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Explores the implication of the 1968 election of opposition party candidate Luis Ferre as governor of Puerto Rico on the status of Puerto Rico as a commonwealth of the U.S. Recount of how the administration of former Governor Luis Muñoz Marin capitalized on the commonwealth status; Consequences for the future of Puerto Rico; Effect of the Ferre election on the nation's development program.

Comments on the plan of the Ford administration to convert Northern Marianas as a territory of the U.S. Dismemberment of the United Nations trusteeship in the western Pacific; Support of this effort by the liberals; Initiative of the administration to avoid congressional opposition to the plan; Discussion on a proposal to enter into a covenant with the people of the Northern Marianas to create a Commonweath of the Northern Mariana Islands and extend the U.S. citizenship to its people; Motives behind the proposed annexation; Citations of the statements of the critics of the proposal.

Comments on the report made by Carmi A. Thompson, appointed by President Calvin Coolidge to the Office of Special Commissioner, which contains recommendations regarding Philippine independence. Thompson's urge to the American Congress not to pass laws invalidating Philippine statute limiting the size of plantations; Criticism regarding Thompson's opposition to grant independence; Proposal to give the Islands their independence at a fixed date some years in the future; Assertion that such a plan meets most of the important difficulties brought up by Thompson.