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The article presents information about sociopolitical condition in Asia. This year, a quick sampling of conditions in 12 countries indicated that the legend for the first time seems to have lost its meaning. Asia is no longer cannibalizing herself. The extremes of hope and hopelessness are being replaced by a renaissance of workaday pride and constructive realism. Five years ago the dominant mood in Asia was fear. Along the entire Asian frontier separating Communism from the free world, there were zones of chronic tension and a sense of impending tragedy. For Asians the tragedy of the Cold War was that it threatened to overwhelm them, to tear down their freedom along with their lives and their livelihood, even before they could start building what they wanted.

Focuses on the ideological basis of the Cold War. Consideration of the war as just another international power struggle; Representation of pure power politics in international conflict; Identification of Russian history with Communism; Development of a Byzantine autocracy; Counter-revolutionary reversion to Russian tradition; Ferocity and imbecility of an autocratic rule rejecting all legality.

The article profiles Lieutenant General Clarence Ralph Huebner, commander of the U.S. Army. Huebner enlisted as a private and he once had to fight the enemy and his own division too. He is the little-known lieutenant general who must lead the country's forces on German soil if the cold war becomes a shooting war.

The article focuses on the issue of Cold War between Soviet Union and the United States. The problem for the free world posed by the extraordinarily rapid rate of economic growth in the Soviet Union. Cold War is likely to be lost by the West the Soviets continue to demonstrate a capacity for rapid economic growth than the free world. The United States has now, and will increasingly have as each year goes by, all of the economic power it could possibly use to create all the deterrent military power it could possibly need. It makes not the slightest difference if a nation has 120 million tons of steel capacity or 150 million tons if it takes only 5 million tons to produce the necessary military weaponry.

Explores the involvement of lying, spying, deceit and treachery in war. Elimination of the butchery and the material devastation in the Cold War; Need to discuss about peace terms in any war; Troubles faced by U.S. President John F. Kennedy; Moral degradation in war; Destruction of accumulated wealth; Cases of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai E. Stevenson.

Presents comments of the author on the cold war. Philosophical implications of the war; Comparison of the war with bad weather; Description of the nature of the war.