonging to citizens of enemy countries; Information on the brutality of the British government in penalizing many luckless individuals who happen to be enemy aliens; Victory of the Ku Klux Klan in the municipal election at Portland, Maine; Statement of Lady Eleanor Smith in support of her father Earl of Birkenhead, F.E. Smith.

Discusses the dispute between Russia and Japan for control of Siberia. United States refusal to recognize the Far Eastern Republic; Political history of the Far Eastern Republic; History of the guerrilla warfare in eastern Siberia.

Presents information about several developments around the world. Information about the post-war negotiations in Europe; Efforts of Prime Minister Koki Hirota to form a new Cabinet in Japan; Comments on U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's new tax policy; Information about the employment and earning in manufacturing industries; Results of an investigation into the lobbying against the Wheeler-Rayburn Bill in the last session of the U.S. Congress.

Presents news briefs, related to various social and political issues. Action of the United Textile Workers in calling off the strike in the cotton mills; Declaration of martial law by Governor Eugene Talmadge in Georgia; Suspension of the inquiry by a committee of the United States Senate into the munitions business; Investigation about the kidnap and murder of the baby of U.S. aviator Charles Lindbergh by German man Richard Hauptman; Efforts of Germany to suppress the identity of Hauptman; Press campaign held for praising the police for catching Hauptman; Approval of American socialist and political candidate Upton Sinclair's "Epic" plan, in the Democratic Convention of California; Chances of wining the elections for Sinclair; Dispute between Russia and Japan-Manchukuo over the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway; Price for the Eastern Railway demanded by the Soviet Union; Topic of health insurance to be discussed in the report of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Cabinet Committee on "Economic Security"; Reasons for the strike of lettuce trimmers and pickers in the Salinas Valley, California; Labor unions involved in the strike; Demands of the strikers to increase wages; Efforts of German dictator Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, to take all women out of the industry.

Focuses on political and economic developments in the U.S. and all across the world. Step taken by the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks in buying government bonds; Analysis pertaining to the likely war in Manchuria in the face of rising crisis between Japan and the Soviet Union; Discussion that German ruler Adolf Hitler is favored by the development among the Danubian countries and in the Balkans, where France seems to be trying to destroy German trade, and by Polish and Lithuanian aggression on the German border; View that a Mayor of New York is organizing a nationwide series of anti-prohibition parades to take place in support of a demand that beer be legalized; Information about the obituaries of Julia Lathrop, first head of the Children's Bureau of the U.S. government, and Patrick Geddes, British biologist, city planner, thinker and Writer.

The article provides world news briefs. U.S. troops have been sent to Dutch Guiana to protect supplies of the aluminum ore bauxite. The nations opposing Japan's "new order" in the Pacific include America, Britain, China, Dutch East Indies and Russia, also known as the ABCDR powers. The U.S. Supreme Court voted the anti-migrant law in the case Edwards v. California to be unconstitutional.

The article provides world news briefs for the week ending September 22, 1941. The United States is pressuring Japan to break relations with other Axis nations with the threats of a blockade if she refuses. German fighting at the Russian city of Leningrad intensified, while a Russian counter-attack toward Smolensk has regained considerable territory. The Argentine Chamber of Deputies approved a resolution censuring the German Ambassador for abusing diplomatic privileges.

The article provides world news briefs for the week ending August 11, 1941. German advances have been halted on the old Soviet-Polish frontier with the only significant German advance being the encirclement of Smolensk. Moscow reports that two German spies were arrested at a Russian railroad station after explaining they had government work at the city of Viatka, which hasn't existed in seven years. The U.S. is suffering a shortage of silk now that silk supplies from Japan have been cut off.

The article provides world news briefs for the week ending August 4, 1941. German gains in the Soviet Union were the smallest recorded in any week since Germany crossed over the Russian border; German communiques report vigorous counter-attacks. A bill authorizing U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to indefinitely extend service periods for draftees and National Guardsmen is coming up before the U.S. Senate. President Roosevelt admitted that the policy of appeasement for Japan has not worked.

Focuses on political developments in the world, with emphasis on political conditions in the U.S. Statement that Earl Browder, leader of the American Communist Party, has been arrested on the charge of giving false information in applying for a passport, a serious offense under federal law; Seizure of the American ship by the German navy while carrying contraband to British ports; Discussion of the Nazis' propaganda; Description of the elections that have taken place in the Soviet-held provinces of Poland; View of Ambassador Joseph C. Grew on Japan's invasions of American rights in China; Statement that Soviet Union had suddenly increased her aid to China in the present war with Japan; Discussion of aerial mines used by the British government to defend against airplanes; Description of the labor-standards law in the U.S.; Statement that the Auto Workers' Union trying to Sovietize industry, as the Chrysler Corp. company at first charged, by insisting on having a share in the fixing of production standards on the assembly line; Information on Arnaldo Cortesi, Rome correspondent of the periodical "The New York Times"; The New York State Chamber of Commerce, at its first fall meeting, October 5, deferred action on the report of its special committee on economical and efficient education; Statement that the Nazis announced that the final installment of the billion-mark fine assessed against the Jews after the assassination of Secretary of the German Embassy Ernst von Rath will fall due November 10.

The article presents comments on various news stories from the week of May 10, 1939. Topics discussed include U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's request for an increase in funding for the Works Progress Administration, opponents to the U.S. Neutrality Act, U.S. foreign relations with Japan, and Pulitzer Prizes.

Focuses on the socio-political and economic news from the world. Information on the Hessian Day Rally; Profiles Justice Louis D. Brandeis; Announcements by Spanish Premier Juan Negrin and General Jose Miaja that the Spanish republic will fight on; Announcement of a national Crusade for God in Government by the Right Reverend Joseph Corrigan, rector of the Catholic University of America; Controversy over the audit reports of Price Waterhouse and Co.; Criticism of Herbert Hoover, the Republican Party headline speaker for election campaign of 1940 and ex-President of the U.S.; Information on the Japanese attacks on the Soviet Union; Speculation on the supply of Russian oil to Italy and Germany; Controversy on the appointment of the federal court judges in the U.S.; Information on the session of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor; Results of the 1936 survey of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which shows that the consumers cooperation has increased; Message of U.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the need for initiating at once an extra Works Progress Administration appropriation for $150,000,000; Report that last week 4,000 women lined up to apply for just twelve jobs in the laboratories of the New York Health Department; Information on the exhibition of the paintings of painter Robert Hallowell at the Paul Reinhardt Galleries in the New York City, beginning February 20, 1939; Worry of Switzerland of German dictator Adolf Hitler's conception of neutrality; Permission given to German Jews to earn a living in Germany; Introduction of a legislation to permit the entry of 20,000 German refugees children fourteen years old or younger into the U.S. during this year and 1940 by Senator Robert F. Wagner; Information on the first showings of the semi-official documentary film "Spain Fights On," in the New York City; Charges of the Dean of Columbia Teachers' College that the Communists paid young people $3 a day to pose as students at Columbia and agitate.

The article presents a number of domestic and international news briefs describing events that took place during a week in February 1938. Among a number of items presented is a report that Japan refused to reveal naval building plans to the United States, Great Britain and France, that Adolph Hitler of Germany met chancellor Schuschnigg of Austria and that the economic depression in the United States continued unabated.

Offers a look at the importance of a peace agreement between Great Britain, the US. and Japan to achieve world peace. Ineffectivity of the League of Nations in maintaining peace between countries; Details on the vital decisions for preserving peace; Accounts on the political reason for the U.S. to fight the war for principle of universal application.

Reports on difficulties faced by the U.S. authorities and policymakers in retrenching the U.S. military forces. Reasons for retrenchment of the forces; Analysis of political dynamics of Asia vis-a-vis the U.S.; Importance of Japan in Asian policy of the U.S.; Views of policymakers on different military bases maintained by the U.S. in different parts of Asia.

Comments on several issues relevant to foreign and domestic policies in the U.S. Political conventions; Decision by China to hold out against a treaty brokered by the U.S. to resolve China's territorial dispute with Japan over the Shantung territory; Revolt of the Ukranians that complicated the military situation in Europe.

Presents information on the developments in stock market in the U.S. Information that the Dow-Jones average of industrial stock prices rose from the wartime low of 93 on April 28, 1942, to 202 on January 19, 1946; Reason for an irresistible upward drive is the defeat of Japan; Issues in the low-priced category registered the heaviest trading; Information that Series E United States War Bonds will generate 2.9 percent on your investment at maturity.

The author reflects on the possibility for an occurrence of a war between the U.S. and Japan due to their commercial rivalry for the trade of China. He analyzes another issue that can trigger between the two countries, which is the U.S. strict immigration laws that irritated the Japanese government. However, he emphasizes the lack of interest of Japan for any form of military glory can contribute to the impossibility of a war.

Focuses on various political developments in the world with emphasis on the political condition in the U.S. Danger of permanent military occupation of Rhineland by France; Suggestion by U.S. secretary of the treasury Andrew William Mellon on reduction of super-tax; Difficulty in collecting income tax due to war time fiscal policy in the U.S.; View of U.S. President Warren Gamaliel Harding regarding the long interval which elapses between the election of a Congress and its first session; Hearing on a bill toward economic justice and practical stability before the U.S. Committee on Banking and Currency; Demilitarization of the Dardanelles; Capture of Tsingtao and surrounding territory by Chinese bandits; Disclosure of information about supply of arms just before Japanese were to leave Siberia; Civil war execution of Richard Barrett, Joseph McKelvey, Liam Mellowes and Rory O'Connor by the Irish government.

Contends that a more positive outcome of the Washington Conference on Naval Limitation of Armaments will be attained if the American press will be less optimistic and more realistic in reporting the progress of the conference. Danger of giving in to the desire of the American people for a happy ending or to succeed in the conference; Reason why in the case of reduction of armaments it is important to track what has been achieved so far; Progress of the conference on issues concerning China, Japan and the United States; Importance of pointing out what is not done yet than what is said about the conference.

Comments of United States Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes' disarmament proposals. Proposed naval holiday for 10 years; Proposed tonnages of ships to be abandoned by the three major naval powers of the U.S., Japan and Great Britain; Observation that this would leave Japan wholly secure against an attack from the other two; Inability to Japan, on the other hand, to attack the other two because the combined forces of the two is much larger.

Reports developments related to foreign relations. Extension of the military penetration and control by Japan in Peiping and Tientsin, China; Passing of the Wagner-Steagall housing bill by the U.S. Senate; Attempt of the U.S. Congress to rush through the Pittman-McReynolds bill.

Focuses on political developments in the world, with emphasis on political conditions in the U.S. Information on the Chinese crisis that steadily drifted toward open war with Japan; Statement that the U.S. will apply the neutrality legislation by proclaiming the existence of a state of war; Passage of the revised Supreme Court bill by the Senate and passage of the wages and hours bill by a large majority, after considerably weakening the prohibition against child labor; Statement that Charles Michelson, publicity director for the Democratic National Committee, has recently taken on another job and is being denounced for it by the anti-administration press; View that the violence with which Michelson is being denounced is fresh evidence of the hysterical hatred most of the press has for the U.S. administration; Report that things are not going too well for Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana as many of the miners and farmers who formerly supported him do not agree with his fight against U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan; Discussion of the French liner Normandie and the flying ship Cambria of the Imperial Airways; Discussion of an announcement made by Fulgencia Batista, dictator of Cuba related to a new three-year plan for Cuba on the best fascist pattern; Methods by which Wisconsin is dealing with Law and Order Leagues, those fascist seedlings that spring up in areas where strikes are taking place; Discussion of a four-day Unification Congress that took place in Paris in mid-July that resulted in unity between the International Federation of Socialist Students and the International Commission of Communist Students; Description of a speech made by physician Oscar Riddle about the possibilities of forced growth through administering hormones extracted from the pituitary gland.

Presents news briefs related to political and economic developments taking place in several parts of the world. Advantage gained by the rebels in Spain; Attempt of Japan to break up China into a series of autonomous republics; Meeting of the League of Nations' Council to decide upon the membership of Ethiopia and penalties against Italy; Probability of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt being reelected; Information on the U.S. government's plan of conservation and assistance to agriculture; Information on the strike of lettuce-handlers in Salinas, California.

Comments on the political and foreign relations issues in the U.S. Reiteration and amplification of the concrete proposal about navies of Japanese government for the speech in Philadelphia of Ambassador Tako Saito; Desire of Great Britain to effect some sort of compromise between the Japanese and American positions; Accounts on the gossip providing complete details of the "great reconciliation" between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and big industrialists.

Presents information on socio-political developments from across the world. View that murder of Premier Tsuyoshi Inukai marks the coming up of fascism in Japan; Claim that the army has dictated that the new Cabinet must be nonpartisan and non-political, which means that whatever pretense of Parliamentary government was left has been abolished and a military dictatorship established; Claim that arguments of Al Smith for a sales tax and against high income rates on rich men are both anti-social and juvenile; Statement by Owen D. Young that he does not want the Democratic nomination for the presidency; Election campaign, for the reelection of President Herbert Hoover, by W. Irving Glover.

Focuses on an announcement made by Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana that if the U.S. enters in a war he would support his country. Information on the war between the U.S. and Japan; Reasons for the attack of the U.S. on Japan; Efforts made by Wheeler on the home front for the success of the U.S.; Fight of Wheeler against the power of Anaconda Cooper in his home town.

Presents information on the role played by U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt in the World War II. Efforts of Roosevelt to establish peace; Appeal by Roosevelt to all the nations to adopt the policy of negotiation to establish peace; Impact of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on the probable peace talks between the U.S. and Japan; View that Germany wanted peace for the time being to build up her armament and prepare her people psychologically for war; Passage of various neutrality acts in the U.S. to promote peace.

The article provides world news briefs for the week ending August 25, 1941. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the measure to keep drafted men beyond their first year by one vote. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with English Prime Minister Winston Churchill where the U.S. and Britain prepared a set of peace terms called the Atlantic Charter. Japan is reportedly moving closer to the threat of hostilities with both Great Britain and the United States.

Analyses the military policy being adopted by Allied powers in Asia during the World War II. Refusal of French Indo-China to continue negotiations with Thailand under Japan's mediation unless Japanese warships were withdrawn from their waters; Denouncement of Occidental opponents as disturbers of peace by Japanese statesmen; Information that the U.S., Great Britain and the Netherlands have a combined naval force in the Pacific 15 to 20 percent stronger than Japanese navy; Request of the U.S. naval forces from the Congress to appropriate money for the fortification of Guam; Dependence of Japan on the U.S. for a large share of her gasoline, iron and steel scrap, copper and other metals and machine tools; Contention that situations in Asia looks on the surface like a contest of naked imperialisms which ignores the welfare of the native populations involved.

The article presents news briefs concerning U.S. and international politics for the week of October 28, 1940. The political and military goals of Japan in the Eastern and Pacific theaters are discussed. The ideological nature of the war against fascism is mentioned, pointing out the need to mentally separate the German people from their rulers. Legal challenges to examples of conscientious objectors to the draft are outlined.

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.

Discusses several social and political developments around the world. Comment on U.S. President Herbert Hoover's policy for tackling economic depression facing the country; Commentary over the hunger march in Washington, D.C., led by the unemployed; Opinion that Japanese military can not be controlled by the civilian government; Possibility of convicted Tom Mooney, a labor movement leader, getting a pardon; Opposition of Charles E. Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, to a proposal for a national economic council in the U.S.; Comment on the denial by Red Cross to grant assistance to striking miners in Harlan and Bell counties in Kentucky; Deliberation on the poor financial condition facing city governments in the U.S., as suggested by a survey done by Frederick L. Bird of the Municipal Administration Service; Effect of the economic depression on agriculture and rural economy; Discussion of the brutal suppression of the effort to form a labor union in Brooklyn Edison Company by the management of the company.

The article presents an exploration into U.S. President Jimmy Carter's policy on the U.S. steel producing industry in 1977. Controversy surrounding claims of unfair international competition in the steel market between Japan and the U.S. is highlighted. Efforts and demands being made by domestic steel unions and companies are outlined and compared with President Carter's reactions in favor or against them.