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Focuses on the willingness of Germany to consider participation in a league to enforce peace, with reference to the speech of Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. Organization of league of peace subordinate questions concerning territorial readjustments to the overwhelming need of organizing international security; Proposal of the French, English and Russian statesmen to alter the balance of power in Europe by taking away the Slavic subjects of the Central Empires and so deprive Germany of any sufficient means of future aggression.

Surveys on the political attitude and expectations of Europeans on the status of the balance of power and peace in European politics and diplomacy. Pessimistic point of view on the situation suggests of a general European war to develop out of the actions of Benito Mussolini; Attempts of the League of Nations for economic sanctions is uncertain to contain war because of the reluctance and half-heartedness of the member nations; Political plans of Greece and Turkey against Italy; Political situation of Central and Eastern Europe; Contention of the orthodox opinion of professional diplomatists and military experts that an impending conflict will be localized for the simple reason that Germany is not ready to strike; Territorial acquisitions will be gain by Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Japan in the event conflict escalates; Assertion of optimists that Fascists dictatorships will not last that long and the reorientation of Europe toward peaceful cooperation without either war or proletarian revolution; Assumption of the optimists of an overthrow of Mussolini and Adolf Hitler from power by their own party; Probable setup of the political reorganization of Germany after a successful expulsion of Hitler from power; Point of view in a middle ground perspective suggests that the League will take only sufficient action to preserve a badly damage prestige and that Italy will partition Ethiopia which France and England agrees; Change of government in England and France where the French Fascists and the Labor Party gain power; Possibilities of war with Germany on Central Europe.

Presents information on the impact of the formation of alliances on the outcome of war. Importance of accurate calculations of war potentials and adroit combinations among Great Powers; Devising of strategies for overpowering Adolf Hitler, Nazi dictator of Germany; Formation of alliances between France, Great Britain, the U.S. or Soviet Union and its probable impact on the alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan; Information on British proposal of Soviet Union to defend Great Britain and France from Germany; Probability of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Foreign Minister of Soviet Union, adopting a policy of isolationist neutrality.

The article presents information about the book "Mit Emin Pascha ins Herz von Afrika," by Franz Stuhlmann. It is the painstaking and picturesque collection of ethnographic facts about a race that is fast disappearing or transforming before the inrush of a new civilization, which gives the work its value. The connection of Emin Pasha with the expedition, which, a thousand strong, left Bagamoyo, opposite Zanzibar, on April 26, 1890, was in general terms to strengthen and extend the power of Germany within its sphere of influence.

Focuses on the foreign policy of Great Britain. Statement of Great Britain's ex Prime Minister David Lloyd George that Great Britain has not carried her point about the League of Nations but has managed to add the bitter enmity of Italy to that of France and intensify British isolation; Report that it can hardly be denied that today France exercises a military hegemony much more complete than that which in the past provoked British resistance in the shape of wars lasting generations; Report that while most of the politically conscious press of all parties has supported the government in its fight with Italy for vindication of the League, the popular and less political press of the Rothermere, Hulton and Beaverbrook trusts is all violently anti-League and the first is maliciously critical of the government's entire policy; View that a policy of complete isolation and intensive imperial development must include one of thorough going imperial defense based on the maintenance of naval preponderance with coal stations, open lines of sea communications, etc.; Alternative to the government's present foreign policy to share the French hegemony and cooperate in the more or less permanent subjugation of Germany; Information on the two possible courses for Great Britain--return to the ancient balance of power or the transformation of Europe into a community of power; Report that the thing which made the realist policy impossible was those who boast of their realism, the anti-League Die-hards supported by the anti-League and anti-Hun popular press; View that only under internationalist or League policy can the inevitable drawing nearer to Germany be made the means of French or Italian security.

Presents various letters to the editor. Reference to the question posed on citizens of the U.S. regarding Russia's political domination; Critique on the current outbreak of anti-English feeling in Germany.