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The article presents a comparison of the post-World War II industrial positions of Germany, as planned by the Allied Control Council which includes Great Britain and the U.S., and that of the U.S.S.R. as outlined in the fourth Russian five-year plan. Germany's production in heavy industry will be only one-fifth of that of the production of U.S.S.R. in 1950. Electric power production will be the only gage of what is planned to happen industrially in the two countries.

Propaganda in Germany appears to be a thing of the past. It no longer has any effect. This is amply shown by the total failure of the attempt to use Royal Air Force bombings to stir up a fury of hate against the English. In recent months thousands of letters from Germany have fallen into the hands of the Allies with the capture of the prisoners to whom they were written. Many were from the bombed regions. In most of them the bombings and their effects were described more or less fully. Not two in a thousand contained a word of hatred for the English. Obviously the Germans realize that the English are justified in making these attacks, that their course of action is perfectly normal.

Presents news briefs, related to political developments of several nations. Steps which must be taken by the U.S. President Calvin Coolidge in connection with the oil scandal; Disclosure of the interests of Democrats in having been in close alliance with oil interests; Recognition of the Soviet Russia by the British government, without any conditions; Efforts of both the countries to maintain peace; Appointment of Alexis Ivanovitch Rykoff, as president of the Council of Commissars in the Soviet Union; Plans of the British government to secure agreements for the limitation of land and aerial armament by other European nations; Features of an advertisement published by Frank Munsey to celebrate his recent purchase of the "New York Evening Mail" and its consolidation with his "Evening Telegram"; Resolution of the Texas board of Reagents that no infidel, atheist or agnostic be employed in any capacity in the University of Texas; Failure of the Senate Committee on propaganda to investigate the Bok Peace Plan; Proposal of Secretary of Treasury Andrew W. Mellon for reduction in surtaxes; Demand of Germany to restore its African colonies in exchange of medicine for African sleeping sickness; Failure of the Fordney-McCumber law to check the flow of imports into the U.S.; Preference of the people in the Middle West to buying government savings certificates instead of depositing their money in the banks.

Criticizes the U.S. government for not supporting Great Britain in its time of crises when the Nazis threaten it. Fact that when France fell, and the beaches and fields of England were threatened, the U.S. drove a hard deal for a few aged destroyers; Discussion of the socio-economic conditions of people in Great Britain; Response of U.S. senators on American supplies being sent to Great Britain at the time of crises; Statement that some men in the U.S. still believe that there is no difference between democratic England and fascist Germany; Information on forces behind the U.S. President's foreign policy; Report that either the U.S. must end the war on whatever terms and spare the people of England from further suffering or must give her aid; Statement that if German dictator Hitler ends the war by conquering the world, it will still not be peace.

Discusses the naval strategies of Germany and Great Britain during World War II. Loss of British submarines during the war; Development of submarine and the technological innovation further improvement; View that there is an enormous percentage of error in submarine work against merchant craft; Fact that during the war, mine-laying submarines were most effective against merchant shipping, and something like a third of the U-boats were mine-layers; Argument that German naval strategy is, in fact, intertwined with Nazi economic strategy in the design of imposing upon the British Empire the form of one of the later herbivorous dinosaurs--say tricertops or stegosaur-- so loaded with protective mechanisms as to be unable to live; Discussion about the North Sea action in which the Germans destroyed the British ship Ark Royal, and the dismal failure of the British bombing attacks on Wilhemshaven.

The article focuses on international diplomacy, related to Germany, England and the U.S. Within the last few days a notable change has taken place in the attitude of Germany against the civilized world. The object of her bitterest enmity, her most venomous threats, has been England. It is pleasant to turn for a moment from the cruel war devastating wide tracts of the continent to contemplate about of mimic warfare taking place at home. The speeches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Admiralty, delivered on Monday in an exceptionally crowded British House of Commons, were notable among other things for the quiet assurance of the ultimate success of the Allied arms that ran through them, an unbroken chord.

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.

This article discusses the air raid between Germans and Englishmen. Up there in the sky young Englishmen and young German men are fighting each other. The defenders are men, the attackers are men. Arms are not given to the English woman either to fight the enemy or to defend herself. She must lie weaponless tonight. Yet if she believes that the fight going on up in the sky is a fight by the English to protect freedom, by the Germans to destroy freedom, she must fight, so far as she can, on the side of the English.

Comments on the agreement made between Great Britain and Germany over tonnage of battleships to be used in the next world war. Decision of the British government to assign a percentage of naval strength to the Germans; Expression of anger by the French government over the seeming disregard from the British government; Exploration on the reaction of the British governing class to the alliance; Citation of changes in British national perception toward the Germans.