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The article presents information on several books. Some of them are: "An Onlooker's Note-Book"; "A Grand Duchess: The Life of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Elsenach and the Classical Circle of Welmar," by Frances Gerard; "British Rule and Jurisdiction Beyond the Seas," by Henry Jenkyns; and "Colonial Government: An Introduction to the Study of Colonial Institutions," by Paul S. Reinsch. The first book is composed of papers which appeared in the Manchester Guardian during the year 1901, and the number of subjects treated, to judge from titles of the homilies, is very great. Further information on all these books is also mentioned.

The article presents political updates of the world, as of September 21, 1901. The attempt on U.S. President William McKinley's life at Buffalo, New York, on Friday last touched, as it could not fail to do, the national feeling, instantly and deeply. Nor could any moral and humane person hesitate to denounce without reservation the infamy of a crime not to be excused were the victim the meanest, instead of the most exalted, citizen. In another update, in considering the interesting paper of the Oxford, England correspondent, of the journal "Observer," on the causes of imperialism in England, the first thing that occurs to people is that Imperialism, Megalomania, or Jingoism, though there is a sudden access of it at present, is by no means so new a thing as "Observer," seems to assume.

The article focuses on the 33rd annual meeting of the American Historical Association at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The programme reflected, as was natural, the influence of the war and dealt rather more than is usual among historians with current events. In a conference the timely question of imperialism was discussed in a number of excellent papers, Oriental Imperialism, Greek Imperialism, roman imperialism and its decay. The increasing importance to the U.S. of her relations with the Far East found expression in papers on the Occidental attitude towards China by and on Japanese party politics and emigration.

This article presents information regarding archival collection of American history in London, England. These can be found in the library of the Archiepiscopal Palace at Lambeth, the library of the Bishop of London at Fulham, that of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in Delahay Street, and that of the old society now known as the New England Co. There is in the monument room at Fulham a large mass of papers relating to the times when the Episcopal Church in the American colonies was within the jurisdiction of the see of London.

The counter-revolution which took place in Vladivostok on the 26th and 27th of May must be considered a new step in the development of Japan's program of imperialistic expansion in Siberia. The accounts of the coup presented by various Siberian papers arid news agencies bring out very clearly the fact that it owed its success to Japanese intervention. In order to understand what happened in Vladivostok it is necessary to review briefly the events of the last few months in Siberia. After the fall of Kolchak in the winter of 1919-1920 the eastern frontier of Soviet Russia was advanced to Lake Baikal.

According to the author, this paper has bent its energies to the successful prosecution of the war from the day this country took up the struggle against Nazism. Not for one day has it swerved from this cause. It convinced those who were skeptical of the imperialist leaders of what people called a war of the people. What happened in Algiers, Algeria was not the product of a military decision made by a soldier in the stress of battle. People are not impressed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's assurances.

Nowadays an English provincial newspaper, under the heading of "America Day by Day," gives its readers the news of what has happened in the U.S. the day before. Throughout Great Britain also, the daily papers publish longer or shorter accounts of American news. This article focuses on newspapers about a hundred years ago. A newspaper was mainly a composition of paragraphs of news, of letters to the editor, and of advertisements. The editor adopted the views of a correspondent who severely criticized the ministers of the day in their actions towards the American Colonies.

This article discusses the new plan of British Colonial Office for changing the political make-up of another sizable part of the British colonies. Following the pattern which has changed colonies into dominions, the new White Paper will outline plans for uniting three of the large, land-locked British "protectorates" in South-Central Africa into a larger federated union which will be expected eventually to assume an autonomous role. The African natives, however, see the plan mainly as a method by which the White settlers in this part of Africa could freeze White supremacy into the culture of all three territories. The natives prefer their territories to remain wards of Great Britain's Colonial Office in their present status as British protectorates.

This article presents official documents bearing upon the early stages of the U.S. intervention in Nicaragua are taken from the Annual Report of the secretary of the Navy for 1913 and from "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States," published by the U.S. Government, for years 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913. Two dispatches from Thomas C. Moffat, United States Consul at Bluefields, Nicaragua, to Philander C. Knox, United States Secretary of State, predict and confirm the proclamation of Estrada revolution.

The article focuses on the Americana collection of the Pequot Library in Southport, Connecticut. Colonial life was described in ancient, leatherbound volumes kept at the library. The library was home to papers signed by Queen Elizabeth I and Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII and autographs of the founding fathers of the U.S., among others. The collection was transferred to the Yale Sterling Library and was named Monroe, Wakeman and Holman Loan Collection of the Pequot Library Association.

The article focuses on the elimination of imperialism in Africa.

The paper focuses on the article "A Continental Statesman." The article lays great stress on the failure of the new kingdom to come to terms with the Pope. The Papacy, the author says, cannot restore the temporal power, but it cannot be reconciled with the monarchy. The Italian army might suffer a crushing defeat in the field, and a monarchy of revolutionary origin, like that of the Bonapartists or that of the House of Savoy in Italy, would be swept away on the morrow by a wave of popular rage and disappointment.

Jewish problem lies now divided between Palestine and the Diaspora and under the most favorable development of Palestine the scattered Jewries will long continue the overwhelmingly preponderant section as regards population. Palestine is a country little larger than Wales, from which French imperialism has already lopped off a northern slice, while Arab imperialism has robbed it of its extensibility eastwards, at the best it could barely shelter one-fourth of the sixteen million Jews of the Diaspora.

The article presents information about several contributors to the journal The Nation. One of the contributors to the journal is Charles W. Wood. He began his career as a locomotive fireman. He won a prize in an essay contest and got a position on a Syracuse paper. For years he was a special writer for the New York Sunday World and later for Collier's Weekly. Arthur Warner is the associate editor of The Nation. He has given special study to the island victims of American imperialism. He spent some time in Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands in 1923, and wrote a series of articles about those countries for The Nation.

Many accounts have been written of the significant events of 1914, the comings and goings of ambassadors, the grave speeches, the fateful telegrams flashing across Europe through the hot July nights, the mobilizations, and so on. But much less has been written of the trivia of that year. The London of 1914 is now an almost forgotten city, but to me, a young man newly arrived from what was then known as "the Colonies," it was a strange and exciting revelation. The reason for the strangeness, of course, was obvious, but the excitement, was felt by maturer and more sophisticated persons. Almost every day a new sensation seized the interest of the public, and it is curious and significant to recall how many of these sensations, or pseudo-sensations, were used by the press to arouse and flatter the patriotism of the British public.

As a matter of fact the term "Empire" is misapplied. The thing that threatens today the existence of the German people, and has already throttled the people of Ireland and is in course of throttling the people of India, Egypt, Malaya, and a score of other dependencies of the London, England, market is not an "Empire" but an Emporium. England fights only for profit, just as the tradesman deals only for profit. Her wars have always been wars undertaken on a profit and loss account. When the balance lay on the debit side, England sheathed the sword; when it lay on the credit side, she wrapped the whole world in war and from a safe point of observation counted up the gains and assessed the value of her investments in other men's blood.

The article focuses on the book "Memoirs of Barras." The book is a violent pamphlet and diatribe against the Emperor Napoleon and all his family, is now published, a long time after, they were written, by a man who is an ardent Bonapartist, viz, M. George Duroy, son of a historian. The historian was no ordinary man; he may be said to have brought about a revolution in the French University by using in his books the documents and methods of the new historical school. He was a strong liberal and was called to the post of minister of public instruction by Louis Napoleon at a time when the Second Empire was at war with the bishops of the Senate.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics. U.S. President William McKinley's assurance to the Secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League; Comments on President's Message on international actions; Relation between religion and national prosperity.

The article presents information on the book "The End of the War," by Walter E. Weyl. This book sets forth the necessary commonplaces of liberal opinion concerning the peace settlement. Weyl argues that England and France have been fighting, not militarism as such, but its incarnation in Germany as being dangerous to them. Because of her history, Germany has been seeing in militarism an insurance, whereas it could be to democracy only a menace. Weyl recommends the awakening of a vast body of public opinion firmly bent on securing for humanity the blessing for lasting peace and the immediate and active union of internationalists throughout the world.

This article focuses on the book "The Making of British India," by Ramsay Muir. When people consider the mass of original documents available for historians and students of the British period in India, the need of a volume of this convenient compass becomes apparent. While catalogues of official documents are more or less accessible, or are rapidly becoming so, together with the results of the valuable researches of enthusiasts like George Forrest and S.C. Hill, yet a small, synthetic collection of this material has always been desired. In this volume Muir has included the most important dispatches, treaties, statutes, and other documents from 1756 to 1858.

The oppression of Haitian editors under the American occupation was discussed by a Haitian journalist, Carlos Martins, at the International Congress against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism, held recently in Brussels. The Haitian penal code provides that any one detained in a house of arrest has a right to an examination within twenty-four hours, but the examining magistrate named by the phantom-president, in agreement with the High Commissioner, as always, permits weeks to go by without calling the prisoner to his office to question him as to his identity and on the subject of the accusation.

The article presents an overview of magazines for the month of December. The novel "Foregone Conclusions" by William Dean Howell, will have been the most eagerly looked for. In the final installment of "A Rebel's Recollections" the most noticeable fact is that of the religious revival which passed through the Confederate army when all rational hope of success had been abandoned, and which excited a superstitious trust in Providential interference on their side. Scribner's for this month brings to an end the "Great South" series. This energetic undertaking is said, in the editorial notes to have cost the magazine publishers thirty thousand dollars. The papers are to be made into a subscription book for Great Britain and her colonies, as well as the United States; and Messrs.

The article presents information about several contributors to the journal The Nation. One of the contributors to the journal is Leonard Cline. He has contributed the article on Michigan to The Nation's series These United States. His first novel, God Head, will be published very soon. M.M. Knight is yet another contributor to the journal. He is now in Morocco as observer and correspondent at the front. He has been assistant professor of history at Columbia University, specializing in French colonial government.

This article presents information on the Ever since the Soviet-Nazi pact was signed, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexico's pro-Communist labor leader, has been in virtual retirement. He was succeeded as president of the C.T.M. by Fidel Velasquez, an anti-Stalinist, and his political influence vanished when Mexican President went out of office. A few days before the outbreak of the Soviet-Nazi war Toledano attempted comeback by publicly charging Velasquez and President Avila Camacho with being in the service of "Anglo-American imperialism." The attempt failed dismally, but Toledano has now managed a real comeback as leader of a new organization pressing for Latin American support of the Soviet Union and Great Britain.

This article discusses several books in brief. Some of the books are "The Voice of Norway," by Halvdan Koht and Sigmund Skard, "The French Colonies: Past and Future," by Jacques Stern, "McCarthy of Wisconsin," by Edward A. Fitzpatrick, and others. Colonel Fitzpatrick's book is a dignified, vigorous, and always readable introduction, to the career of an enlightened and warm hearted, man who might well serve as a model for the American public servant. Particularly disturbed by Wendell Wilikie's notion that the colonies must be given back to their inhabitants, Stern expatiates on French efforts at education, religious tolerance, and political equality among colonials.

The article presents comments of several foreign newspapers about the American business and way of life. "El Universal" was convinced that the conflicting interests of the U.S. and Russia are creating two worlds and that the U.S. has changed itself into a military power. The "Daily Telegraph" criticized the U.S. for having two contradictory voices guiding its foreign policy. "Le Monde" commented on the display of American naval power as aggressive imperialism.

The article discusses foreign and domestic policy in the U.S. in 1969. Particular attention is given to America's involvement in the Vietnam War. Article topics include the social and political conditions in Southern Vietnam, the American public's perceptions and opinions on the conflict, the concept of Imperialism, the foreign policies of U.S. presidents' Richard Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson, as well as the casualty rates of U.S. soldiers fighting in the War.

The Chinese have always been a curious people and they are possessed of some very queer old customs. The managers of the Greatest Show on Earth seem to have chosen the present Soviet Union government to act as their Invisible Property Man. Officially they refuse to believe that there is such a thing as a Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. As far as Washington is concerned, official Soviet Union simply does not exist. There is some trouble, so it appears, about the exact status of a certain country called Manchuria. Japan wants that country and China wants it or has it and the two nations threaten to go to war with each other on account of this distant and mysterious territory.

This article presents the author's views on the influence of dictator Adolf Hitler on young generation. Most young Germans had been disappointed by the revolution of 1918 and the events that followed. They had believed that a thorough change in economic conditions was necessary; but the German democracy, even in its Social Democratic branch, was essentially conservative In particular, petty-bourgeois idealists who regarded Versailles as a national humiliation were prone to dream about a strong Reich-a mixture of medievalism and modern imperialism; and Hitler seemed to offer this in his Third Reich.

This article discusses several international and domestic issues. Outwardly the move of the U.S. Administration in offering independence to Puerto Rico within four years seems, to the uncritical eye, the generous act of a liberty-loving people. There was no attempt to enlist the counsel or support of Puerto Rican leaders, no impartial investigation of conditions on the island and its relations with the U.S., no open consideration of the grounds of policy. Changes made in U.S. Government's tax bill since its introduction in the House two months ago have been so many and so technical that the voter is left somewhat bewildered regarding the present status of the measure.

Presents an interview with Mao Tse-tung, chairman of the Communist Party of China, about the political condition in China in 1965. Assertion of Mao that China has no troops outside its own frontiers and has no intention of fighting anybody unless its own territory is attacked; Views on whether Viet Cong forces can win victory by their own efforts alone; Reaction to anti-feudal and anti-capitalist sentiments combined with opposition to imperialism and neo-colonialism.

Focuses on the inferior economic and social conditions of Liberia, with reference to the deal between Secretary of State of Liberia Edwin Barclay and Firestone Plantations Co. Reasons cited for treating Liberia as an inferior country; Attitude of other countries toward Liberia; Establishment of Liberia at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution; Coincidence of the development of Liberia with the spread of the New World and the rise of economic imperialism of Europe in Africa; Problems of transportation in Liberia; Economic changes over which Liberia had no control; Negotiations between Liberia and the Firestone Co.

Presents information on political and economic events of several countries. Information about the political situation of Europe; Description of the Dawes plan for economic development in Europe; Information on payments made by Germany for the loss of all her colonies and the abolition of her armies; Comment on the policy of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge about the Ku Klux Klan issue; Information on the arrival of the Prince of Wales in the U.S.; Information about the Cabot Fund report regarding working hours of industrial workers in the U.S.; Reasons which has prevented the League of Nations from adopting the American plan for suppressing the opium traffic through India; Description of the trial and sentence of Bolshevists leader Boris Savinkov by the Soviet Union's Supreme Military Tribunal; Views of U.S. Senator Simeon Fess on forthcoming elections in the U.S.

Presents news related to various political developments all round the world. Comments on the passive resistance in the Ruhr; Offer of Berlin government to British government regarding annual payments; Proposal regarding the seizure of Rhineland railways and Ruhr mines; Claims that the anthracite strike continues to be the centre of interest in the U.S.; Criticism of a foreign policy of the U.S.; Outlines of the Coolidge policy; Opinion of American public regarding the war against Germany; Information about the U.S. Senator George Wharton Pepper as a courageous defender of civil liberties; Ratification of the Four and Five-Power Treaties in the U.S. Information about Secretary Work; Chances of the U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson for the Presidency in 1924; Defense of imperialism at the Williamstown Institute of Politics; Mistake done by the Shipping Board of the U.S.; Information about a program for the practical application of eugenic principles to the American public; Comments on mail service from New York to California; Claims that Harry Barnhart, conductor of New York's Community Chorus, seems in a fair way to get himself made No. 1,500,001 on the American Bar Association's list of dangerous radicals.

Focuses on the social and economic development of colonies. Reason behind the establishment of colonies in the modern world; Role of the international cooperation in the economic and social development of the colonies; Explanation of the British colonial policy; Appointment of two strong commissions by the British government; Initiation of a new phase in British colonial policy by the British Parliament; Role of private capital in the development of colonies.

This article focuses on freedom movement in Morocco. The French occupation of Morocco goes back to 1912, when the powerful Bank of Paris, alleging high moral motives, induced French diplomacy with the help of military power to force the Sultan of Morocco to sign a treaty depriving him of practically all the rights of a sovereign ruler. In 1930, a group of French-educated intellectuals organized the Istiqlal (Independence) Party. The fight against French rule was held by the Istiqlal alone until 1950, when the Sultan Sidi Mohammed realized that the movement had enough popular support to make an alliance with it worth while.

The single feature of the Malaysian federation demonstrates the complete folly, and danger, of the plan. Although Ely Culbertson, bridge expert, thinks his scheme "offers an adequate substitute for power politics," what would Americas domination of Malaysia represent but the worst kind of power politics plus a new, far-flung American imperialism? Culbertson convicts himself. "In the Netherlands East Indies," he writes, "the Netherlands shall retain her essential sovereign rights, except the right to maintain military or air-naval bases."

This article focuses on various events going all round the world. When Joachim Von Ribbentrop was in Moscow he seems to have won Joseph Stalin over to the tactics of the anti-Comintern. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's conduct in Spain is not the most admirable of precedents for a government that purports to be anti-imperialist and a union of socialist republics. On the other hand, in Asia there have been few changes of a tangible nature since the signing of the Soviet-German pact. Japan is still bogged down in the vastness of China, and its recent minor victory at Nanning has not offset its defeat at Changsha.

Presents several letters to the editor on articles previously published in this journal. Information on the imperialism in Rome; Response to the article on Democrat William Bryan's nomination; Comments on the immigration policies of the U.S. government.

This article presents information on various political developments in the world. The idea is quite generally entertained, that the acquisition of the Philippine Islands is not a manifestation of "imperialism." According to this view, the U.S. shall hold these islands because it do not know what else to do. The U.S. has not been moved by greed or by the desire for military glory. In the concussion of war the Philippine Islands were knocked out of Spain's pocket. It is not the Philippine Islands in themselves that arouse commercial greed, but what the possession of the Philippine Islands will lead to. Beyond them there is the vast continent of Asia, and the visions of empire there which float before the eyes of some of U.S. statesmen are simply gorgeous. If there is any one generally recognized test of advancement in civilization, it is the treatment of prisoners of war. Among all the curiosities which the war with Spain has produced, nothing would have seemed antecedently more unlikely than that it should have ended in a testimonial, from the Spanish soldiers, to the humanity and consideration with which they, as prisoners of war, had been treated.

This article presents the author's experience of his visit to Soviet Union in the year 1946. Critics on the left are apt to resent this exaltation of national sentiment and conclude that Soviet imperialism has replaced the old internationalism. That is too simple an interpretation. A good part of Russian pride is rooted in the knowledge that the country, which gave the world this extraordinary example of resistance and heroism, is the country of socialism. One cannot make a clear distinction between ideology and the big-power concept. To interpret Russian policy exclusively in terms of power politics is sure to lead to false conclusions; to interpret it exclusively from the point of view of revolutionary ideology would be equally misleading.

Focuses on a British document known as the Balfour Declaration. Endeavors to facilitate the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people; Information that community life in the cities and colonies has acquired all the intensity associated with the Jewish temperament; Dependence of the larger part of the Jewish population on the financial support of the Diaspora; Information that Palestine not only carries a share of the Ottoman Empire's War indemnity, but helps support a frontier military force stationed in Trans-Jordan; View that the Zionists cannot resist attempting to better the condition of Arab labor.

Focuses on the interest of the author on the imperialists Alfred Mond, known as Lord Melchett and William Maxwell Aitken as Lord Beaverbrook in Great Britain. Political activities of Lord Melchett; Creation of the "Daily Express" and "The Evening Standard" by Lord Beaverbrook; Political method of the British government; Diagnosis of the author about the mankind in the present time.