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The article focuses on the sociopolitical issues. Memorial services for Senator Robert La Follette was performed in the Capitol in the Washington on June 20. The tribute to La Follette's memory in the U.S. Senate on Sunday called forth a demonstration of esteem and admiration which would have been impossible just after his death a year ago. The Reed-King-La Follette committee has discovered that politicians Carnegie Mellon and Claude Pepper crew spent nearer two million dollars in Pennsylvania. Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, instructed city officials to vote for Pepper if they valued their bread and butter.

Afro-Americans, principally in the South, risks economic retaliation when they lend themselves to the work of protest organizations. As a result, the overwhelming majority of protest leaders in the South are persons whose incomes are independent of white control. Ethnic group leadership by definition, must concern itself with promoting the interests of the ethnic group. It exists because the ethnic group is conscious of itself in competition for certain scarce values with other ethnic groups.

Memphis, which was once the power center in Tennessee politics may become a new power center but this time it will be of Republican politics. Republican votes have been largely concentrated in east Tennessee and, as far as state-wide influence was concerned, they were negligible. Now, with the development of the Republican Party in urban centers in the South, an examination of the rejuvenation, as some might call it, or at least the new management of Memphis Republican politics, should be rewarding.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including the story of Charles Revson in the November 16, 1959 issue, highlights of the Baptist convention in the November 16, 1959 issue, and the boycott of Israel by Arab nations in the November 2, 1959 issue.

The article presents information on the new trade policy developed by the U.S. Administration for Latin America, that intends to promote sound economic and political cooperation with southern neighbors. Under the policy, a new trade agreement is being negotiated between Argentina and Latin America. Also, the new policy allows Brazil to accumulate gold reserve by acquiring gold in New York.

The article presents information on the foreign policy of the Soviet Union, that states that the aims of the nation are imperialistic, and is working on the principle that friendship must be supported by trade between nations during the world crisis.

The article presents information on Japan's posters for "Materials Mobilization," that call on Japanese businessmen to report stocks of specified materials, in the government's drive to take over old warehouse stocks.

The article reports that business has improved in Canada after the success of the Quebec provincial elections, and the lifting of the arms embargo in the U.S.

The article presents a speech delivered to the alumni of Harvard University during their triennial festival dated July 19, 1866, in which the author discussed issues and challenges facing the university, highlighting the continuing civil war in the country, the surrender of Vicksburg which reopened the trade in Mississippi, and the capture of Port Hudson.