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The article focuses on events involving politics and government in the U.S. The Ford Foundation has donated over $100 million in support of advertisement-free educational television. The author questions the political threat posed by the governments of the Soviet Union and China to the U.S. The practice of the U.S. Department of Defense selling off surplus military supplies to countries around the world is discussed. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson has asked Congress to authorized new emissions standards for automobiles and industry.

The article focuses on events involving politics and government in the U.S. The U.S.S.R. and U.S. have a tentative agreement about nuclear non-proliferation which would include Great Britain, France and China. Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and other countries are explored after the Manila Conference was held in the Philipines to negotiate a peace for the Vietnam War. Theories about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy are explored.

Explains the inhibition to war of nations in the Cold War era. Assertion that the presence of nuclear weapons has contributed to the maintenance of peace; Explanation of the principle stating that the possession of absolute weapons limit conflicts; Analogy of the power play between countries in conflict and fighting between male rattlesnakes; Reasons behind the inhibition of a great power to use force against another power or a weak state; Contention that inhibition to war depends on popular opinion; Events that might end the Cold War.

Recommends a U.S. foreign policy of peaceful engagement with communist countries amid the escalation of the Sino-Soviet dispute. Claims that the policy of containment of Soviet Union expansion and liberation ceased to be relevant; Consequences of the Sino-Soviet split; Recognition by the Soviet Union of U.S. capacity to make counterattacks in case of war; Discussion on the policy of fraternization on the basis of firmness with Soviet leaders; Factors involved in the application of the policy of differentiated amity and hostility to China.

Discusses the mistakes committed by France and Great Britain and the U.S. in 1936 that led to the expansion of the Soviet Union into Eastern Europe. Actions taken by the Nazi government of Germany under Adolf Hitler in 1936 that should have earned decisive reaction from France and Great Britain; Explanation on the power of the U.S. to stop Soviet Union advance into Eastern Europe if she so wish to deal with Germany in 1936; Lessons that the U.S., France and Great Britain should learn from their mistakes in 1936 that can help them in their efforts to contain Soviet communism in Eastern Europe.

The article presents news briefs and commentary concerning international and U.S. politics as of the week of October 23, 1961. Domestic criticism concerning the U.S.'s role in Germany and the extreme opinions of ultimate failure or victory are discussed. The requirements and selection of the United Nations Secretary General are analyzed. Preparations for a U.S. military review of censorship, public information, and military indoctrination policies are presented.

The article presents news briefs and commentary concerning international and U.S. politics as of the week of September 18, 1961. The tense foreign relations between the Soviet Union and the United States are discussed, highlighting the issues of weapons testing and preemptive actions out of fear. Efforts of peace talks hoping to end the Algerian colonial war from France are explored. The appointment of George D. Woods to the U.S. government position of Foreign Aid Director is announced.

The article presents news briefs and commentary on international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of July 3, 1961. Negotiations and relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over government in divided Germany are analyzed. The personnel profile of the members of the Central Intelligence Agency is discussed. Evidences pointing towards a possible famine in China are presented.

The article presents news briefs and commentary on international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of June 19, 1961. The reformation of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the wake of several failures in international affairs is discussed. The U.S.-Soviet relations over the possible reunification of Germany are explored. The need of government provision for Cuban refugees after the failed invasion in April is reviewed.

The article presents news briefs and commentary concerning international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of January 2, 1961. An overview is provided for world population statistics and its effects on possible future U.S. foreign aid programs. The development of a heart-beat broadcasting device for infants is discussed. The political conflicts and stability of Laos is explored.

The article presents information on the U.S. politics. As a campaigner, riding a wave of popular revulsion against wartime urgencies and stringencies, Richard Nixon had gained a series of impressive victories. Then came the ebb tide, and in 1954 he found himself for the first time playing a lead in a more turgid drama. As the 1952 crusade lost momentum the outlook for the Republicans had turned equivocal. Disillusionment set in; there was dissatisfaction over continuing budget deficits; over high taxes; over the business recession; over the evident fact that the General had not worked miracles and the no less evident refusal of the Cold War to go away.

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.

The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of October 31, 1971. Renewed concern over missile research and arms build-up between the Soviet Union and the U.S. is discussed. Problems of compliance with the federal price-freeze are described. The state of legal civil rights enforcement regarding equal opportunity employment is analyzed.

Profiles U.S. Senator Scoop Jackson. Popularity of the Senator in Washington; Details of his campaign for Democratic presidential nomination; Reference to his staunch advocacy of full-employment measures; Career background of the Senator; Refusal of any close personal association with Pentagon brass; Acceptance of cold-war premises with the Soviet Union.

The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of July 27, 1971. An overview of the Cold War conflicts centering around Berlin, Germany is presented. Controversy surrounding arts censorship in Atlanta, Georgia over issues of anti-lewdness is discussed. The public release of U.S. federal finance records of foreign military assistance is explored.

Analyses the U.S. policy of foreign intervention in the face of the Cold War. Departure of the U.S. policy from Neutrality Proclamation which envisaged nonintervention in other nation's affairs; Refusal of Washington to intervene in the wars between France and her enemies even though the U.S. was far more deeply committed to come to the aid of France by the terms of the Treaty of Alliance; Argument that unlimited power of the Executive in foreign relations is no longer justified as an emergency power; Changes in the response of the U.S. on various international issues.

Discusses the role of Great Britain, through Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, to negotiate with Russia and the U.S. as of December 1961. Role of the British government in moderating U.S. policy during the Cold War; Analysis of the absence of conciliation in British policy within areas such as the Middle East; Replies to those who argue that the boundless aims of the Soviet Union make it useless and dangerous to negotiate; Attraction of Britain to projects for disengagement.

Presents information on the rising expectations of the Americans with regard to the improvement in their socio-economic conditions. View that in the U.S., one needs a revolution of non-expectation; Opinion that the U.S. should make sacrifices in order to compete with communism and win the Cold War; Criticism of the U.S. administration headed by former President Dwight D. Eisenhower; Opinion that Americans need now a sense of reality.

Opposes a foreign policy analysis prescribed by U.S. Department of State Secretary John Foster Dulles that there is a single communist movement that embraced countries collectively under the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union in 1961. Claim that the Soviet Union is an expanding autocratic empire rather than a Marxist state; Suggestion that the international communist movement was breaking up into national communism; Balance of power between the Russian and Chinese communist camps.

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.

Focuses on the idea that the Cold War is a struggle between rival ideologies. Discussion on capitalism, liberal democracy and freedom; Importance of the concept of truth in human thought; Recognition that the disrespect for simple truth is a staple of demagogy; Membership in a particular class in orthodox Marxism; Class relationship and means of production; Comparison of useful lie and unuseful truth.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Reflections on Nuclear Pacifism," which discussed doctrine of unilateral disarmament to avert the nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; Reaction to an article about the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy as U.S. Attorney General; Comment to a review of the book "The Effects of Mass Communication."

Presents information on the Chinese revolution and discusses its impact on the U.S. Statement that it signals the opening of a new phase in the Cold War, aimed not at the destruction of the U.S. but at its isolation; Details of the history of Chinese revolution; Role played by China in the first Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in Cairo; Peking's interest in the underprivileged masses of the rest of the world; Significance of the flow of political delegation from underdeveloped world to China; Call for persistent struggles against the U.S. imperialism by the press and Chinese political leaders.

This article presents a literary review. When "Doctor Zhivago," was first published in the West, it had very favorable reviews. In the United States only the daily reviewer of the "New York Times," dated suggest that while it was a good book, it might not be as great as his colleagues thought. In the Soviet Union all was quiet until Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize; thereafter the book was treated exclusively as a Cold War property. There can be no doubt about the literary beauty of the novel. In spite of the organizational weaknesses mentioned by some of the reviewers, Pasternak succeeded in writing a great piece of poetry in prose. l

This article discusses the political significance of 'disengagement" in Central Europe. Disengagement means drawing the armed forces of North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Soviet Union apart from one another and establishing joint control over the area in between. It implies substituting cooperation for conflict along the sensitive frontier of the Cold War. The idea of military disengagement has figured in the diplomatic proposals of both West and East more than once in the last few years, but largely as an element in the propaganda battle.

Focuses on the proposal for the military disengagement in Central Europe. Proposal for a mutual withdrawal of Soviet forces behind Soviet frontiers and the U.S. forces from Europe. Belief of the people that world peace depended on the balance of mutual terror; Local war of three non-Communist governments against the Soviet Union, with the help of Allies; Assumption underlying current Western policy in Europe is that America will respond by massive thermonuclear retaliation to any major Soviet attack; Factors responsible for the decline of communism in the Soviet Union; Statement that the Soviet control of Eastern Europe depends on the presence of the Red Army; Role of the military disengagement in Europe, on Cold War, going on among the nations. INSET: "DISENGAGEMENT".

The article looks at challenges to U.S. foreign policy. According to the author, the largest problem for the U.S. in the coming decade will involve its relations with the African-Asian bloc. The article discusses the Hungarian revolution, the Suez canal crisis, communist countries, and the Cold War.

This article focuses on the Red China's struggle for respectability and recent exploitation of Hong Kong's Mercantilism by it. Because of its exposed position, Hong Kong, China, is sensitive every policy innuendo affecting the mainland. Hong Kong's preoccupation is trade and especially trade with Red China. The colony's economic barometer flutters nervously with every shift in the cold war policy line. Recently, the immediate result of the British announcement, for the lifting of the ban on shipments of rubber from Malaya to China, was a bad case of jitters. Some Hong Kong traders shared the buoyancy of those in Singapore who bid up rubber futures. In early June 1956, after the removal of the Malayan rubber restrictions, editors of the newspaper, "China Mail," conceded that Red China would hardly be willing to settle for half a loaf.

The article focuses on the first Asian-African conference. Its momentary crises and its dramatic high spots have begun to assume proper perspective. The U.S. ideals fared well at Bandung, Indonesia while her interests fared better than most experts predicted they would. Allies triumphed at Bandung, making fervent, convincing pleas against Communism. The eloquent anti-Communists of several neutral nations, which made no move, however, to join the Cold War, seconded these. The Cold War and threat of atomic hot war between the U.S. and Soviet Union is the most important problem on the face of the earth.

Presents the author's opinions on the military policy of the United States. Views on the cold war; Discussion on the policy of Soviet Union Prime Minister Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev to transform Cuba into a military base; Views on the military policy of the Soviet Union.

Reports on the determination of the U.S. government to send an astronaut to the moon ahead of the Soviet Union. Space program of government; Availability of technological resources; Consideration of methods of landing spaceships on the moon.

Presents the author's views on the cold war in Africa. Plans of the Communist bloc to make a determined play for power throughout the country; Selection of Indian intellectual-aristocrat Rajeshwar Dayal to run the United Nations (UN) operations in Congo; Appointment of anti-Communist Joseph Mobutu as the commander-in-chief of the Congolese army by President Joseph Kasavubu, UN-recognized chief of the Congo; Policy of the UN to immobilize the forces controlled by the Kasavubu-Mobutu regime, in the name of preventing violence and maintaining law and order.

The article focuses on the collapse of Russia in the cold war in Germany. Soviets had lost the war because of two political defeats, first with the death of their great tyrant Joseph Stalin, and the second was the success of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in the German election. Adenauer and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had employed the Locarno Treaty to establish a durable peace by bringing Germany back into the community of nations.

The article focuses on the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the U.S. and in the Free Half of the World. Eisenhower's tasks include cleaning up the mess the Truman Administration leaves behind in Washington, uniting the Americans in doing their allotted world role, and waging the cold war. Because of the impotence and improvidence of recent American policy, the President is facing several political-strategic time bombs including the problems in Indo-China.

The article reflects on the armament of the U.S. against Russia. The author comments that the U.S. army has still a long way to go, in which assault transport planes, air-transportable equipments, as well as the techniques, are still patterned to World War II. The author is strongly concerned on the strength of the military corps.

Comments on the policy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. Lack of unity within the USSR; Reasons for the USSR's fear of invading Western countries; Discussion on the solution to ending the Cold War.

Profiles King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. Focus of the king on the neutrality of Sweden in the cold war; Interest of the king in horseriding; Marital backgrounds; Maintenance of the royal collection of Oriental art objects by the king; Amount of the annual salary of King Gustaf.

The article discusses the three major crises experienced by the government of the Soviet Union. In 1949, many high officials in the country had fallen when the government lifted the Berlin blockade and started its initiative of tactics during the cold war. Along with the political crisis it had experienced, the country also faced two other tremendous crises which were attributed to its economy and morale. Other foreign political failures were viewed in the succeeding era of governance.

The article reflects on the kind and extent of preparedness the United States needs to avoid a third world war and still enable them to win if attacked. The author points out that war is not inevitable and the United States' defense plans can be part of a strategy for lasting peace and outlines his idea of a "reasonable defensive force."

This article focuses on the relation between the U.S. and Morocco. Tunisia and Morocco, recently have emerged from France's tutelage and now are independent nations, war-torn Algeria, in the middle, remains for the time being French. The bitter fight for independence has left a heavy mortgage on North Africa. The U.S. maintain a string of air bases in Morocco that make this recently freed country, willy-nilly, a pawn in the cold war. Laid out eight years ago at a cost of some $500,000,000, these bases have of late become the subject of a controversy whose outcome may affect the U.S. dealings with the entire Arab world. Of the five major installations the U.S. operate, one is a naval air base on the coast, another is an inactive air base; the three others are operative bases whose lodgers are the long-range bombers of the U.S. Strategic Air Command.

Presents the short story "The Cold-War Blonde," by George Fielding Eliot.

Presents the author's views on the impending threat to the U.S. from Nikita S. Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union. Apprehension, that owing to his risk taking proclivities, Khrushchev could cause great damage to the U.S.; Penchant of Khrushchev for missiles; Efforts of Khrushchev to counter the atomic power of the U.S. by developing his own atomic artillery.

Analyzes how runaway inflation has become a major factor in the Soviet-American cold war. Impact of inflation on the human spirit; Effect of inflation on the purchasing power of the dollar; Importance of economic warfare for Soviet leaders.

Focuses on the impact of the cold war between U.S. and France on the global economy. Effects of the tariff laws on various businesses; Development of third-force strategies; Concerns over the supply of oil products in the U.S.

Discusses the foreign policy of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson as of 1966. Relations of the U.S. with Egypt; Policy of the administration of Johnson toward granting foreign aids during the Cold War.

Discusses possible reasons why Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev created the so-called Berlin crisis in the 1950s. Forces within the U.S. government which have been pressing for new negotiations with the Soviet government; U.S. government's alteration of its German policy; Krushchev's belief that communism could resolve the Cold War; Speculation on how far the Western powers would go toward some form of disengagement.

Reports on developments in the dispute between the U.S. and the Soviet Union regarding nuclear armaments as of February 1958. Importance of collecting the correct facts about the launching of Soviet earth satellites; Need for renewed negotiations with the Soviet Union; Re-examination of U.S. disarmament proposals.

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.