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The article presents some socio-political updates. It asserts that temperature of cold war has again risen in Berlin. Once again the four-power negotiations for an Austrian treaty are at a standstill and an appeal to the Russian government by the American, British, and French Ambassadors to end the deadlock appears to have been fruitless. Another cause of heightened tension between the U.S. and the Soviet bloc is the Bulgarian demand for recall of the American Minister in Sofia on the ground that he procured information from the executed traitor and former Deputy Premier of Bulgaria. The article also highlights the political dilemma faced by Great Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill as his British Labor Party faces voters in February 1950 elections in Great Britain.

Assesses the role of the United Nations in ironing out the international tension. Argument against the international status of the United Nations; Composition and function of the United Nations; International threat of dissolving the United Nations; Role of the United Nations in ironing out the antagonism between the Russian empire and the free world; Political significance of the United Nations.

Opposes a foreign policy analysis prescribed by U.S. Department of State Secretary John Foster Dulles that there is a single communist movement that embraced countries collectively under the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union in 1961. Claim that the Soviet Union is an expanding autocratic empire rather than a Marxist state; Suggestion that the international communist movement was breaking up into national communism; Balance of power between the Russian and Chinese communist camps.

This article highlights the success of Finland President Urho Kekkonen to keep a good relations with its neighbor the Soviet Union while maintaining a pro-Western stand. Kekkonen is friends with both the Communist bloc and the Western allies. It notes Kekkonen's success in persuading Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev to rent Soviet territory for a Finish canal project, block demands for Soviet military talks withe Finland and convincing Western leaders to continue to accept Finland's neutrality in the Cold War.

Focuses on the required changes in the U.S. policy after the Soviet Union has developed the atom bomb. Discussion on whether the Atlantic Pact would be able to deter the Soviet Union from waging a war against the European countries; Assumption on the response of the U.S. to these developments; Deliberation on developing an effective method of international control of atomic energy; Discussion on the U.S. refusal of a reduction in its armaments; View that the U.S. should be prepared to neutralize Western Europe in the cold war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Deliberation on the type of atomic-energy control that may be acceptable to the Soviet Union.

Focuses on the possibility of the end of cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union after the lift of the Berlin blockade and approval of West Germany's constitution. Criticism of the belief of U.S. General Lucius Clay that the opposition of the West to the East was a crusade of good against evil, and dedicated to the mission of preparing for an in evitable war; Progress toward the development of a policy of political appeasement in Germany after the election of Harry S. Truman as President; Information on the early stages of the bilateral Soviet American talks; Expectations from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in solving the German problem; Apprehension of the British and French people that the much desired end of American isolation may lead to the beginning of a Soviet-American condominium over Europe.

Discusses the foreign policy of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson as of 1966. Relations of the U.S. with Egypt; Policy of the administration of Johnson toward granting foreign aids during the Cold War.

Knowing each person's deep concern for peace, the author of this article attempts to strike a current balance sheet in the cold war. He also stresses our need for a new declaration of moral purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the new Soviet policy of direct intervention in Germany and in Western Europe. Consolidation of the situation in favor the Soviet Union both in China and East European countries; Discussion on the reasons behind the new Soviet policy; Importance of West European countries in the cold war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; View that the close relationship between Great Britain and the U.S. has raised a sense of threat in other European countries; U.S. policy of considering Western Europe as a factor in its policy of containment of the Soviet Union; Assumption on the response of Great Britain and the U.S. to the new Soviet policy.

Encourages U.S. President John F. Kennedy to confine the summit meeting with Soviet Union Premier Nikita Krushchev to collateral issues that can be settled or adjusted without touching the basic question on aggression against any peaceably-disposed nation. Importance of setting purpose in any talks; Views that Kennedy can bind his successor to any pledge of non-aggression.

Argues against a U.S. foreign policy that would compete with the Soviet Union in the area of military and intellectual superiority. Approach used by the Soviet Union to the development of engineers for its military ambition; Plan that would encourage the youth to provide national service in exchange for their college education; Response of conservatives to the plan.

Presents comments of the author on the cold war. Philosophical implications of the war; Comparison of the war with bad weather; Description of the nature of the war.

Examines the efforts of Russia to wage a cold war with the Western world. Commitment of communist parties in Burma, Philippines and Indonesia to wage civil war against their free government; Strategy of Russia to create a conflict between Europe and U.S.; Motive of the shift of the Soviet government from cold war to cold peace.

Deals with the application of the so-called Rapacki Plan in addressing the Cold War problem during the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation conference in 1957. Reference to a speech given by "New York Times" chief foreign correspondent C. L. Sulzberger during the conference; Proposals of the Rapacki Plan; Criticism on the intentions of Soviet Defense Minister Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin to postpone discussing military problems during the conference.

Examines the way that the decision of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower to liquidate the Cold War at Geneva has impacted the hope for German reunification. Commitment of the U.S. to peaceful coexistence with Soviet Communism; Main strategic interest of the Bolsheviks; Situation that would make the World Communism irresistible.