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This article presents information concerned with discriminatory voting practices in Negroe-populated county, Ruleville of Mississippi. This Congressional District has been represented by Jamie Witen, chairman of the House Apropriations Subcommittee on Agricuture. For the thirteenth term election from this place, Fannie Lou Hamer was the Congress sponsored candidate against Witen. According to Mississippi law the names of all persons who take the registration test must be in the local paper for two weeks. As part of her voter-registration work, Hamer has been teaching citizenship classes, working to overcome the bad schooling Delta Negroes have received.

The article presents information on political developments in Italy during the early 1890s. Never since the first elections after the proclamation of the kingdom of Italy in 1860 have such excitement prevailed-among candidates, electors and journalists. The general public does not care a fig who gets in or who remains out. During this time the nation has been governed as in the old days of despotism-royal decrees taking the place of laws discussed and voted in Parliament, old taxes increased and new ones imposed without the sanction of the national assembly. The ministerial pretext is that the electoral lists had to be revised and that this could not be done in a shorter time. Now, at least, it is done with a vengeance and some half a million of electors have been struck off the list.

Reflects on the speech given by U.S. Senator Warren Harding in accepting the Republican presidential nomination. Harding's display of self-approval during the campaign; Excerpts from Harding's speech; Harding's character revealed during the campaign; Leadership qualities; Performance in the Senate; Political platform for the country.

Presents information on the plan for introducing a resolution for congressional investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. Debates on the question of refusing or permitting Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, the retention of the seat to which he was returned elected in November, 1922; Charges of fraud and corruption against Mayfield; Information on fraudulent ballots bearing Mayfield's name; Violation of election code of conduct by Mayfield; Statement of expenses account filed by Mayfield shows that he is guilty of overspending in election campaigns.

Presents the author's views regarding the political developments in Warsaw, Poland in the wake of free elections in January 1947. Employment of force by the left-wing government to weaken its opposition; Disfranchisement of large numbers of opposition voters; Arrangement for evasion of secret-ballot provisions of the law; Indulgence of the government's security police in terroristic physical violence against the opposition candidates of Vice-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party.

The article discusses the start of the election campaign in Great Britain and the changes that were made in the British electoral system since the last election in 1945. British election laws prohibit the paying for bands, torches and banners during the campaign and providing refreshments to voluntary workers and gifts to voters. Some of the changes that were made in the British election setup include the abolishment of the business premises vote and the twelve university seats. The campaign launched by socialist John Edwards is described.

The legislatures of several U.S. states are considering measures for the publication and limitation of campaign expenditures, but thus far no law on the subject has been enacted this year. A bill prohibiting the contribution of money in any form by any person, agent, committee, company, association, or corporation to any person or organization of any kind for use in elections and forbidding the receipt of such contributions by anybody for such use, has been passed by one house of the Rhode Island Legislature. The Massachusetts bill requires that all committees assisting in the nomination, election, or defeat of any candidate for political office shall have treasurers.

Focuses on the presidential elections in the U.S. during the World War II. Fact that California law provides that working men may take out two hours of working time on election day in order to cast their votes. Prediction of a gain of four to six congressional seats for the Democrats; Information that Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner is in a mess, and the possibilities of a clear victory for him are consequently hard in Michigan; View that labor bears almost as heavy a responsibility for the outcome of the Illinois senatorial elections; Formulation of an ambitious and politically practical plan for achieving victory in Ohio.