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This article focuses on the book "The Making of British India," by Ramsay Muir. When people consider the mass of original documents available for historians and students of the British period in India, the need of a volume of this convenient compass becomes apparent. While catalogues of official documents are more or less accessible, or are rapidly becoming so, together with the results of the valuable researches of enthusiasts like George Forrest and S.C. Hill, yet a small, synthetic collection of this material has always been desired. In this volume Muir has included the most important dispatches, treaties, statutes, and other documents from 1756 to 1858.

Presents information on political and economic events of several countries. Information about the political situation of Europe; Description of the Dawes plan for economic development in Europe; Information on payments made by Germany for the loss of all her colonies and the abolition of her armies; Comment on the policy of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge about the Ku Klux Klan issue; Information on the arrival of the Prince of Wales in the U.S.; Information about the Cabot Fund report regarding working hours of industrial workers in the U.S.; Reasons which has prevented the League of Nations from adopting the American plan for suppressing the opium traffic through India; Description of the trial and sentence of Bolshevists leader Boris Savinkov by the Soviet Union's Supreme Military Tribunal; Views of U.S. Senator Simeon Fess on forthcoming elections in the U.S.

Focuses on the Imperial Conference in London, England, that discussed the development of the self-governing part of the British Empire. Proclamation made by statesmen of some dominions regarding their political rights during wars; Discussion of the control which the British home government still in theory possesses over the legislation of the dominions; Possible consequences of the clear mandate won by the Labor Party for the general lines of its foreign policy at the last British general election; Agenda of the Imperial Conference; Attitude of the British government towards granting dominion status to India.

This article presents information on socio-political conditions of several nations. Imperialism of the Anglo-American brand always requires a protective moralization of its position at no matter what cost to reason or to truth. Hence one can find the British Government in India solemnly declaring that Gandhi has at last forced it to put into effect a policy of repression which in fact was one of the causes of Gandhi's protest. U.S. Senator Herbert Hoover and the periodical "New York Times," have opened fire on the more radical Russian relief organizations in this country. They do not openly charge them with corruption, or inefficiency, or diversion of funds. They protest because some of these organizations, instead of sending their money and supplies through Hoover, send them to the Russian Red Cross or through the Russian Government.

This article focuses on the debts which were after the end of World War I. In August, 1914, the British deadweight debt was about £650,000,000. Bonar Law, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, estimated last summer that if the war continued, the national debt in March, 1919, would be £8,000,000,000. He calculated that on March 31, 1919, Russia, France, Italy, and the other Allies might owe Great Britain £1,632,000,000, of which he proposed for the time being to reckon only one-half as immediately recoverable. Adding to this the sums lent to the colonies and India's war contributions, he estimated that there would be £1,124,000,000 to be deducted from the gross debt.

Focuses on the final address by colonial historian Lionel Curtis at the Williams College Institute, of Politics, an apology for imperialism, and specifically for the British Empire as a practical contribution to that ultimate political ideal, a supernational state. Admittance by Curtis that unless the principle of the commonwealth replaces that of empire the whole structure will fall; Observation of the dependence of extension of the principle of commonwealth on self-government; Opinion of Curtis that the presence of India within the Empire was essential to the development of a world state animated by Anglo-Saxon ideals of freedom.

The article focuses on British imperialism in India. To be able to obtain paper freedom from British rule, Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi and Congress leaders are willing to risk permanent slavery under Japanese rule. Gandhi views British sovereignty in India as a sin. It comments on Gandhi's failure to explain to his people that freedom depends on the success of the United Nations.

Reports on issues related to the United States' action in matters related to British imperialism in India. Report that in the proposed settlement between Great Britain and India, one of the departments which the former most earnestly seeks to reserve to itself is that of foreign affairs; Information on several reports in newspapers related to British imperialism in India; Report that most of the revolutionary leaders of Indian origin, who were interested in the revolutionary movement in India were arrested, immediately after the United States entered the First World War; Information on the trial of fifty-six Indians among others related to an attempt to ship arms to a German vessel; Report that the British Consul in San Francisco, California offered to furnish the United States authorities with additional information to deport Indians; Report that a terrible, and certainly in part verifiable, account of the treatment of Indians and their American sympathizers by the American police and military authorities under British instigation is given in Agnes Smedley's novel "Daughter of Earth"; View that Great Britain is not fit to govern India, and that her attempt to do so is a source of danger and corruption to herself and other peoples.

This article focuses on the conflict in the Indo-China region. For nearly eight years the French have fought a colonial war in Indo-China, refusing to internationalize that war or make any of the radical and self-denying concessions necessary to transforming that conflict into a clear-cut case of resistance to Communist aggression. Great Britain insisted that the continuation of a white man's war to hold Indo-China would imperil the West's position in all that is left of Asia, seeming to confirm, in the minds of neutral Asians, Communist charges of Western imperialism. In the meantime Premier Chou En-lai of China has been very busy mending fences.

Presents several letters to the editor related to social and political issues of the world. British rule making India unfit for self-rule; Laws related to Japanese immigrants in the U.S.; Establishment of an educational fund to assist Philippine students in the U.S.

Presents several letters to the editor that focus on various political issues. Information about the oppression of the Indian Press; Insight into the enforcement of British authority in India; Discussion of the universal dread of "socialism" and "universalism."

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Discussion of labor strikes in reply to a letter published in October 25, 1922 issue; Comment on a photograph related to the Soviet Union published in journal "New York World"; Comments on the Supreme Court's adoption of the rule allowing a fair return on the fair value of railroads in the U.S.; Discussion of British imperialism in an article published in August 23, 1922 issue; Comments on advertisements requiring hikers.

Efforts to apply the French colonial policy of "assimilation" have resulted in effectively producing an economic "closed door" in that part of the East. Development has been typically reserved to the French, although the large scale development of Indo-China's resources has resulted in widening the opportunity for other foreign enterprise to participate in the benefits of France's control. The population of French Indo-China is fairly heavy, 55 to the square mile, with a per capita trade of 2.67 of imports and 3.24 of exports. The railway mileage of 1,282 miles gives about 4 to each 1,000 square miles of territory. The economic importance of these French holdings rests upon several factors like French Indo-China being one of the granaries of the East; approximately 70 percent of the exports consists of rice, with coal, cotton, rubber, sugar, hides, and various foodstuffs making up the balance.

Presents information on political and economic conditions of various nations. Expectation that twelve former French colonies in Africa will vote against admission of Red China to the United Nations; List of presidential candidates chosen by various Republican delegates to Texas State Convention; Information on political candidate Teddy Kennedy's candidacy in Massachusetts; Decision of Australia to purchase new Soviet MIG fighter aircrafts to fight against Indonesian army; Information on debate in India, to get private-owned gold in the form of heavy gold jewelry.