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This article focuses on an event that took place where Germany touches Switzerland in 1945. A local Swiss paper called it "a sensational illegal crossing of the frontier." A border station near the small Swiss town of Bargen was aroused at four in the morning by the approach of nine persons who explained that they had fled from Germany and hoped to find asylum in Switzerland. The reason for their flight-and also the basis for their claim to the right of asylum in Switzerland, was a future danger to their lives. They admitted that up to the moment of their flight they had been in perfectly good standing with the German authorities and had had nothing to fear.

The article focuses on Joseph Pulitzer, a philanthropist. Pulitzer was not like three others who left their mark upon American journalism--Carl Schurz, Oswald Ottendorfer and Henry Villard, a product of the Revolution of 1848. He belonged to a later generation of immigrants and did not cross the ocean as a result of that idealistic uprising which would have liberalized Germany and spared the world its greatest agony had it succeeded. But the fact is nevertheless that New York owes what is today perhaps its most liberal English-language daily to a simple Jewish-Hungarian immigrant of humblest origin.

The woman who delivered newspaper to the author was a refugee from the North, out towards Laon, France where the German army has begun retreating of late. She was inside the German lines until a very short time ago. It was not easy to ask her of her people, but they must have had a little competence and her language showed education. They lived in their own house, until it was destroyed, and then they crept back and lived in what had been the cellar all last winter. It was not a healthy habitation, without heat, without light, and mostly without air, for air coming down from, above would have been cold with winter.

Presents information on various political developments in several countries. Favor done by the U.S. Congress to the demands of the California propagandists for inclusion of the anti-Japanese provision in the immigration bill; Law passed by California to forbid land ownership or lease to immigrants from Japan; Role of the U.S. in modifying the Japanese policy of exploitation and domination in China; Failure of the U.S. immigration bill to place any restriction upon the Mexican influx; Obligation of Germany to pay fifty-two percent of the war reparations payment to France; Suggestion that even if the railway, industrial profits and revenues yield the sum for the reparation payment a situation will be created which is favorable to the intrusion of foreign interests into German industry.

Presents information on several social and political developments around the world. Discussion on the settlement of reparation question between France and Germany; Fear that France may take oppressive action against Germany; Suggestion that the U.S. and Great Britain should show their disapproval if France takes this step of terror; Discussion on the disadvantages of following a policy of aggression against Germany; Discussion on reasons behind opposition to proposed registration of aliens in the U.S.; Suggestion to increase wage in order to facilitate Americanization of aliens; View that U.S. government was grossly plundered by numerous contractors during the World War I; Discussion on the industrial conference plan launched under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Labor, which is intended as a platform to discuss matters of common interest to employers and employees; Account of inhuman tax collecting strategies being employed by the British in Iraq.

Focuses on the recruitment of foreign workers in Germany. Statement that foreign workers who are not full substitute of skilled German workers must remain to make it possible to use the foreigners sufficiently; Introduction of a campaign in Berlin to induce office and civil service employees to serve as conductors on trolley cars in their spare time; Description of instructions given to German workers, as the guide to their relationships with foreign workers.