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Focuses on various recent socio-political issues and developments across the world. Discussion of the fairness of the trial of fraud case against U.S. attorney general, Harry M. Daugherty; Details of charges of bribery against Daugherty by several companies; Charge of arms smuggling by the Department of Justice; Report that the forthcoming report of the commission of experts will recommend the establishment of a gold bank in a neutral country to regulate German currency, the hypothecation of the German railroads, the requirement that Germany must pay as heavy taxes as any of the Allies, and that she must pay from the outset as much in reparations as she can; Introduction of new complication into the European group of countries by the dissolution of the German Reichstag; Evaluation of the testimony presented by Senator Edward B. McLean before the U.S. Senate; Announcement of reduction of present number of properties by disposing of the New York Herald newspaper by Frank A. Munsey, owner of several newspapers in the U.S.; Discussion of the newly introduced laws under Section 23 of the pending administration immigration bill; Industrial demonstration against the organization, Ku Klux Klan in California.

Presents news related to political developments around the world. Comment on politician M. Poincare's restrictions on the proposed conference on Germany's capacity to pay; Germany's policy of evasion; Inability of Germany to pay her debts to the U.S.; Capacity to pay is wholly based on German capacity to work hard and consume little; Criticism of liberals regarding the policy of Poincare; Control over Saxony by the Berlin Government; Revolution in France; Negotiations between France and the Ruhr industrialists regarding the liquor proposal; Attitude of American public toward the project of Russian relief; Claims that a little materialism of the Americans would be conducive to the peace and happiness of the world; Status of English woman who marries an American husband; Comments on a tariff that checks imports from Europe and checks equally exports from the U.S.; Relation between exports and imports; Information about colored eye-glasses.

This article focuses on various political and social issues around the world. The formal announcement made through the financial agents of Japan in this country, that the Japanese government has decided on a drastic cut in its military and naval outlay, need cause no surprise. Germany has explained that when she let loose her latest Moroccan thunderbolt, she was merely offering advice, but French journalists when discussing German policy with regard to Morocco will continue to use the favorite adjective, brutal. The Kentish hop-growers are having a hard year. A few months ago they were complaining so bitterly on the "dumping," of American hops on the English market that a select committee was appointed to report on the industry. A striking difference may be pointed out between the Roman Catholic Church and the average young person who writes verses for the magazines.

This article focuses on various political issues around the world. The question which has been raised in the discussion about the cession of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany, whether, even supposing the inhabitants were not wholly French in feeling, France could defend her unwillingness to surrender them on the ground of prescription, can hardly yet be said to be a practical one, as far as the present war is concerned. The controversy which has been raging for some months between the New York papers about the ownership of the telegrams received from certain correspondents at the scene of hostilities in Europe, is, perhaps, except the great increase in the consumption of lager-beer, the most curious incident of the war on this side of the ocean. It is, of course, very unfortunate that so valuable an officer as secretary Jacob Dolson Cox should resign his place in the cabinet, but it would be still more unfortunate if the public were left in ignorance of, or under any misapprehension about, the cause of his resignation.

The U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's breakdown, with the consequent collapse of his trip on behalf of the treaty, will call forth regret everywhere even, among those whom he has been denouncing as cowards and pro-Germans. No one in American history has had heavier burdens, or lived under a more terrible strain. The final nail was driven into the coffin of self -determination last week when the Germans were compelled to sign-agreement at Versailles nullifying that section of their recently adopted Constitution making possible a union between Germany and German-Austria.

This article focuses on various socio-political issues. Of the many inconsistencies in which the bulk of the press is wallowing nothing is more extraordinary than its treatment of the Socialists. At the very moment when Americans are eagerly longing for the news of the triumph of the Socialists, when they rightly see in the Liebknechts and Haases and Scheidernanns the one hope of a safe Germany, free from the curse of its autocracy and its militarism. The U.S. President Herbert Hoover may derive some consolation from the present German food dictator's predicament. Herr von Waldow is the fourth or fifth incumbent of this Prussian office, all his predecessors having been dismissed because of their unpopularity. Now he, himself, seems to be standing on the brink, because he has permitted some of the munition companies to profiteer at the expense of their employees.

This article focuses on developments related to several issues from various parts of the world. The first article discusses the enterprise and daring of the German sailors who brought a submarine into the harbor of Baltimore. Submarines have sailed as far from home before, but here is an undersea boat which is not a war vessel. It was built especially for the purpose of resuming direct communication by water between Germany and the United States. In another article the focus is on the purchase of the New York Sun by owner of the New York Press. Thus this is a fresh reminder of the instability of newspaper enterprises.

The article reports on socio-political and economic developments in different countries during the year 1916. Particulars cabled from Berlin regarding the new taxation measures of the German Government show that the Imperial Secretary of the Treasury was a little premature in his statement. Political influence in the schools of Puerto Rico is officially, recognized in the Jones bill for a new organic act for the island. It places the authority for the appointment of all teachers in the hands of the Commissioner of Education, thus taking it away from the school boards.

This article presents information about socio-political developments around the world as of July 15, 1915. Comments by the German press, so far as sent by cable, on the reply of the German Government to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's protests are all of one mould. The news of the surrender of all the remaining German forces in South Africa is not of high military importance, but has great dramatic significance and a wide suggestiveness.

This article reports on developments of the First World War. The tenor of the U.S. President, Woodrow Wilson's reply to the German note is not in doubt. The differences between the U.S. and Germany can be stated in terms of international law. But the dispute can also be thought of as involving, not merely two Governments but two moralities. In the early months of the First World War, there was constant complaint by the German sympathizers that Americans did not know what was actually going on in Germany. Now the thing is reversed. Germany is in ignorance of the American feeling, especially American feeling about the Lusitania.

The article presents focuses on various social and economic developments. Voices have been heard in Germany declaring that old notions of international law have perished. At the annual public meeting of five Academies in Paris, France on October 26, a paper was read by M. Louis Renault, of the Institute, on "War and the Law of Nations." The unfavorable report of the American Federation of Labor's traveling commission on municipal ownership in Europe reveals that service, fares, and wages are alike unsatisfactory on European municipal lines, and may be somewhat discounted on the ground of prepossessions.

On October 18, 1948, the newspaper "National Guardian," published its first issue. The newspaper was founded as and remained, an independent and independently owned newsweekly which took strong issue with basic U.S. policy, both foreign and domestic. That is what produced the inquisitorial subpoenas, not the idiotic allegations of adherence to the "international communist conspiracy." The genesis of the National Guardian was in Germany, in 1945, when Cedric Beifrage, co-founder and first editor of the Guardian, and the author were engaged in a combined Allied operation to help set up what was optimistically termed "the new free democratic German press" on the ruins of the Nazi press.

Focuses on living conditions of the territories occupied by the Soviet Union from Germany during the World War II. Attempts of Novoye Slovo to be the leading Russian publication that can have a decisive influence on the press in the occupied regions; Opposition of Jews by the publication; Prominence of urban living patterns in local news; Disappearance of the Soviet administration and the arrival of Germano-Italian troops in Gorlovka; Destruction in Smolensk under the Soviet rule; Problems related to economy, sanitary, educational and social security, which were to be faced by municipal administration; Attempts of some people for reconstruction of the scientific institutes; Immunity of the population to Nazi propaganda; Decrease in population figures following the destruction of cities wrought by the war; Deprivation of poor people from food; Prominence of handicraft and artisan workshops in local production; Consistency in productive capacity maintained by the industrial center Mariupol; Concentration of Germans on food production; Probability of hopes for millions of tons of Ukrainian wheat which have been far from realization which is openly admitted by the German authorities; Provision for the establishment of a "communal economy" by the Nazis with communal cultivation of the soil; Urge of Nazis to replace the communal economy by an individualistic economy.

This section offers news briefs on business around the world as of October 1931. It is reported that financial and political tensions in Europe caused by England's abandonment of the gold standard have relaxed. In France, gold shipments arriving from the U.S. and Holland and going out to Belgium and Switzerland have left the Bank of France with net gain but with counterbalancing heavy decrease of foreign deposits. To meet British automatic reduction of real wages, a new wage cut campaign was launched in Germany.

The article focuses on Joseph Pulitzer, a philanthropist. Pulitzer was not like three others who left their mark upon American journalism--Carl Schurz, Oswald Ottendorfer and Henry Villard, a product of the Revolution of 1848. He belonged to a later generation of immigrants and did not cross the ocean as a result of that idealistic uprising which would have liberalized Germany and spared the world its greatest agony had it succeeded. But the fact is nevertheless that New York owes what is today perhaps its most liberal English-language daily to a simple Jewish-Hungarian immigrant of humblest origin.

There is a scarcity of raw materials, foodstuffs and commodities in Germany. Responsibility for this situation must be borne by the "Four-Year Plan," which has placed Germany on a war-economy basis, with the whole industrial set-up concentrated on producing munitions, imports limited to raw materials for military purposes, and home products of good quality shipped abroad in order to obtain foreign currency to buy additional war material. While the population hungers, vast reserves of foreign oil, cotton, anti wheat are being stored for military use.

The article examines German prices and competition in international markets. Several causes of differences between the domestic value and the foreign exchange value of the German monetary note are discussed, as well as efforts to stabilize its valuation. Economic sanctions on Germany after World War I only exacerbated their economic crisis, eventually leading to a complete economic collapse. The devastating effects of this collapse on German domestic commerce, its currency exchange rate and wages and salaries are detailed.

The article reports and comments on news events taking place during the week of September 21, 1938. A number of items are covered including the mistrial of Jimmy Hines who stood accused of conspiracy in New York City, the possible impact of a European war on Spain and the oppression of trade unionists in Nazi Germany.

Focuses on the decline of capitalism under the administration of Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler in Germany. Public spending for the purchase of armaments or for one-sided extension of war industries; Investments in road construction for military strategic purposes; Dependence of German industrialists on the needs of the State bureaucracy and of militarism by reducing the renewal of technical equipment; Attempt of Hitler to console the industrialists by comparing the social peace within Germany to the social unrest in France or America.

This article focuses on several issues relate to Germany. A spectacle to make men rub their eyes in amazement, this was New York in the days devoted to the reception to the German transatlantic fliers and their Irish companion. On every Fifth Avenue lamp-post the German flag was entwined with the Irish and the American and two out of every three bore a German name. The way of the translator seems to be even harder than was indicated in an editorial called The Art of Translation which appeared in the 1st foreign book number of the journal "The Nation." A number of translators wrote to finding fault with the position-even with praise of their profession.

Reports on developments in world politics. Germany's decision by agreeing that Poland is to be admitted to a non-permanent seat on the Council provided the French block is at the same time reduced in strength through having Czechoslovakia succeeded by a neutral; United States Senate's investigation of the Tariff Commission; Intention of Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot to contest the Republican nomination for Senator in the spring primaries; Foreign trade figures of the United States as of February 1926.

The article offers information on the expansion of Beckman Instruments Inc. operations which includes the launch of company's plant in Germany. It states that the expansion of German operation expanded the company's growth by threefold. It offers information on the exhibition of the company's products in the German Industries Fair at Hanover, Germany. It states that the bulk devices of the company were designed as laboratory instruments.

Focuses on some social events in Germany. Description of a snippet that describes the attitude of a school girl named Katie who has never tasted sugar nor her other family members eat potatoes and margarine after the World War I; Revelation of the inflationary condition of Germany through school incident; Overview of business condition in Germany.

It is perhaps idle to make any conjectures on the results of the interview of the three Emperors in Berlin, Germany; and it is a remarkable fact that so far nothing has transpired of the conversations held. between the three sovereigns and their ministers. The secret has been so well kept that journalists have been thrown back on their imagination and their instinct. For the present day, it may be said that the moral director and ruler of European politics, the arbiter of the European Continent, is Prince Otto von Bismarck. Whatever was done and said at Berlin was said and done under his influence and under his control. The key of the interview of the three Emperors must, therefore, be sought in the character and opinions of Prince Bismarck himself. Bismarck, who knows all the forces of the times, had secured many allies in the press of Vienna, Austria. Some of the leading papers of the Austrian capital are more Prussian than the papers of Berlin. The Jews, who are very numerous in Vienna, and very influential, are all his allies, as Bismarck represents in their eyes the cause of religious freedom.

Replies to philosopher and writer, Ralph Barton's accusation that the periodical is pro-Germany. Reasons behind Barton's claim; Periodical's assertion that it has supported Colonel Roosevelt's plea that the United States should protest against the violation of Belgium; Argument of the paper against an embargo on munitions; Moral issue of the war according to the periodical; Defense of the paper to Barton's claim that the publication has criticized more than once the statements of the Allies spokesmen; Criticism of the paper against Barton's alleged derision towards the employment of human reason in relation to the war.

The article presents information on some books. George Young's "The New Germany" is the result of studies made in Germany since the armistice. The book is an account of the German Revolution, and concludes with a chapter on the Treaty of Versailles and one on the German Constitution, the text of which is given in the appendix. On the whole, although necessarily impressionistic and journalistic in character, the work is an intelligent account of the political transformations in Germany since the armistice. In the "The Secrets of Animal Life," by J. Arthur Thomson, the author has taken two score technical papers, published in erudite Transactions and Journals, and retold them in popular language.

This article presents information from the newspapers published from countries other than the U.S. as of April 19, 1919. J.L. Garvin writes in a paper on "The Paris Conference: The Last Phase" in the London "Observer" that no political lunatic is so distempered as to suppose that Germany can pay the whole cost of the First World War or for that purpose, can be kept in a state of tribute and steerage for fifty or a hundred years. A 5000-word résumé of the Memorandum published in the Italian newspaper "Giornale d'Italia" of March 13, 1919, begins by explaining that the Italian claims are based on justice and moderation. Italy went to the war with two aims: the liberation of her oppressed prisoner of wars and the attainment of safe frontiers by land and sea.

The article presents a profile of the German politician Georg Ledebour. Born at Hanover on March 7, 1850, Georg Ledebour received a primary and high-school education. He became interested in newspaper work and acted as editor of various democratic papers, later on becoming one of the editors of the Berlin Vorwaerts. In October, 1900, he was chosen to succeed Liebknecht the elder as representative of the sixth district of Berlin. There are few better fighters, sharper speakers, or more skilful parliamentarians in the German Socialist movement than Ledebour. During the World War I, Ledebour belonged to the Minority Socialists. On August 3 and 4, 1914, at the special meeting of the Reichstag group, called to decide what stand the party should take on the war, Ledebour was one of the three who maintained to the last that the party should vote against the war budget.

This article reports that Germany has established its new line of defense during the World War I. Germany's ideal offensive is the attack by surprise, while her idea of defense is to prepare for the worst. The fact is that the River Meuse in France is being treated as a military frontier, and Germany is trying to have control over it. She has been fortifying intensively the valley of the Meuse clear across Belgium. All this long valley of the Meuse forms a natural defense of whatever army holds it.

Presents several letters to the editor. Reference to charges that Germans poisoned the wells in South Africa; Issues regarding production of Nobel prize winners in the United States; Information on fee charges of lawyers.

The average quality of Germany's lyrical productions is not in proportion to its enormous output. It suggests either lack of self-criticism in the poets or lack of judgment in the publishers. Among the poets whose half-century mark was celebrated last year, Karl Henckell was a conspicuous representative of the young generation that shocked the good German philistine of the century's end. A new book of verse by poet Adolf Frey, "Neue Gedichte," reflects delightfully the strong personality of the Swiss writer. The latest volume of verse by poet Stefan George, "Der Stern des Bundes," breathes the abstract beauty and impersonal dignity which seen part of his personality. Since the outbreak of the war much militant and. patriotic verse has been written by German poets, and some of it has been published in handy little paper-covered booklets for distribution among the men at the front.

This article focuses on the democratic nationality. In Europe the idea of national polity is most nearly approached in the British Constitution; where, though the forms of royalty are still maintained, Parliament is omnipotent; and the voice of the. Commons, swollen by the voice of popular assemblies outside of Parliament, makes the nation felt as a power, though the people are still limited in suffrage, and though land, office, and social consideration are largely monopolized by the nobility. In Germany the full realization of nationality is still hindered by vicious and cumbersome political divisions, making the states a pasture ground for petty princes; while France vibrates from the extreme of popular sovereignty to that of imperial absolutism. Nevertheless the tendency of the modern period of society with which we stand connected is toward nationalization, and against either a feudal federation or a despotic centralization.

Presents several letters to the editor. Expression made by German chancellor on disarmament and arbitration; Discussion on the possible connection between a poem written by poet Walter Raleigh and a familiar song in dramatist William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice"; Comments on the origin of the periodical "Spectator."

The article presents information on books on science. The book "Edelsteinkunde," by Max Bauer is the second German edition which gives the result of forty years' study on the part of the author, who is founder and director of the Mineralogical Institute of Marburg, editor of the "Jahrbuch fur Mineralogic," and author of more than a hundred scientific papers. The first edition of this book appeared in 1896 and the work has long been recognized as the foremost authority on the subject. But since the day of its original production, several new gem-stones have been discovered. The researches of physicists and mineralogists have brought to light a number of important facts touching the constitution of various precious and semi-precious stones.

Presents information on the intermittent propaganda war between the Soviet Union and Vatican. Reasons behind this altercation; Role of mass media in bringing out the issue; Accusation of Vatican of attempting to absolve dictator Adolf Hitler's Germany from responsibility for all the abominable deeds she has committed; Discussion on the issue of possible rapprochement between the Soviet Union and Vatican; Concerns over Soviet foreign and domestic policy.

The German press, including the great democratic dailies, is gagged and throttled. Not only all Jewish journalists, but all Socialists, Republicans, and liberals have been quite simply thrown into the streets. All papers are forced, under pain of immediate confiscation, to roar in unison with the Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels. The Germans are fond of talking about the Schmach, the shameful humiliation to which they have been subjected. They sank to its lowest depth by their own action when on March 29 the Polish Ambassador at Berlin, M. Wysocki, complained at the Auswartiges Ann, giving harrowing chapter and verse, of outrages committed against Polish nationals of the Jewish faith.

The article reports on developments resulting to a stable business market in Germany. The German government has successfully handled the Polish troubles, quickly settled the Ruhr wage conflict and gained several victories on the price reduction issue. Meanwhile, the German government believes that the country's credit abroad will be affected by the promulgation of a budget by presidential emergency decree.