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The article focuses on the foreign policies of U.S. and Soviet Union. It discusses the initiatives taken by U.S. for developing the national economies of Europe and Far East and strengthening their military defenses. It also reports on Soviet Union being more interested in consolidating its hold in Eastern Europe before advancing further into west.

The article presents information on the recent successes of the U.S. President Richard Nixon Administration in breaking up the hashish smuggling operations. As reported, these successes are the result of the Nixon Administration's diligent effort to enlist other countries in the American efforts against drugs. According to John T. Cusack, chief U.S. narcotics agent in Europe, French and Swiss agents have arrested two members of a drug ring in Nice and Geneva and made the largest single haul ever made of U.S.-bound hashish. Since the use of hard drugs has begun spreading among the young people in other countries, the governments of these countries have become more cooperative.

The article describes the political situation in Washington, D.C. U.S. President Richard Nixon drew the spotlight from the Sentinel battle in the Senate when he forced the issue into a broader context of the country's dealings with the Soviet Union. Nixon asserted his role as world leader while in Europe which was enhanced by his performance in a 55-minute television press conference. Separate inquiries by the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, the Armed Services Committee and defense appropriations subcommittee will explore alternatives to Sentinel.

The article reports on the huge number of American tourists who visited various countries in Europe in 1952. The countries that were visited include Great Britain, France, Spain and Switzerland. It cites several new ships that are being put into operation, particularly the United States Lines' superliner America, which is claimed as the largest ship made in the U.S. and the third in the world.

The article presents world news briefs. The relationship between the U.S. and Europe is changing in that western Europe is no longer dependent on outside support. Senator Clinton P. Anderson will become chairman of the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee. A Texas court has ruled that people can calculate a "depletion allowance" to account for the reduction in available water on their taxes.

The article reports on the move of Italian financiers Michele Sindona of buying two major companies in the U.S. It notes that Sindona bought 10% of the stock of the food company MeNeill & Libby and major stock of the New Hampshire-based paper producer Brown Co. According to Sindona, the purchase is gearing towards building a business relationship between Europe and the U.S.

The article presents news briefs and commentary concerning international and U.S. politics as of the week of November 13, 1961. The fable "The Tiger Who Would Be King," by James Thurber is presented. An overview of the debate on U.S. nuclear weapons testing is given, including anti-missile defense, the neutron bomb, lighter warheads, and more. The growing economic conditions in Europe are analyzed.

The article offers information on Elliott-Automation Ltd., a company owned by Sir Leon Bagrit that manufactures a broader range of automation hardware from computers to control instrumentation in Europe. It notes that Elliott continue to face the growing competition with the U.S. heavyweights such as General Electric Co. and Honeywell Inc. Elliott has cooperative deals with a U.S. company, National Cash Register Co. (NCR) in which Elliott handles the British manufacturing of NCR computers.

The article focuses on the success of Elliot-Automation Inc., a manufacturer of automation hardware in Europe, amidst competition particularly from U.S. companies. It says that the success of the company was due to the leadership of Elliot head Sir Leon Bagrit wherein the company has supplied automatic pilots for British fighter and manufactured for the coin-operated telephones. It adds that sales of the company will possibly increase due to the modernization of industrial techniques.

The article focuses on hearings on more liberal trade at the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee. Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges presented his testimony on the need for the U.S. for new authority to negotiate with the European Economic Community. Testimonies on other aspects of the bill were also presented including the international political aspect of a strong trading alliance between the U.S. and Europe to confront the Communist bloc.

The article discusses the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) where the dangers still exist because of its provocative nature and discusses the training of special nuclear units in Europe. It also discusses the proposal of Army Chief of Staff General Maxwell D. Taylor that six billion dollars should be added to the budget, on top of other proposed new defense projects, to develop an anti-missile missile. The article also discusses claims of a television program regarding war as futile as well as the news from the Latin American dictator to launch the country's own foreign program.

The article comments on North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) present military policy. The author do not advocate the dissolution of NATO in the foreseeable future, or believe that this or the collapse of the growing political, economic and cultural cohesion of Europe would result from an eventual withdrawal of foreign troops from other peoples' countries on the Continental mainland. The object of a policy of redeployment would be, in general terms, to contribute to the elimination of the present dangerous and unnatural division of Europe, and to the establishment of an international system under which the peoples of Europe, including the Russians.

This article discusses issue of unification of the Atlantic countries. The author has mentioned the differences in their ideas related to militarism, act of aggression, foreign policies and other issues. In the Korean aggression, the Soviet Union has chosen the fascist way. The Soviet Union has armed, directed and justified military aggression. While fifty-three nations joined in the United Nations to condemn aggression in Korea. Among the United States, Western Europe and the British commonwealth a far closer union is necessary and possible today.

The article focuses on the visit of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson to Europe and Asia. In Europe, he called for a move beyond mere coexistence to peaceful engagement of East and West. He suggested reciprocal withdrawal of U.S. and Soviet troops from Germany. In Asia, he is trying to make sure that the U.S. is sincere in its efforts to make peace in Vietnam.

The article focuses on the technology gap between the U.S. and Europe. Commerce Secretary John Connor says that the gap can be called an industrial disparity in which the American activity is concentrated in high-technology industries which shape the economic life. It is attributed to Europe's failure in translating laboratory discoveries into sophisticated hardware and marketing its achievements. It is considered that Europe faces management and money gap in many ways than a technology gap.

The article discusses the ability of the McCarran Immigration Act to isolate U.S. science from key European ideas and knowledge, according U.S. scientists in the October 1952 issue of the "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists." They note the opposition of intellectuals to the act and its significance to communists in Europe. Nobel Prizewinner Harold C. Urey mentions the negative effect of difficulties in securing visas for foreign scientists. The publication stresses the fact that U.S. science is not self-sufficient.

Focuses on socio-political and economic issues related to various nations. Discussion of China's internal affairs, which may give rise to local conflict resulting in world conflagration; Supply of food by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to Europe; Enactment of more generous unemployment compensation, the full-employment bill and continuation of the United States Employment Service; Report on the question of whether or not unrestricted immigration from Palestine be granted to the tortured, impoverished and starving Jews of Europe; Sale of government-owned plants to the competitors of Aluminum Co. of America under conditions of equal opportunity.

The article focuses on the public relations crisis faced by the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. (ITT). Despite the lack of concrete evidence, the publicity is said to have damaged the public image of ITT and resulted to the decline of its common stock. Edward J. Gerrity Jr., ITT senior vice president for public relations, is involved in the fiasco. The implications for the ability of ITT to acquire companies in Europe are examined.

The article focuses on the planned economic and military alliance between the U.S. and western Europe. It notes that while U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson pursues a tighter Atlantic community, he cannot commit his country to the alliance. Issues that the allied nations need to address are given which include the cold war between the East and West and the role of the West in shouldering the costs of gun acquisition. One aspect that should be considered in the economic plans for the alliance is the dollar gap between the U.S. and Europe.

The article assesses the strength and readiness of the Spanish armed forces under the regime of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in 1951. France and Great Britain have acknowledged the importance of the Spanish army in countering the expansion of Communism in Europe. The inability of the Spanish army to enhance its military equipment is cited as its weakness. The Spanish navy also lacks modern communication equipment.

The article deals with Europe's efforts to close the technology gap with the U.S. U.S. Secretary Robert S. McNamara claims that the U.S. is surpassing Europe in terms of technological development that will eventually create a technological imperialism. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson has warned against an industrial helotry with Europe producing conventional apparatus of a modern economy as opposed to the sophisticated one by the U.S. It is said that the U.S. advantage over Europe comes from the application of significant ideas and discoveries.