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Discusses the international relief work of the Commission for Relief in Belgium in the midst of World War I. Biggest commissary undertaking; Saving seven million people from famine and destruction; Five governments are concerned; Nearly every country is making a contribution; Commission should remain neutral in word as well as in deed; Difficulties of transport through Belgium; Greatest problem the Commission has had to meet is the matter of currency; Bread line and soup kitchen; Revival of the lacemaking industry.

Focuses on the American relief to the Soviet Union in the Soviet famine. Information on the work of the American Relief Administration (ARA); Report that although a person couldn't live on the pay given by the ARA, the best people were anxious to work for the organization; Report that the American workers were given support in every possible way by the Soviets; Report that though the Soviet government needs the food, the work was carried on nevertheless in a persistent atmosphere of suspicion; View that the Soviet government, secure now within its own borders, is faced with the task of governing and satisfying its citizens; Criticism of the Soviet government for its foreign trade monopoly policies; Reply of the Soviet Union on the proposal to send a commission to the Soviet Union; View that many of the Bolshevists are afflicted with an inferiority complex, the result of years of under-dog existence and dealings with the Soviet Union will be correspondingly difficult as long as they remain on the scene.

This article analyzes the book "Men Against the Jungle," by Ritchie Calder. The book will silence some of the bitter critics of "give-away programs," as well as bolster faith in the doctrine of helping people to help themselves. As charted on the map that forms the end-papers of "Men Against the Jungle" Calder's trek began in Borneo, looped southward to Java, then curved northwestward through the Malay Peninsula, Thailand, Burma, East Pakistan, India and West Pakistan, into Afghanistan. Sharing the heat, the dust, the exhaustion and the hilarious moments of his mission were Eric Schwab, photographer and Herbert Steinhouse, sound recorder.

This article reports on key developments affecting the U.S. All those people who were caught in the stock market crash in the U.S. are busily and anxiously trying to look ahead and to discern what is likely to happen next. A good many people, including, of course, a certain number of members of the U.S. Congress, have promptly insisted that Wall Street is the leader of the calamitous procession. Herbert Hoover, the U.S. President, in his Armistice Day address, advanced the proposal that neutral food ships in time of war be exempt from capture. There can be nothing but praise for the humanitarian impulse that unquestionably animates Mr. Hoover's proposal. The starvation on non-combatants in the First World War was one of the most dreadful features of that ghastly struggle.

This article presents information on several recent socio-political developments of the world. It is informed that the U.S. government is providing aid to Soviet Union to cope with the famine that has swept across Soviet Union. Herbert Hoover, President of the U.S. announced that in addition to food, he has shipped in forty carloads of medical and hospital supplies-including 80,000 sheets, 60,000 blankets, 15 tons of castor oil, and 25 tons of cod liver oil. The response to the Quaker appeal is growing. U.S. doctors and pharmacists are also heartily assisting in the task of raising $100,000 in cash and supplies.

Discusses various issues relating to politics in the United States. Focus on the debates over the emergency-aid bill in the United States; Opposition of Republican leaders on the emergency-aid bill; Arguments on whether the emergency-aid bill has a humanitarian purpose; William Howard Taft-Oliver Wolcott Grand Old Party group's formulation of an alternative against totalitarian proposals; Discussion of Taft's proposal to cut interim aid to Europe.

This article focuses on the Indo-China war. Not only has the war cost France more than twice the total amount of U.S. aid for all purposes, civilian and military — as the President of the French Republic stressed in a famous speech last year — but the loss of life has been appalling. It is generally admitted that at least as many officers as are graduated yearly from Saint-Cyr, the French West Point, have been killed or disabled every year. If France cannot produce an army worth speaking about in Europe, it is because of the war in Indo-China.

Presents letters to the editor about the political issues related to the U.S. Suggestions on the humanitarian action taken for the people of Vietnam; Discussion on the revelation of the Soviet plot by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency; Development of laws to bolster separation of the races and the subjugation of the non white races by the South African government.

Presents letters to the editor. Significance of mobilization day; Resolution adopted at the last meeting of the Business and Professional Men's Association of Minneapolis; Protest against use of force and to urge organizations that profess humanitarian aims, to prevent such a threat.

The article focuses on U.S. humanitarian aid supplied to foreign countries as of October 15, 1949. Details related to financial aid and food provisions are provided as well. U.S. organizations engaged in sending humanitarian aid, including nonprofit organizations and religious communities, are reviewed as well.