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The article presents news related to world politics. The margin of the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's victory on the neutrality bill came as a surprise even to the most loyal administration supporters. A long step has been taken toward a realistic peace policy. The U.S. has taken a stand which, though technically neutral, is actually against Hitler. The ghastly horrors of the German concentration camps, related in the new British White Paper, cannot be written off as a baseless wartime propaganda. Incredible as the facts may seem, they have been confirmed all too amply by other sources.

The shortage of consumer goods in Germany is much more severe than the shortage of food, and is growing worse. A great number of items, especially all articles of clothing, were rationed soon after the outbreak of war and can be bought only on points. But it is practically impossible to introduce the point system for all goods. A new device has therefore been invented. It is called the "household passport." The "household passport" was first instituted on May 19 at Ludwigshaven on the Rhine. Now no one can buy an unrationed article, not a saucepan, sieve, or sheet of writing paper, without presenting his booklet.

The article focuses on the discovery of Buchenwald, site of a Nazi concentration camp and extermination center in Germany. Crimes have been committed whose very magnitude stifles protest because the mind is stunned into incredulity. It was weeks before atrocities of the Brown Terror became known to the outside world, simply because editors of responsible papers abroad could not believe that even their picked reporters were not being misinformed or carried away by their own emotions. A young German told the author the story that how people were taken way from the concentration camp to a special station for torturing stubborn prisoners.

World War II has taken on a tempo that is hard to keep up with. After the fall of a regime the succeeding government has always considered it extremely important to obtain the documents of the deposed government intact. The facts that emerge from the secret protocols, correspondence, and orders are usually invaluable from the material, the moral, and the historical point of view. The Nazis learned this in 1918, when the German Republic, and also the Allies, derived immense advantage from the records of the imperial German government. It could be assumed, therefore, that the Nazi gang would do everything imaginable to prevent their papers from falling into strange hands.

The article offers information on the partition of Germany. It states that the European Advisory Council is planning to separate Rhineland-Ruhr area, under international control, and giving compensation to the Netherlands for flooded areas. According to the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, Poland is being offered a part of East Prussia south and west of Koenigsberg. It mentions that Germany may lose a large part of Bavaria to Australia and Czechoslovakia.

This article presents information regarding situation in Germany during the Second World War. Germany has a black market in services. This has arisen as a result of the attempt of the Nazi authorities to ration the work of the few artisans who are left. Direct contracting between artisans and the public is being forbidden in one city after another. Private housekeeping is dying out in Germany and is being replaced by communal meals. A dispatch from Berlin published in a Swedish paper says that at least 26,000,000 people eat their principal meal or all their meals in some 25,000 communal dining-halls, camp kitchens, factory canteens, and the like. They have to give ration points for these meals, but they are spared the immense difficulties and loss of time connected with marketing.