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The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of April 24, 1971. U.S. foreign economic and political relations with China are discussed in detail. The forced closings of domestic paper mills due to Federal anti-pollution standards are reviewed. The State Department's foreign training programs for police methods and anti-communism is described.

The article reports on Taoist leaders Li Kwei-ying and Chiang Chang-en in Hunan Province in China who were sentenced to death for allegedly preparing paper-made warships and armaments in a vicious attempt to equip an army of the dead and attack the Communist Party. It notes that for Taoist, objects can be passed to the spirit world if paper representations are burned. It says that at first the two were given only eight years but a mass demonstration protested that it was a too light punishment.

The article reports on the documents of Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung during the 1966-1968 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Accordingly, the document include the secret letters, speeches, and other writings of the great Chinese leader. It notes that the documents, owned by the U.S. State Department, show the interests of Mao Tse-Tsung on proverbs, folk tales, and metaphors.

The article focuses on the issue regarding the suspended visit of Cambodia Prince Norodom Sihanouk in the Soviet Union in 1965. It mentions the event in North Korea, during Sihanouk's state visit, when a Soviet ambassador allegedly met and praised him, but gave him an old paper stating that the Soviet leaders were busy to welcome him on the appointed November 7, 1965 visit in Russia. It also relates on the previous state visit made by Sihanouk in Red China, which is in conflict with Russia.

The article focuses on Cowles family, their Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. and its newspaper "Minneapolis Tribune and Star." It notes that above any Midwestern rivals, Cowles' papers showcase reporting and editorials that apt to tell how the world is evolving and what time it is. It tells that the Cowles had supported the Berlin, Germany and U.S. hostilities into Korean war, but when Communist China intervened, they urged U.S. to pull back, implying that Korea might be strategically futile.

Having said its piece on China, the Department of State ought now to pass to the delicate problem of inter-American relations. There is great need for a White Paper on the good-neighbor countries, one that will, reject sentimentality, face facts and speak out in an unembarrassed voice. It would be desirable, too, to hasten the release of such a policy pronouncement. Washington D.C. is unfortunately ill prepared to undertake a realistic appraisal of the present state of affairs in South America. The purgative of the China White Paper has not yet taken effect and nervous officials are reminding themselves that the full story of Marshall Plan aid will soon have to be told.

This article focuses on foreign policy of the Unites State on China. According to the author, when Secretary of State of the United States stated in the recently issued White Paper on China that it was American policy to wait for the dust to settle before making any major new decisions about China, he laid himself and the Administration open to a sustained and savage attack. Criticism concentrated on the suggestion that the Department of State, having failed in a weak policy of insufficient action, was trying to retreat to a still weaker policy of total inaction.

The article features Chinese artist Chen Chi and his artworks. It claims that Chi's works were influenced by both Eastern and Western culture. It cites the book privately printed by Chi titled, "Two or Three Lines From Sketchbooks of Chen Chi," which contained his sketches. Chi mainly uses the watercolor as a medium in his works, but he also paints in oil. He uses Chinese rice papers for his watercolor paintings.

Focuses on the spread of communist activities in China while discussing the foreign policy of the U.S. towards China. Details about the U.S. State Department White Paper on China which presents a factual day-to-day record of wishfulness and unrealism on the part of the Chinese National Government; Conclusion that emerges from this publication of the White Paper; Discussion of possible steps the U.S. can take to save Asia from a dreary century of Communism; Predictions made by the U.S. Foreign Service officers after the Second World War regarding the civil war in China; Efforts made by the U.S. government to save Chiang Kai-shek, head of Nationalist government on Taiwan; Reference to the armed Communist movement in China in 1946.

This section offers news briefs related to businesses outside the U.S. as of September 1937. Exporters in Germany fear drastic decline in their performance since an outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai, China was reported. Businesses in London, England expect an improvement in their income despite the increased materials costs during the year. The Russian government launched a program which aims to promote the daily production of several commodities like coal, steel and oil.

Focuses on several socio-political issues around the world. Decision of France and Great Britain to publish a "blue book" and a "white paper" giving the correspondence and other pertinent documents regarding terms of the Anglo-French naval agreement; Acceptance of the French view that trained reservists are not to be counted as part of official military strength of any nation, by England in exchange for the naval agreement; Intentions of the Nanking government to proceed vigorously toward the abolition of extraterritoriality.

Reports on censorship on press in six countries. Suspension of papers by the Ministry of Information of Portugal; Censorship of press by Spain's dictator, Francisco Franco; Restriction to publish dispatches by foreign correspondents and domestic newspapers are still subject to censorship by the Civil and Provincial Governments in India; Control over domestic media of communication in Soviet Union; Discussion of censorship of domestic press in Poland; Ownership of Chinese newspaper by the political party Kuomintang.

The author comments on Red China's Five-Year Plan. According to the plan, national output will have gone up by 51.1%, while industrial production has been ordered to increase by 98.3%. However, China, for all its 600 million people, is still far from being a first-class power even if every goal were reached exactly. There is a difference between having the power to oppress 600 million people and the power needed to convert latent energy into growth which marks a first-class power.

As a discussion historic events and a compilation of pertinent documents the U.S. State Department's monumental White Paper on China will be an invaluable source book for years to come. As an apologia for American policy in China it is unconvincing. Apparently, the attack of a cardinal on former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has not only succeeded in causing embarrassment to many Catholics, but has ruined the chance for any federal aid to schools by the current session of the U.S. Congress.

The article offers information on the iron and steel production strategy of Chinese premier Mao Tse-tung. The goal for iron and steel production in China has been raised to 10.7 million tons by the Chinese government. Several peasant farmers have been organized in labor camp communes. New group of iron smelting ovens being used for production are built on the anthill design. China also has five modern steel centers operating and a sixth under construction in Paotou in North China.

By definition all alliances entangle. To have value to its signatories, to survive stresses and strains, an alliance must be based on mutual interests. Paper bonds alone do not tie effectively. An alliance will prove reliable only as long as all the signatories continue to fear the contingency, or party, against which it was originally directed. There must be, moreover, reasonable assurance that, acting together, the signatories are capable of meeting the contingency. Above all, an alliance should serve the interests of all parties, and not merely the interests of one to the detriment of the others.

The outbreak of widespread fighting in China, approximating civil-war conditions, has weakened but not destroyed the remarkable myth that has grown up around the U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley. Only a few weeks ago the newspapers were hailing General Hurley, back-slapping oil man turned diplomat, for having at last achieved a settlement between the Chungking government and the Communist regime at Yenan. Some papers even hinted that he had arranged the recent pact between China and Soviet Union. Although it is now apparent that Hurleys diplomacy failed to bring unity, few Americans realize the extent of his responsibility for the present civil strife.

The author says that separate but related scraps of information, and the sotto voce complaints of middle-echelon State Department officials, suggest that the greatest barrier to substantial progress in the Warsaw talks with China is the intransigence of the U.S. military. Yet U.S. President Richard Nixon must implement this policy in the face of military obstructionism, aided by persons within the intelligence community, that comes uncomfortably close to insubordination. Preparing for resumed talks, the U.S. government drew up background papers that proposed an exchange of journalists, scholars, scientists and scientific information, and the "regularization" of postal service and telecommunications.

The article reports on the 22,000,000 pounds war freight recorded by the Office of War Information in the first half of 1944, which is worth about 79 million U.S. dollars excluding outbound traffic. The Himalayas from China to India route and the Karachi, India to the U.S. via Africa route and the South America route are some of the most popular destinations of the war freight. The main lone that runs to Trinidad and Puerto Rico from New York via Bermuda also makes it as one of the popular destinations as it close to Miami, Florida.

At Shanghai, the British, supported by Italians are defending a line, which reaches far beyond the boundaries of the International Settlement into purely Chinese territory. They have not bothered to give any excuse, not even to explain that their promises to observe China's national integrity are mere "scraps of paper"; like the Germans in Belgium thirteen years ago, they have simply taken the most convenient course. Meanwhile Sun Chuang-fong, recently lord of five provinces, is fading out of the picture.

The article focuses on "Cheng Ch'i Chung Hua Jih Pao" (Righteous China Daily News), the only newspaper in Quemoy Island. It notes that the seven-says-a-week paper, backed by Quemoy Military Defense Command, reserves most of its 7,000 daily copies for free distribution to troops and sells the balance to local villagers. It tells that the Red Chinese artillery that had propelled 575,000 shells into Quemoy since August 1958 gave severe difficulties to Director Tsao Yi-fan and editor Huang Pang-fu.

A letter to the editor and an answer to it are presented as of May 15, 1971 in response to an article featuring the former palace of Buddhist leader Dalai Lama in Lhasa, China.

The article reports that the Chinese government in February 147 employed U.S. companies Marsman and Vinell to transport 584 million U.S. dollar worth of excess war products from Pacific Islands including Guam, Saipan, and Iwo Jima to compensate for the reconstruction program in China.

The article features artist Pang Tseng-Ying, who hold forty-five exhibitions and received thirty-five awards since his arrival to the U.S. in 1966. The works made by Pang were first seen during a one-man show sponsored by the National Association of Women Artists in 1954. According to the author, his experience of watching Pang paint has enabled him to see the depth of the artist, who possesses a big amount of resource of the imagery of Chinese painting through the centuries.

The article focuses on the outlook for U.S. foreign policy. U.S. position for a Pacific Union is explained in relation to priority given to Europe. Decisions subsequent to the release of the China White Paper are presented together with suggestions from Great Britain for order in Southeast Asia. Plans of the International Monetary Fund to restore drawing rights to Marshall Plan countries are examined as well as the signs of solid prosperity in France. The effect of the Commonwealth agreement on trade between India and Great Britain are also evaluated.

The article reports on the execution of counterrevolutionaries by the Communists in China. It was reported in a Communist paper in Hunan province that landowners were being executed by peasant militiamen armed with spears and rifles. It is noted that the killing in China has raised concerns among Communist leaders in Peking and public trials and executions were excuses for the failure of Chinese forces to win the war in Korea.

The article focuses on the implications of the appointment of Kao Kang at the Chinese State Planning Committee. Kao has been the Communist leader of Mukden. His appointment was applauded by a group of Soviet artists. According to the author, Kao's appointment abolishes six regional government and military administrations in favor of centralization.

The article focuses on the publication of several newspapers and periodicals in China.

The article reports on the move of China to address their food shortage, wherein they started purchasing grain imports that improves the world tramp shipping business.

Reports global developments related to various topics. Anniversary of the war in China and in Spain; War scare in Europe; Judicial action by District Judge Homer A. Fuller of Newton, Iowa.

The article presents the views of the author on the Chinese students. According to the author the preeminent need of the Chinese student of this generation is encouragement. The minds of the Chinese students can be classified into three fairly distinct stages of development. First stage is a complete bewilderment with the modern trend of affairs. Second stage is of a profound depressions and pessimism. In the third stage is a bitter determination to win somehow in the end and wrest at least a sort of order out of the chaos in China.

The article discusses some socio-political issues in the United States. Over three hundred citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, probably as good a representation of the intelligence, virtue, and patriotism of the city as could be produced, the venerable lawyer Horace Binney heading the list, have signed an address to the members of the U.S. Congress for the city, calling their attention to the Jenekes bill for the reform of the Civil Service, and asking for it, or something similar, their zealous support. People have been hoping for the last fortnight to see custom official Robert Hart's notes on the Chinese question, which have recently been made public, make their appearance in some of the papers in this part of the country which inflicted such awful chastisement a few weeks ago on businessman Ross Browne and the degraded American and British merchants who drew him out on the China question.

This section offers news briefs on international business as of November 25, 1931. The 2 percent import tax to be added to present duties in France will not be applied to raw materials but will be increased to 4 percent on semi-manufactures and to 6 percent on manufactures. There has been an increase in demand for larger imports and dollar exchange in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay. Japanese goods are being boycotted in China.

This section offers international business news briefs. Japan announced that it will open a central bank in Peking, China which will lay the groundwork for monetary reform in all of China under Japanese occupation. The provincial government of Quebec has purchased a gold mine to be used as a practical training school for young miners. English River Pulp Co. will start construction of a large pulp and paper plant in Northern Ontario.

The article offers information on the observations on China by "Time" correspondent Jerrold L. Schecter who was allowed to stay in the country after the Peking summit. His observations include China's industrial ingenuity through homegrown industries including the Shanghai Watch Factory, which was founded in 1955 and has 55 workers, and the Shanghai Automobile Factory which produces two-ton trucks. Schecter also noticed some Chinese cultures including premarital sex which is considered a taboo.

This article discusses the growth of the textile industry in the British colony of Hong Kong in the 1960s. It attributes the growth to the colony's exports of garments to U.S. companies, the rising number of tourists arriving and the influx of workers from China. It expects the trend to continue to contribute to the development of Hong Kong economy. The article warns about the possible impact of textile quotas on the industry.

Presents information on the socio-political relationship between China and the Soviet Union. Views on the "White Paper" issued by the U.S. State Department on the United States-Chinese relations that replaced a faulty early appraisal of the Chinese communists; View that the regime that emerged on the Chinese mainland was not a satellite of the Soviet Union; Views on the political tensions between China and the Soviet Union.

The article discusses a report based on a handout calling for a more liberalized U.S. policy toward Communist China in 1966. It states that the piece was written by "The New York Times" bureau chief Tom Wicker emphasizing that the handout had been signed by 198 academic experts in China belonging to the Association for Asian Studies. It also notes the defiance of Peter Gosling, the association's national secretary, citing that Wicker's article was factually inaccurate.

This article discusses the book "Problems of the Pacific, 1933. Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Banff, 1933." There are two papers in this volume by Chinese delegates, which deserve special mention. One, by Gideon Chen, is entitled "Chinese Government [Nanking] Economic Planning and Reconstruction," the other is "The Agrarian Problem in China," by Chen Han-seng. Gideon Chen's report seems to have been one of the chief propaganda bids for foreign capitalist loans and investments in China.

This article presents information regarding the book "The Chinese: Their Education, Philosophy, and Letters," by W.A.P. Martin. This volume is appropriately dedicated to Professor William D. Whitney, and in a prefatory note its author informs him that most of the essays have been already published in China under the title of "Hanlin Papers," and are now offered to the public only as a bundle of "Beitriige," a small contribution towards the better understanding of China and the Chinese. Out of the seventeen papers four are likely to attract the most attention in the U.S., though all will be valuable to students in China itself. These are "Competitive Examinations in China," "The Ethical Philosophy of the Chinese," "The Renaissance in China," and "The Worship of Ancestors in China."

The article reports on the cold war between Russia and China. It mentions that the nature and size of the break up can shape the course of the cold war and the strategists from the West have studied the evidence to help function its dimensions. It notes that despite the deepness and reality of the split, both countries are Communist and are dedicated to the same determined end winning of the world to Marxism.