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Focuses on political conditions in Great Britain, while discussing its foreign policy. Reason behind Britain's support of the Covenant; Comments on British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's election campaign pledges; Compromise expected from the British government in the Italian-Ethiopian war; Discussion of the British policy in Europe; Anxiety of the German government regarding British friendship.

Reports on several socio-political developments from the world. View that the primary purpose of France is not to secure reparations but to dismember Germany. Information on the acceptance by the French Chamber of the Washington Naval Treaty, success of the Lausanne Conference and the action of the League of Nations in regard to the Saar River Valley, Germany and France; Issues related to socio-politics and economics in the Soviet Union; Report that the U.S. Coal Commission recognizes the importance of the public interest and authorizes government interference in case of emergency; Socio-political news from different states of the U.S.; Information on the adoption of a definite policy on the Ruhr crisis by the British government; View that every act of sabotage and violence in the Ruhr works to the injury of Germany and the political benefit of France; View that an excellent thumbnail likeness of American journalism may be found by observing two news events reported by the newspaper "The New York Times"; Report that of the twenty-six political prisoners whose terms of imprisonment were commuted by U.S. President Warren Harding only eight have been released; View that the Coal Commission's report marks the beginning of a new epoch in American conservative thinking; Report that the liberals are heading for a third party and the most popular candidate to head the new ticket is Senator Robert Marion La Follette; View that the sentiment in favor of the United States entering the League seems to be increasing.

Discusses advocacy of democracy and socialism in Great Britain. Information on a manifesto of British Labor Party, which called on the workers to rally to its defense and denounce the Communists and the Nazi-Fascists; Implication of collapse of socialism in Germany and the destruction of its elaborate political and industrial organizations; Brief overview of the British Labor Party, Independent Labor Party and the Communist Party; Need to present a united parliamentary stand to combat fascism; Problems of mobilizing trained intelligence in Great Britain for an effort of fundamental change; Lack of long-term consideration to promote socialism.

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.

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.