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The article provides world news briefs for the week ending September 1, 1941. Great Britain and the Soviet Union have invaded Iran to secure it as a route for supplies to help the Soviet Union resist German attacks. Germany is consolidating control over French Morocco. Nazi soldiers, assisted by 16,000 French police, raided the Eleventh Arrondissement of Paris and arrested over 7,000 Frenchmen to be sent to concentration camps.

Comments on the international political and socio-economic issues. Constraint migration of the German Jews into a huge concentration camps; Revision of the Neutrality Act; Mission statement of the New Western Front organization; Employment trends in California; Code of ethics of the radio broadcasting services; Approval of winter leave to Italian soldiers and officers following France's discontinuance of war restrictions along the Italian-French border.

This article discusses how the French government has interned thousands of German anti-fascist refugees in concentration camps on the grounds that they are enemy aliens. Some of those interned are Nazis, however most are proved fighters against Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler. The conditions in which these prisoners are forced to live in are inhuman.

The article presents a selected list of books of 1950. Some books are: Great Mistakes of the War," by Hanson W. Baldwin; "The Grand Alliance," by Winston S. Churchill; "Our Jungle Rod to Tokyo," by Robert L. Eichelberger; "The Road to Pearl Harbor," by Herbert Feis; "The Theory and Practice of Hell. The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them," by Eugen Kogod; "Escape to Adventure," by Fitzroy Maclean; "The Wooden Horse," by Eric Williams; "The Corning Defeat of Communism," by James Burnham.

This article focuses on economic and political conditions of several nations, during the World War II. Curious misconceptions about the basic economic philosophy of the New Deal have been revealed in comments on the new program for monetary control issued by the Federal Reserve System. During most of the past eight years, the U.S. economy has been acting in a sluggish manner which called for stimulants. The New Deal prescription was a mixture of cheap and plentiful credit with government investment to increase idle savings. Report has come to hand which demands immediate publication. It describes the inhuman treatment of Spanish Republicans interned in concentration camps in Algeria and French Morocco and constitutes a shocking indictment of the Vichy government, which is directly responsible.

Reports that in Israel 100 survivors of Nazi concentration camps are planting a new home at Beer Ya'aqov. Construction of an agricultural cooperative, known in Israel as a kibbutz; Details of loan given by the Department of Settlement to kibbutz; Discussion on the education policy which the kibbutz is now considering for its schools.

The article focuses on conditions in Cuba. Terror in the night, bombed homes and cafes, murders by army and police, flames in the cane-fields and wrecked trains, jails full of tortured prisoners, concentration camps, secret invasions on lonely beaches and insurgents in the hills, such is Cuba's rhumba of violence. Against the lurid background of death and fear, a joint Congressional Electoral Commission has been discussing an election law acceptable to the opposition parties.

This article discusses the situation in the U.S. aftermath the second world war. Fascism as a system of power and terror is dead. The author is of the views that the Americans are not prepared for victory. To people in the U.S., with their cities unbombed, their shores untouched, the lights cannot appear so bright as to the citizens of London, of Moscow, of Paris. Perhaps the people of the U.S. have supposed too full of horrors: the concentration camps, the pulverized cities, the millions of torn bodies, have used up their imaginative emotions so that the words of victory have lost their meaning.

The article reports on the U.S. Office of Production Management (OPM) which recognizes the importance of bus transportation to the U.S. defense. It states that the U.S. bus manufacturers convinced the OPM director William S. Knudsen regarding the importance of expansion of bus service to decentralized defense plants and to military camps. However it states the bus manufacturers are facing the problem of shortage of raw materials included aluminum and chromium.

The article focuses on the increasing camping activities with the use of house trailers and recreational vehicles in the U.S. It states that the growing number of families owning recreational vehicles led to the increase of vacation resorts and luxury campsites that cater almost 6.5 million families. It explains that camping by trailer offers a peripatetic retirement for older people and constant amusement for younger families without restaurant and hotel expenses. It highlights the Nettles Island which is designed for camping by trailer where amenities including tennis courts and gyms can be rented. Several trailer camps are also featured which include Outdoor Resorts' site camp in Orlando, Florida, the Camperland in Tennessee, and the Butterfield Country in San Diego, California.

The article focuses on the migration of people of East Pakistan into India. It mentions that unorganized flow of refugees with torn clothes, wooden boxes and sick children seek, shelter in India. It mentions that according to a report from Indian officials since the onset of civil war between east and west Pakistan, around 50,000 refugees enter the Indian mainland without food and shelter. It reports that refugee camps has been set up for the immigrants with limited food supplies. It further mentions that due to lack of sanitation and poor hygiene conditions disease like cholera diphtheria and tuberculosis is on rise.

The article profiles Frank W. Frueauff, the co-founder of Denver, Colorado-based public utility Henry L. Doherty & Co. Topics discussed include the rough reputation of the mining camp in Leadville, Colorado where he grew up, the family's transfer to Denver after the death of his father and start of work as a clerk for an electric company. Also mentioned is strategy to memorize the names of clients when they pay their bills and development of a positive relationship with customers.

In this article, the author recounts his experience on seeing problems of Saigon government in setting refugee camps in the village of Ben Suc, north of Saigon, Vietnam. He describes that 3,800 Vietnamese villagers were disposed of in various ways. Forty were shot when they tried to flee the encircling American forces, 100 "Vietcong suspects" were taken away to prison, the rest were bundled off in trucks and landing barges down the Saigon River to a refugee camp. The author met some of his friends, who had played a significant role at Ben Suc, and enquired about the situation. A great problem for those planning the operation described was that no refugee camp could be set up before-hand.

The article focuses on some issues related to politics in the United States. The decision rendered Monday by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding the sentence in the case of a bank wrecker, is an event of the first importance. One aspect of the decision peculiarly interesting at this time is the way in which it strengthens the wholesome tendency, at last manifest in the courts of appeal, to ignore trivial objections. The reported decision of the Defense Department against further army and militia maneuvers comes as a surprise, even to army officers, as General Leonard Wood's interview of Friday morning attests. It was not understood that the hardships of the troops taking part in August were extreme; certainly they were not so severe as those experienced a year before in the camp at Pine Plains, New York.

Focuses on the deportation of author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by the Soviet Union. Impact of the departure of Solzhenitsyn on the Soviet foreign policy; Statement made by U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, expressing neutrality on the exile of Solzhenitsyn; Role of Solzhenitsyn's exile in reinforcing the U.S.'s determination to tie the outcome of the European Security Conference to greater freedom for people and ideas to cross borders; Criticism made by Solzhenitsyn against the conditions in labor camps in the Soviet Union.

The article presents information about the book "The Seizure of Power," by Czeslaw Milosz. The novel opens with the advance of the Red Army into Poland. Peter Kwinto, a pre-war intellectual who had dabbled in French modernist poetry, is with it as a propagandist. So, too, are a number of other intellectuals, mostly Jews, several of whom, like Kwinto, had been in Russian concentration camps. Kwinto goes along because his mind is not yet made up. The novel soon shifts and new characters enter. The military and political condition is then described.

Reflects on the author's experiences in the United States Army. His memories at Fort Polk, a training camp for Pacific-bound troops in World War II in Louisiana; Information about his friends who have been drafted and sent to the camp; His involvement in a combat unit in Vietnam; Difficulties he encountered when he returned and began his re-adaptation to the United States; Realization of his dream of being a G.I.; Impact of his military experiences on his life.

Criticizes the U.S. war strategy for their battle against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong during the Vietnam war. Suggestions of military strategists that the U.S. must try to deprive their opponents of their resources; Questions regarding the increase in the number of airstrikes on Viet Cong after the U.S. took over management of the war; Purpose behind increasing airstrikes; Details of the U.S. report regarding the impact of bombings on South Vietnamese civilians; Details of the Operation Cedar Falls, which the U.S. undertook; Opinion that the result of American strategy has been the dramatic reduction of population under Viet Cong control; Concern among some journalists regarding significance of the U.S. victory when the refugee camp and the fire-free zone become the primary methods.

Presents excerpts from the author's unpublished book on the situation of Spanish refugees, who have been streaming over the border into France. Information on a refugee camp made into a factory for agricultural machinery; View that the whole impression in the camp is one of filth, misery and cold exposed to rats, spiders and all kinds of infectious diseases; Report that this camp was told to be an infirmary and that the refugees were quarantined here but actually this is a center of infection; Anguish of the refugees over the news that the French government has decided to expel the refugees, at least those who were unable to support themselves; Temporary adoption of some children by workers' families; Joyfulness of refugees on their departure to Bilbao, Spain.

Highlights that philosophy of the German Nazis towards woman. Life in the German concentration camps; Details of a woman's concentration camp in Hohenstein, Saxony; Evidence of brutality of the Nazis as depicted in the story of Elsa Steinfurth, who was arrested in 1933 and sentenced to one year in prison. INSET: Women Killed by the Nazis.

Focuses on the mistreatment and abuses of prisoners by the Nazis in concentration camps since the alleged attempt at revolt in Dachau, Germany. Condition of the prisoners at the camps; Details on the strong camaraderie between the Jews and the other confined men; Type of food given to each prisoners over a period of three days.

Discusses reasons for sending a man to a concentration camp in Germany. Risks of a man who refuses to change his political beliefs and continues propounding opinions that are detrimental to the Nazis; Number of social Democrats being sent to the camps for accepting graft or talking against the Nazi party; Problem of propaganda faced by the country in connection with the camps.

Comments on the implications of the military training program at Plattsburg, New York. Opinion that the camp is a training ground for American citizenship; Purpose of the program's developers to provide a permanent, sane, and sound military systems for the U.S.; Criticisms against universal and compulsory military service for other than strictly military reasons; Claims about the prevalence of tendencies towards national disintegration; Justification for a more efficient and authoritative national organization and a more emphatically collective social and industrial policy.

Reports on the British Parliament's sanctioning of the addition of one million men to the regular Army. Role of the War Office in the plan; Empowerment of the government of Great Britain to raise the land forces; Advocacy of compulsory British military service; Struggle for the Channel ports; Role of the government in the outbreak of war; Decline in the hardships of camps; Results expected from the English system.

This article describes the concentration camp of Esterwegen, which consists of two inclosures separated by a barbed-wire barricade in which there is a gate. The prisoners number from 1,000 to 1,200. They include criminals, Austrians, political prisoners, critics and pessimists, prisoners for training, and followers of Jehovah and Bible searchers. Jews against whom no legal case could be made, and whom the Gestapo had therefore arrested on such charges as sabotage of the German economy or violation of the rules concerning raw materials.

The streets of Moscow resound these days to the light tramp of children marching in twos to the tune of small drums and bugles. They are the pioneers or Soviet boy and girl scouts going off to summer camp where they will remain for from four to eight weeks. More than 100,000 children left Moscow during the first fortnight of this month. Additional groups are now en route. Other cities too are disgorging their young generation into the fields, meadows, mountains, and seashore. The pioneers' vacation will be much pleasanter this summer than in years gone by. It is not so much that material conditions in the camps have improved. This change pales in importance with the fact that the children will be bothered less with politics.

Discusses the National Defense Act of 1916, which deals with the regular United States army, the navy and marine corps, the national guard, the organized reserves, citizens' military training camps, and students at civil institutions under military instruction by army officers. War department authorization to establish and maintain a Reserve Officers Training Corps in non-military universities and colleges; Preparation for war as a powerful incitement to hostility instead of a preventive; International diplomacy toward avoiding war and bringing about a condition in which security can be had without armament.

Comments on the men, women and children who have been forcibly expelled from Asia Minor and Thrace. Relocation into refugee camps in Greece and Bulgaria; Moral obligation of the whole of Christendom to offer them asylum.

Boy Scouts have become common sights along the highways of the U.S. People see them everywhere in straggling, dusty little bands, carrying packs and luncheons, with handkerchiefs around their necks. They swarm on outgoing ferryboats and commuters' trains on Sunday mornings. They wig-wag from hilltops and camps along the dusty edges of the towns. Whatever may be the aims of the Boy Scout organization or its power for good or evil, it has added a recognizable feature to the American landscape, a feature as common as signboards along a railway line or radio aerials on the housetops.

Presents information on the problem of migratory labor in California. Creation of the Commission of Immigration and Housing, an agency primarily designed to cope with the many-sided aspects of the problem of migratory labor; View of Governor Culbert L. Olson on the plight of the migratory workers; Discussion of a program of social legislation related to the problems of the migratory labor; Report that the program authorizes the construction by the state of some thirty labor camps, to regulate labor contractors and to create a fair-wage-standard board for agricultural labor; Description of every effort that has been made to coordinate state and federal activities and to support such progressive federal agencies as the Farm Security Administration; Information on a state-wide conference of all state and federal agencies in any manner concerned with migratory labor; Fact that Governor Olson is not only concerned with improving the functions of the social-service agencies concerned with migratory labor, but is committed to the idea of working out a long-range program looking toward the solution of the problem itself.

Focuses on political conditions in three capital cities of Europe. Political stability in Paris, France; Decision of Paris to halt Fascist aggression; Ascendancy of Edouard Daladier to power in France; Rise in industrial productivity per labor in France following Daladier's ascendancy; Parade of the German troops through Berlin following their victory over Spain; Supervision of Nazis over hotels in the city; Separation of areas for Jews in the city; Inexhaustible nature of Polish natives; Construction of a port by Poland, which used to be a fishing hamlet surrounded by sand dunes; Rise in military activity in barracks of Danzig, a port in Poland.

The article explores why children's summer camps are a big business in the U.S. There is reportedly around 11,000 summer camps across the country that take in about 4 million kids for stays. Youth-serving agencies, such as the Girls Scouts and the YMCA, run the biggest single group, around 2,900. Camps sponsored by churches total more than 1,100. Industries benefiting from summer camps include insurance, stores, suppliers and transportation.

The article focuses on the stateless refugees who remain in West European camps. It describes their dormitory barracks abound in radios and how they were able to survive. It explores the plans of the United Nations (UN) officials to close down the European camps and how it affect the refugees. It also discusses the millions of Arabs who have huddled in camps in the Arab lands encircling Israel.

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.

About 452,000 Spanish men, women and children are staying in exile in rough barracks and deserted factories in France. France does not want to keep them. Conditions of the refugees in camps are better, when holes dug in the sand were the only protection against wind and rain, when the men stood in line for hours every day, subject to the insolence and rubber hose of the Senegalese guards, to obtain a quartet of a loaf of bread. The sick and wounded are receiving adequate medical treatment at six base hospitals. There is coffee for breakfast, and a thin meat soup and vegetables for lunch and dinner, not a nourishing diet for men deprived for months of solid food but a distinct improvement.

The article discusses the business of summer camps which is regarded as an in demand, yet unprofitable, business. It says that since 86% of the U.S. camps are nonprofit, the charitable influence restricts the scope of the business. It tells that camp businessmen venture on the business for reasons beyond profit making which include moderate living, 6-month working period, and socialization with children. It adds that the industry helps to improve the U.S. economy through job creation.

Focuses on problems faced by displaced persons (DP). Results of the investigation through DP camps; Description of a DP center; Diet given to in DP camps; Living conditions in DP camps; Comparison of life of Jewish DP's with that of German; Immediate needs of a DP not supplied by Army or United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; Necessity of taking out DP from camps.

Discusses General George Catlett Marshall's third biennial report on the U.S. defense system and the Second World War that was submitted to the Secretary of War. Opinion on the defense of the U.S. which had no field army, a pitiful air force whose obsolescent planes could hardly have survived a single day of modern aerial combat; Information on the U.S. defense system which suffered from a lack of motor transport, arms and in fact everything needed for a modern military machine; Information on the need for a program of defensive preparation which would involve compulsory nation-wide military training, a trained reserve always on call, a good stockpile of the latest weapons, a program of scientific research; Reports on the need for a plan for instant national conversion from peacetime to wartime production which could be carried out initially under enemy distant bombardment; Marshall offers opinion that American diplomacy will work best if the representatives hold a big stick behind their backs; Report that a war starts with a lightning attack to take people unaware and employing rocket weapons driven at supersonic speeds; The London Conference presented the pitiful and frightening spectacle of the best men the major power could muster screaming at each other, clawing for lines of communication and for mountain, river and water way defense-points; Mobilized, atom bombs described by the scientists as thousands of times more powerful than those dropped on Japan may have obviated the necessity for their existence by forcing an immediate capitulation.

Highlights the story of the survival of a person who returned from being a prisoner at the Buchenwald, site of a Nazi concentration camp and extermination center in Germany. Composition of the Buchenwald; Doctrine of communism prevalent in the concentration camp; Activities of the SS, the quasi-military unit of the Nazi party, used as a special police in the concentration camp; Experimentation upon inmates of the camp; Development of an ironic philosophy amongst those who survived the Buchenwald.

Summer camps, by virtue of the close comradeship and the frank sharing of views among the children, can do a great deal to broaden the racial attitudes of the next generation. A beginning has already been made in this direction, and various people who run camps seem ready to help the movement along. It also appears that many camps which exclude members of minority groups are ashamed of the policy. All persons interested in this development will be glad to know that camps which have admitted Negroes, for instance, have not only not suffered but have attracted a more stable and understanding following among members of the "dominant race."

The article presents the author's view on universal military training (UMT). According to the author, few of the people in the United States, today have confidence in the capacity of the U.N. to keep even such a precarious peace as they still have. But this does not mean that the U.N. must be discarded. It means that they must build on the foundations of the U. N. a structure that does not depend on a coalition of great powers for its existence-one that derives its power from the consent of the governed, from the people and not from sovereign states. The principal purpose of UMT is to do for their reserve and their National Guard what the draft would do for our standing army. UMT would provide a continual flow of trained young men into these forces. The only alternative to an adequate reserve and National Guard is a larger standing army and a permanent draft to supply the men.

The article presents a soldier's comments about his military service in the U.S. The soldier recounts that he was not happy when he got orders for the compulsory military service, as he was searching something different for his career. During long hours of his railway journey to the military camp, the soldier did not hear a single one of his companions express the least enthusiasm over being a soldier. At the camp, he found that there have been rather violent verbal outbreaks between the Northerners and Southerners. There seems very strong sectional feeling. According to the soldier, army life was just what he expected it to be, neither better nor worse and he was bored. But on the whole the adjustment among the boys was rapid.

The article discusses the efforts made by the National Board of Underwriters for fire prevention, fire protection and water supply in the army camps. Wooden buildings are protected from the top by the sheet proofing's. The underwriter's Laboratories do their fire test to check the strength and viability of the sheets for fire prevention. The camp is provided with an abundant water supply, with provisions for high-pressure service. As soon as the alarm of fire is turned in, the pumping station promptly increases the pressure in the water mains. The plans for water supply were worked out by the National Board engineers in Washington before the construction began."

The article discusses strategies on keeping workers happy in 1923. The integration of a swimming ground in the Cleveland, Ohio facility of R. K. Le Blond Machine Tool Company, the construction of vacation camps for workers and the plant restaurant are some of services embraced by corporations to make life more pleasant for their employees in 1923. The positive side-effects of providing facilities to reduce the stress of workers are presented.

The article discusses how the on-going Korean War has devastated the North and South Korean people. Six million of the 30 million Koreans are now homeless and there are 375,000 South Korean casualties and 125,000 more wounded. The Civil Assistance Command of the United Nations (UN), composed mostly of U.S. Army soldiers, has prevented starvation in South Korea by opening soup kitchens, emergency refugee camps and orphanages as well as shipping 100,000 tons of grain and 3,000 tons of clothing.

Focuses on the career of a young officer, a National guardsman as a second lieutenant. Experience of the young officer on the Mexican Border; Information on the expression of the officer to the military reaction and habit of mind; Statement that the officer felt no diminution in his respect for the superior who had so incorrectly and unfairly disciplined him; Discussion of his mental attitude as a lieutenant; Description of the temporary army in the U.S. who are essentially civilian in training and desires.

Comments on the global socio-political economic issues. Research on the varying fortunes of the British military operations during the war; Development of the reform Act in England which settles the problem of woman suffrage; Justification pertaining to the no conflict of interest between the Russian people and Allied nations; Estimation of the war profits for 1917; Call for eighteen year old boys for training in military camps according to the National Association for Universal Military Training in France.