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Focuses on the strategy of General Charles de Gaulle to remain in power in France. Appearance of de Gaulle in radio and television; Expression of personal tribute to the political leaders of the Fourth Republic; Presentation of the blueprint for a Fifth French Republic to the French people.

Focuses on the transfer of political power in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stimulation of inter-racial hostility; Migration of Negro; Change in Negro vote.

The article focuses on several socio-political issues around the world during 1957. U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower won a great diplomatic victory with the Russians at Geneva, although he failed even to bring up the fact that they had started supplying arms to Nasser. Great Britain and France started on their disastrous intervention, This was a mistake but, under the circumstances, at least understandable Eisenhower reacted in characteristic terms of moralistic naivete. The U.S. is always unctuous always sanctimonious always moralistically naive and generally wrong.

Analyzes the correlation between industrial power and political prestige. Concept of a realistic economic response by the U.S. to the new Soviet Union offensive outlined by Tom Whitney; Belief held by the military strategists that military power and industrial power had a one-to-one correlation; Reasons why some military strategists are concluding that the orthodox power is unrealistic; Changes in beliefs related to industrial power summed up by L.L. White in his book "Everyman Looks Forward"; Chances that the Soviet Union may be able to use its rising economic output to flood underdeveloped countries with capital goods, or even to dump their goods in Western markets below commercial prices so as to disrupt Western economies.

Presents an article about the power struggle between U.S. House Speaker Joe Cannon and House Rules Committee Chairman George Norris in 1965. Background of the political careers of Cannon and Norris; Observations on their political leadership.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Student-based political power in college towns; Quality of the campus of the University of Virginia; Failure to give credit to politician Lyndon B. Johnson who predicted the Watergate scandal.

The article focuses on the efforts of the nation of Qatar to build up its international affairs and negotiation efforts in the Middle East. Topics include Qatar's intervention in the rebel movement during the Libyan Conflict of 2011, its ties with countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, and its role in negotiation in international conflicts such as an international resolution in Lebanon and in Africa. It is suggested that Qatar is trying to gain power and influence in the geopolitics of the Middle East.

Profiles Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords' role as an icon after he left the Republican Party and altered the balance of power in the U.S. politics. Ways in which Jeffords has charmed the national media; Defection of Jeffords from the Republican Party on issue of special education funding; Details of Jeffords' protest vote against the conference report.

Focuses on the hostile takeover of the television station, NTV by forces allied with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Actions of the journalists; Public response to the takeover; Role of the media in politics; View that public distrust of the mass media has given Putin a clear field to do with NTV what he will, with no apparent political consequence; View that the NTV fight is only Exhibit A of Putin's drive to consolidate power in the country.

Focuses on issues related to partisanship in the U.S. Congress. Lack of genuine partisanship as the real problem in politics at the time; View that the new nihilistic partisans are abandoning almost everything they believe in merely to obtain power for power's sake; Forms of partisanship in American political history; View that as the ideological differences between the two parties have blurred under President Bill Clinton, both parties have completely abandoned their supposed principles.

Argues that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is relying on the support of Israel's religious parties to cement his hold on power. Netanyahu's alleged involvement in a political scandal damaging his standing with political centrists; Political clout of religious parties in Israel; Efforts made by Netanyahu to court their support.

Argues that the dismissal of national security chief Alexsandr Lebed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in October 1996 demonstrates the absence of democracy in the country and the decay of the country's political system. Explanation that the actions of President Yeltsin are indication of autocracy; Similarity of the power struggle between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky during the 1920s with that of Lebed and cabinet minister Anatoly Chubais as of October 1996; Lack of commitment to democracy by President Yeltsin; Alternative political system preferred by President Yeltsin in lieu of suggestion to establish representative political institutions; Views that Yeltsin follows a logic of personal autocracy that substitute time honored despotic practices for popular support; Political changes in Russia that would ensure its survival.

Defends U.S. President Bill Clinton's foreign policy against criticism that it lacked an international strategy commensurate with the stature of U.S. power. Views that the last thing U.S. foreign policy needs is a grand strategy; Criticism against the implementation of the foreign policy doctrine of assertive multilateralism; Claim that President Clinton's flexibility in foreign policy was successful.

Calls for the resignation of U.S. Senator Bob Packwood for being involved in sex scandals. Efforts of Packwood to protect his position; Comparison of the behavior of Packwood with that of the behavior of alpha male primates; Privileges attendant to being a legislator.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Jerusalem: A Tale of One City," which described Jewish and Arab communities in Jerusalem; "The Elephant Man," which examined U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich's paper on the balance of world power; "Twin Pique," which investigated the intelligence quotient of ethnic groups; "Alice in Chains," which analyzed the Republican political agenda Contract of America.

Presents a profile of Phillip Burton, a U.S. statesman. Statement that Burton was one of those rare people who knew how to forge the nexus between liberal policy and political power; Comments on the political prudence of Burton; Emphasis on Burton's list of accomplishments; Reference to views of Burton on Family Assistance Plan.

Several letters to the editor in response to articles and topics published in previous issues, such as "Political Pac-Man," by Mark Green dealing with U.S. federal tax credit, "Enigma of Power," by Irving Howe dealing with democratic socialism and sexual love and "Occupational Hazard," by David Seideman, are presented.

Reviews the motion picture "Another Way," directed by Károly Makk. INSET: FILMS WORTH SEEING..

Reports on the increasing political power of United States President, George Bush. Benefits gained by the Bush administration from the Republican Congressmen's decision to support the president's veto of the legislation to guarantee continued asylum to Chinese students studying in the U.S.; Reasons why Bush has more administrative power after one year of being in the office than during his first 100 days of presidency; Small issues exploited by Bush to win over presidential opponent, Michael Dukakis; Bush's type of leadership and why it took quite some time before he was able to gain some political and legislative clout through his brand of leadership.

Focuses on issues associated with political transitions in the U.S. Alternative jobs for former members of the U.S. Congress; Information on the transition offices in Washington; Reference to corporate directorships as a very common means of solace for the loss of power; Details of the unwritten rules of government jobs in Washington, which U.S. President Jimmy Carter has failed to observe.

Focuses on issues concerning the political imbalance that favors the rich in the Congress and in high government positions in the U.S. Provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974, which addressed the political imbalance; Information on recently passed ethics legislation which has put limitations on its own members' outside earned income, while allowing unearned income to grow without limit; Views of several rich people on the significance of politics for their social status; Factor that contributed to the social and psychological instability of the aristocrats.

Discusses the outlook for liberal political action in the United States in light of the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) Political Action Committee's (PAC) acclaimed debut during the presidential campaign. Question of whether PAC will be given enough moral and financial support to make labor a first-class political power; Soundness of the PAC's approach to national welfare and security; Credit it deserves for returning the Democrats to power in 1944; Requisites for assuring the future of post-election liberal political action, which include continuation of the CIO-PAC, with an expanded program, and assumption of the three basic functions of political organization, legislation and public relations; Learning from the political successes and failures of the New Deal.

Focuses on U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's annual message to the U.S. Congress, actually to the U.S. public, to contribute in the World War II. Comments on Roosevelt's understanding of not only the power politics and military strategy of total war, but also of the vast moral gulf that separates the two concepts of world order; Analysis of quotations from his speech; Criticism of Roosevelt's too generous methods of compromise and concession, and the methods of yielding to an embittered opposition rather than fighting it out; Need of hard and basic changes in the structure of economic and political decision along with not only inspiration and heart-searching; Reasons behind failure of the Western world in the ruling economic and political groups; Praise for courage of Soviet and Chinese people during the Second World War.

Presents information on Great Britain's organization Home Guard that trains new soldiers. Efforts of Home Guard in maintaining discipline without punishment or pay; Information on Home Guard being the cheapest force of its size; Report on the source of power for ammunitions for the training school of the Home Guard; Information on beginning of Home Guard as Local Defense Volunteers; Recruitment in the Home Guard except of those reserved for industries and those who were over age; Information on incoming of rifles and machine rifles and machine guns from the U.S.; Opinion of the author on arming the people of Britain not only for their own defense but also for own morale; Report on people who dislike Home Guard; Information on Home Guard being a democratic body; Focus on success of Home Guard in spite of opposition, neglect and money-meanness; Teaching of guerrilla war and street fighting by the author and his colleagues in the organization.

Focuses on the German dominance in Southeastern Europe, which constituted a setback for the Nazis. Report that German dictator Adolf Hitler could either keep hostilities out of Southeastern Europe altogether by the threat of superior power, or he could assimilate it to his regime by a short, and decisive struggle; Demand that Southeastern Europe route should be kept open both, for trade and for political penetration to the East and possibly to Africa as well; View that if Germany were to wrest from Great Britain, the traditional sea route, she could not seize, or hold it without a secure base of operations on the Balkan Peninsula; Fact that the Third Reich does not need the supplies it could obtain over this historic trade route in order to continue the war; Opinion that Germany under the blockade should have an uninterrupted supply of grains and other foodstuffs from the Danube Valley; Existence of an active front which consumes military supplies; Efficiency of the blockade depends largely upon, the speed with which Germany approaches a shortage in critical materials; Possibility of having to deal with Turkey on the other flank, if the hostilities are not quickly ended; Consequence of the war is that Hitler must Win the Battle of the Balkans quickly and decisively in order to make secure his previous victory.

Describes the approach of the United States in using its power. Need for the United States to ensure the communications to France and Great Britain; Existence of certain demand in the United States that a small expeditionary force should go to Europe at once; Focus on United States' acceptance of the whole Allied program in Europe; Discussion of the United States' commitment to all the minor entanglements into which the Allies have been forced by the necessities of war.

Discusses the possibility of peace between Germany and Russia in the midst of the First World War. Absence of cultural bond between Russia and its allies France and Great Britain; Possibility that Russia might swing over from the side of the Western Allies to that of the confederated Teutonic empires; Working up of public opinion in several countries to bring about a coalition of Eastern and Central European Powers; Counter-argument that Russia has her pride and her dynastic necessity for victory; Russian victims of German armaments would demand to know the reason for a Russia-Germany alliance.

Explains that natural leadership is indispensable during war. The habit of giving command and of obeying is a source of immense strength; Spontaneous leader must have some natural pre-eminence or he would not have inspired obedience; Average nature with a slight increment of power makes the representative man; Conflict between natural leadership and paternal authority; Humans can not take political or moral steps in life without becoming subject to leaders; Monarchy is as human as democracy, as religious hierarchy grows up as easily as a commercial one.

Focuses on the importance of the surrender of Tsingtau on the strategy of war and the termination of a period characterized by the balance of power in China and the marking of the beginning of Japan's Far Eastern supremacy. Battery of China and protection by international rivalries ever since Germany seized Kiaochau Bay and the adjacent territory in 1897; Establishment of the German base in Shantung; Balance of interests at China's expense; Consequences of the defeat of Russia and the revolution that followed.

Examines the influence of the Federal Reserve Board on the banking industry in the United States. Members of the Federal Reserve Board; View of the author that the direct power and indirect influence of government over the entire financial and even the entire industrial system of the country is bound to be huge and is likely to increase; View that the greatest check upon the Federal Reserve Board is likely to come from the members of the Board themselves.

Comments on the political condition during wartime in Great Britain. Conduct of life of poeple in readiness for war; Reluctance of business to submit to the necessity of state control in war; Complete powers taken by the government to do anything and suppress every individual liberty in an emergency; Unity shown by the people.

Comments on the outstanding contents of the speech of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the U.S. Announcement of Roosevelt's policy toward the Democratic primaries; Discussion of the specific minor improvements in the Supreme Court; Expression of disdain in the attitude of the conservatives to preserve political power; Admonishment of Mayor Frank Hague for his violation of civil liberties in Jersey City; Authority of the Roosevelt to interfere in the Democratic National Committee.

Focuses on the political events in the U.S. Defeat of the Whig Party in elections; Inauguration of the state Progressive Party; Dominance of political power.

The article focuses on the book "Testament of Experience," by Vera Brittain. Brittain displays, with the rounded fullness of a three dimensional model in front of a search-light, the basic characteristics of the gawdsaker as they were seen in the l930's. Gawdsaking is a political epiphenomenon. Like the shadow cast by a building, it exists as the reflection of something else, which was the power of Great Britain. After the Waterloo peace, British gawdsakers began by lavishing advice, rebukes, denunciations and scoldings on their own governing class. Then they gradually worked outwards, seeking fresh worlds to canker.

The article focuses on the issue of Cold War between Soviet Union and the United States. The problem for the free world posed by the extraordinarily rapid rate of economic growth in the Soviet Union. Cold War is likely to be lost by the West the Soviets continue to demonstrate a capacity for rapid economic growth than the free world. The United States has now, and will increasingly have as each year goes by, all of the economic power it could possibly use to create all the deterrent military power it could possibly need. It makes not the slightest difference if a nation has 120 million tons of steel capacity or 150 million tons if it takes only 5 million tons to produce the necessary military weaponry.

Focuses on the policy of the Soviet Union towards Southeast Asia. Strategy of the Soviets to follow program with little regard to development among the emerging nationalist groups; Realization that Russia might has adopted a policy which might prove advantageous to spread Communism in Asia; Problem for the Western group due to Russian policy of spreading Communism in Southeast Asia; Concentration of the Soviet Union towards Southeast Asia after realization of their inability to gain power through armed struggle; Problem for national leaders of neutralist countries to communicate their attitude towards Communism to population in their countries; Appearance of a new note in Communist Propaganda about the U.S. aid in the Russian economic aid program.

The article discusses the book "How Russia Is Ruled," by Merle Fainsod. Those who do research in Soviet political institutions have long been waiting for professor Fainsod's study on the Soviet system of government. The strongest part of the book is the analysis of the Communist Party as the central core of the Soviet power structure.

The article analyzes how the power will shift if the Republican party forms the majority in the House of Representatives in the United States. With economy in government as one of the great Grand Old Party (GOP) campaign promises this year, control of the House Appropriations Committee would give the Republicans a chance to carry out the arbitrary budget cuts they have attempted, many times successfully, in the past. The next watch-dog over the nation's defenses may be Dewey Short, the boisterous Missouri hill-preacher who leads the shouting and yelling at GOP get-togethers.

Focuses on U.S. President Herbert Hoover's press conferences during the Congressional recess. View that these conferences deprive him of the chance to promote his ideas, aims, and personality, through using the press; View that by refusing to discuss trivialities, he has put a crimp in the most effective form of presidential propaganda; Information on the introduction of several bills by the President; Report that Hoover's position in the Senate is strategically strong and only bad luck or great ineptitude can prevent his holding the balance of power between the two factions--Democrats and the Republicans; View that the divisions and dissensions in the Senate are such as to encourage the Hoover hopes of a tariff outcome which will be reasonably satisfactory to him.

Focuses on the influence of the media and wealth of politicians on American politics. Magnification of the virtues of the wealthy politicians in news reports; Tendency of the mass media to ignore the shortcomings and minimize the faults rich political leaders; Analysis of some of the wealthy political leaders; Political power and influence of rich people.

Presents news concerning politics in the United States. Reasons behind the public perception that President Calvin Coolidge is weak and uninfluential; Effect of the inability of Coolidge to get Congress to approve the Fess bill on the president's political credibility; Reasons why the Republican Party is worried of its chances for the coming elections; Factors that contributed to the decline in the public popularity and the legislative control power of Coolidge.

Presents several letters to the editor. Comments on the powers of a speaker; Comments on the seniority system in the selection of a Speaker; Information on the increase in price of milk products in Great Britain.

The article discusses the socio-political condition of Athens, Greece. Athens was the pinnacle of Greek civilization, its achievements imperishable, its laws democratic, its tradition heroic and its people bold and proud. But Athens failed to grasp the most elemental principles about the free association of nations. For the bond of principle it substituted the bond of power. Fear and exigency led it into the illusion that allies that had been won by coercion would have the stamina of allies won by conviction.

In this article, the author focuses on the increasing determination and power, resulting in race tensions, of Negroes in several American cities and towns, specially in North Carolina. Their increasing participation and activeness in every fields, specially in the field of literature, can better be seen in presents days. For instance, the recent defeat of Senator Frank P. Graham in North Carolina shows how powerful the Negro issue still is. Most Negroes in the area, with the exception of teachers, are workers on farms, in fertilizer factories, or in the lumber yards. Yet their ability to think and to form sound judgments is not affected. In another town, where Negro determination had previously elected a Negro councilman, registration days presented a much brighter picture. Here the Negroes had asked that the law be carried out equally for both whites and Negroes, each to take the same test.

Focuses on political system of the U.S. Opinion of Americans on presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey; Belief that the political mechanisms of a society merely facilitate struggles within the supra-partisan consensus that has determined U.S. foreign and domestic policy for more than two decades; Reasoning used by the U.S. to justify Soviet intervention in Hungary and Czechoslovakia; Drawbacks of the political power structure of the country; Choice available to Americans in the present elections; Foreign and domestic policy of U.S. regarding non-white, poor and the uneducated; Need to reconstruct the American society and political system.

Discusses the economic implications of English theatre and the arts. Tendency to reverse the relationship between power and culture; Differences between the British and U.S. beatniks; Proof of the domination of English fashions and art over those in the U.S.

Profiles special assistant to U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson and White House press secretary Bill Moyers. Family and educational background; Anecdotes illustrating the power and influence wielded by Moyers; Views of several White House staff on Moyers.

Discusses the efforts of French President Charles de Gaulle to restore France to its former rank as world leader and arbiter between Soviets and Anglo-Saxons. Alliances which denied France the opportunity to become a world power; Inconsistencies and contradiction in the diplomatic strategy of de Gaulle; Events which allowed de Gaulle to pursue his ambition of becoming a world power; Conclusion that de Gaulle is willing to anything to restore France to its former glory.