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The article focuses on nation's capacity to prepare for any sort of war against any sort of enemy. Today, the cost and destructiveness of the new weapons compel even the most powerful nations to choose between types of defense. The White Paper admits that what keeps Soviet Union military ambitions in check is mainly the American Strategic Air Command, and that Great Britain could not hope to defend herself if that deterrent failed. Unless Great Britain has an independent element of thermonuclear strength, she will lose whatever independence of action she still has.

The article offers information on Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has been constantly observed by the communist government of Soviet Union. In a major policy pronouncement, the Communist Party newspaper "Pravda" revealed that vigilance would henceforth be exercised to sweep away Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other wretched renegades. The paper equated Solzhenitsyn with dissidents, like Andrei Amalric, who are now serving sentences in concentration camps. The paper also said that Solzhenitsyn's arrest would be the cruel but logical culmination of a three-year effort by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, to make a case against him based on Article 70 of the Russian criminal code.

The Korean war is in its third month and although one has been hearing all this time that "Russia is behind it" and that it is all too likely to lead to a Third World War, not a single paper in the West has, to the author's knowledge, taken the trouble to find out what the Russians really think about it or what they intend to do. One looks in vain for a critical analysis of Russian aims or even of the Russian point of view. A classical objection to any attempt to assess the Soviet standpoint is, of course: "How can one possibly tell what's going on at the Kremlin or in the back of Soviet premier Joseph Stalin's mind?"

The article reports on the cold war between Russia and China. It mentions that the nature and size of the break up can shape the course of the cold war and the strategists from the West have studied the evidence to help function its dimensions. It notes that despite the deepness and reality of the split, both countries are Communist and are dedicated to the same determined end winning of the world to Marxism.

One cannot say by what initiative, or through whom the negotiations for the German-Soviet pact of August, 1939, were started. One regarded the Soviet-French-English conversations as definitely ended and believed that the Soviet Union would now orient itself solely according to its own advantage and security. Knowing itself unprepared, it would seek to postpone war as long as possible and meanwhile prepare feverishly for war. At the same time one was sure that Soviet Union would not lose sight of its eventual revolutionary goal, even though it might be forced into apparently or really illogical action.

Presents information on handling of the queries of religious liberty in the Soviet Union to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Information on option whether U.S. would help the Soviet Union in the war or not; Report on priests and peasants in the Soviet Churches who are superstitious and illiterate; Focus on bitterness of the Soviet officials against the Church is due to the fact that it participated in many counter-revolutionary efforts; Inclusion of right of free worship in the Soviet Union; Information on the rising generation of the Soviet Union being largely communist and anti-religious; Focus on loss of several men in war.

The article focuses on the atom-bomb shelter program of the U.S. It states that the Soviet Union has been at work on a shelter program of its own since 1951and has spent an estimated 500 million dollars a year on civil defense training courses. It mentions the views of Leon Gouré, an analyst at Rand Corp., on the Soviet Union's civil defense planning and how the country expects a forewarning to eliminate the need for shelters until a threatening situation calls for it.

The article reports on the abandonment of jamming Western programs as an indication of the Union Soviet Socialist Republics' (USSR) interest in a rapprochement with the Western world. It mentions that Western broadcaster get their programs through taking advantage of Soviet technical lapses or by employing classified tricks of their own. Moreover, it also notes the two major jamming techniques utilized by the USSR such as the ground-wave jamming and the sky-wave jamming.

The article discusses the negotiation between the U.S. and Soviet Union during their summit meeting in Moscow. It reveals that U.S. President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were on their way for the summit with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, talking about one major issue affecting security between Americans and Russians. It also notes that the third Nixon-Brezhnev summit is likely to be the most difficult.

The article focuses on the deportation of writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn for systematically performing actions that are incompatible with his citizenship of the Soviet Union in light of the publication of his book "The Gulag Archipelago, which depicts Kremlin's long record of inhumanity. Frustration of Soviet was mixed with anger when Solzhenitsyn declared his plan to order the publication of his banned work abroad if he was arrested answering criticism in the Soviet press with pointed rebuttals. The exile of Solzhenitsyn, who had been deported to Germany, showed the admission of the Soviet that it holds no answer in law or fact to meet the writer's challenge demonstrating its fear to imprison him and incapability to tolerate his opinions according to journalist John Shaw.

The article focuses on the discussion of political scientists Hans J. Morgenthau and Zbigniew Brzezinski on the impact of the bombing of North Vietnam on the Soviet Union. Morgenthau thinks that the bombing has thrown Soviet into despair, alarm and exasperation, while Brzezinski considers the intervention of the Soviets as dubious. He also cites the significance of escalation to end the war. The article also stresses what the bombing can cause to the U.S.

The article reports on the decision of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei, who is considered an obedient servant of Soviet politician Joe Stalin, to withdraw his invitation for Protestant Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin, Germany for a visit to Moscow, Russia. In a statement of Bishop Dibelius, he stressed his intention to ask for the release of German prisoners in Moscow. A wire from Moscow's Bishop Nikolai delivered the news that the patriarch was sick and cannot meet Bishop Dibelius and five other churchmen as planned.

Presents an insight into the functioning of German press and the influence of the U.S. and the Soviet Union's occupation of Germany on it. Details of German press born after the Second World War which was governed by the four powers occupying Germany; Division of Germany and German press into two zones one the Soviet Union and the other the U.S.; View that the German press no longer expresses German thought, but the ideological battle occupying powers; Reference of tight zonal rules which prevent the free flow of newspapers from one zone to the other; Information on the propaganda war raging in the German press.

The article reports on the private talks between Great Britain's Winston Churchill and Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin about top-secret wartime in October 1944 in Moscow, Russia. Churchill is worried on the potential action of the U.S. to return Britain's colony of Hong Kong to China as a reward to Chinese's contribution to struggle against Japan. In this regard, he requires Stalin's support to continue British empire and, thus, promise Soviet's recognition as a dominant influence in his memoirs.

The article narrates how the Russians have kidnapped 800 people from Austria since 1945 for crimes of espionage and sabotage. Russia released its first official announcement on the missing Austrians during the third week of September 1951 after insistent demands from the Austrian government. Its statement concerned only two men, namely railway officer Paul Katscher whom they reported to have been accused of sabotage and died in a Soviet jail, and senior police inspector Anton Marek. The Russians did not report on the others who remain missing.

For the outside world the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution has been seriously overshadowed by the executions, political trials, and mass arrests which have occurred in recent months. It is generally believed that the Soviet Union is in the midst of the most severe political crisis of its history. Political observers have commented on the decline of Soviet prestige and suggested that Russia's failure to embark on a war with Japan is an unmistakable indication of Soviet weakness. Yet it is doubtful whether the average Soviet citizen is conscious of any grave crisis in the political life of his country.

The article features Russian foreign minister Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, who was tasked to maintain the Russian government's relation with the rest of the world while his government is negotiating peace with the West. As part of the peace gestures, Molotov sent his chief of protocol officer to meet new U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Charles "Chip" Bohlen at the airport, and personally called the British ambassador to ask the health condition of British foreign secretary Anthony Eden. The opinion of British diplomat Harold Nicolson on Molotov is cited.

The article profiles former Russian Prime Minister Joseph Stalin. He was born on December 21, 1879 in the town of Gori in Georgia. His father was a shoemaker, an alcoholic who beat Stalin unmercifully. He was expelled from the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Tiflis for reading radical literature. He established the Workers and Peasants' Inspectorate called Rabkrin at the end of the Civil War. He became the General Secretary of the Central Committee in 1922. The rise of Stalin from the 1930s to his death in 1953 is also highlighted.

Focuses on political issues related to food shortage in England. Disappearance of the Continental market with the war; Solutions proposed for the crisis; Author's proposal for solving the crisis; Observation of the author that banks are more willing to lend money during war time than peace time.

The article focuses on Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, Minister of Defense for the Soviet Union under Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev. It emphasizes the role of Malinovsky on the summit meeting in Paris, France where Khrushchev revealed the failure of the U.S. for military intelligence on the Soviet Union's airspace using the U-2 airplanes. Malinovsky's military life, the announcement of Khrushchev in Berlin, Germany, and the response of Eisenhower on Khrushchev's statements are also discussed.

The article offers an overview of the events and notable people in 1957. It states this year, the U.S. was bested in technological achievement by the Russia's launch of Sputniks. It says that the Great Britain Prime Minister Anthony Eden, spiritually drained and physically sick after the disaster at Suez, resigned from his position. It notes that Soviet Union Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev, who replaced Joseph Stalin, was the Man of the Year.

The article features Soviet Union Deputy Premier Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, an Armenian who survived Joseph Stalin's policy and the first to denounce his policies. It says that Mikoyan has served several positions in the Russian government during the leadership of Stalin such as Commissar of the Internal and External Trade and on the State Defense Committee. It adds that Mikoyan was the first to speak against the policies of Stalin and supported the de-Stalinist policy of Nikita Krushchev.

This article evaluates the war potential of Soviet Union with the prospect of opening two fronts against Germany in the impending war. In comparison with czarist Russia the Soviet Union has made a great step forward in industrial production, and that means in the development of its war potential. With the exception of the United States, Russia is the least dependent on imports of war material of all the world powers. In contrast to France it produces all the coal it needs; in contrast to Germany and England, all the necessary mineral ores, in contrast to Germany, France, and England it has its own oil.

Presents information on differences in opinion of Andrei Y. Vishinsky, deputy foreign minister of the Soviet Union and George C. Marshall's, Secretary of State on issues related to the United Nations (UN). Reference to the reorganization of the UN by the United States without the Soviet Union; Account of the Marshall's speech regarding the integrity of Greece and reorganization of the UN; Information regarding the speech given by Vishinsky; Acknowledgement that Vishinsky scorns countries which consider themselves to be democratic and at the same time allow war propaganda; Comments on the control of atomic energy; Revealment that in the UN, the Soviet Union has reduced the Security Council to paralysis by its use of the veto; Differences of opinion between Marshall and Vishinsky, regarding the issue of the Security Council.

The article presents an overview of several issues of politics and government. The question of tax reduction will be brought before the U.S. Congress at the coming session, and it is said that the U.S. President William McKinley will recommend a reduction equal to about fifteen millions per annum. The article further presents information on Lake Balkash. Lake Balkash is in possession of the strongly centralized and intelligent Government of Russia. At present it is but the cesspool of a productive province which might be made much more productive if the entire water supply were used for irrigation.

The diplomatic talks going on Moscow can have only one of three possible outcomes. Figuratively speaking, the men who have been fighting near the edge of a precipice can agree--out of fear, if for no other reason--to seek a tolerable solution of their differences; they can arrange to do their fighting at a safer distance from the brink; or they can decide to carry, on as they have, and risk the almost certain plunge into the abyss. The world is naturally grateful for a chance to hope, but any optimism must be tempered by the fact that only an approach to a full settlement can offer more than a deceptive breathing spell most fundamental sort. In the last analysis, there can be a real settlement only when the Soviet Union is convinced that the West is not engaged in a conspiracy against its very existence and the West is assured that the aim of the Kremlin has ceased to be world revolution.

The article focuses on the court case reflecting on the tensed international relations between Great Britain and the Soviet Union resulting in the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Great Britain over the charges of espionage in the country. It informs that Sir Alec Douglas-Home, British Foreign Secretary in Manhattan, New York, N.Y. spent 80 minutes with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in which he emphasized that the British step of expelling diplomats was designed to remove an obstacle to good relations between the countries.

Presents several letters to the editor commenting about the Russian secret treaties. Illustrates the methods of democracy; invites American public opinion and readers suggestion on the Russian treaties by the "Evening Post"; Commenting on Petrograd and Bolshevik revelations when Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky asked the Allied Governments for a restatement of war amounted to a challenge to England and France; description about publication of diplomatic documents and negotiations between Russia and her allies.

The article focuses on Russian Lieutenant General Vasily Stalin, son of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin. He commanded a fighter division in Poland in 1944 and was promoted to major general in 1946. Three years later, he was again promoted to lieutenant general. The article also details the growth of Russian air power during the 1940s.

The article examines the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. and Russia if the two countries will go to war. In terms of population, the Russians have an advantage over the Americans, while in terms of quality of manpower, the U.S. is better than Russia. The two countries' naval, army and air forces are also examined. The opinion of Doctor Demitri Shimkin of the Russian Research Center in Harvard University concerning Russia's strength is also cited.

The article examines the foreign relations between the U.S. and the Communist regime of Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman Josip Broz Tito. It presents an overview of the social, economic, and political conditions in Yugoslavia based on the observations of journalist Andre Laguerre. The article also presents an assessment of the ability of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to contain Tito in relation to U.S. efforts to check the spread of Communism.

Soviet premier Joseph Stalin understands and fully approves the national-defense policy of France in keeping her armed forces at a level required for security. With this simple, matter-of-fact statement the joint communiqué which announced the conclusion of the Franco-Russian Non-Aggression Pact in May, 1935, prepared parties of the Communist International for the reversal of its official position on armaments and war. There had been signs and portents of the coming change for some time. In May, 1934, foreign commissar Maxim Litvinov had startled the world by declaring in the Disarmament Conference that the League must be enabled to give aid to any nation threatened with aggressive attack by another, whether such aid be moral, economic, financial, or otherwise.

Comments on changes in the foreign policy of Soviet Union. Creation of a non-aggression pact with Germany; Acceptance of the Nazi doctrine that calls for the assertion of sovereign rights of great powers over their weaker neighbors; Criticism on the duplicity of Premier Joseph Stalin; Argument on the departure of the state from the concept of socialism; Prediction of prolong war suffering under the dictatorship of Stalin.

Focuses on the turn of events behind the non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. Insight to the political events in recent months that lead to the pact between the two countries; Projected benefits from the pact to Germany when it comes to attack on Poland and access to supplies from the Soviet Union; Account of sluggishness and naivety associated with Western powers in the signing of any sort of a pact with the Soviet Union; Opposition of Russian military existence by Poland on latter's territory; Gains from the pact to Soviet Union when it comes to venturing in the East.

The article presents information on Soviet Union's estimates of chances of general war in 1951. Whether they were directly or only indirectly responsible for the invasion of South Korea, they were profoundly disturbed by the sharp American reaction to it. World opinion held that the North Koreans did not have a good moral case and Moscow, Soviet Union went out of its way therefore to dissociate itself from them and to give them openly the most heartfelt moral support. After the Inchon landing Russian propaganda used the North Korean debacle as an opportunity to stir up Anti-American hatred throughout Asia.

If German dictator Adolf Hitler ever wins this war, fancy will have scored a monumental triumph over stuffiness. From the moment the little Viennese psychopath came to power-an event that was in itself a monstrous improbability-each step he has taken has been precisely the step that sober analysts assured people that he could never take. And they always had reasons. Since Soviet Union was the Nazis' arch-enemy and would of course be involved in any war from the start, Germany was obviously caught in a vise, unless, of course, it made peace in the West and turned on Soviet Union. So Hitler made peace with Soviet Union and war on the West. Once again Hitler had a pretty good idea of what the world thought was impossible, or at least highly unlikely, and a shrewd notion that this very attitude rendered the most dubious undertaking a likely bet.