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Irony reigned in the Georgia House of Representatives on January 10, 1966 when Representative-elect Julian Bond took the witness stand in a special hearing to determine if he should be seated. The challenge to Bond's seating was led by Republican Jones Lane. Beneath the surface politeness the hearing moved on to a predictable conclusion. When the vote came, only twelve Representatives voted to seat Julian Bond, all of them were from Atlanta area and live were Negroes Appeals to seat Bond were made to the House.

To the student of revolution, and of social movements Georgia is a revelation. Soon after the power of the Czar collapsed, the Mensheviks set up a government in Georgia. In its early age the troops of the Imperial German Kaiser were its foster father; in its old age it was watched over by well-meaning British Tommies acting on behalf of Winston Churchill and George Nathaniel Curzon, who have always evinced a peculiar interest in Baku and its oil-fields and in the great Baku-Batum pipe line, which cuts through the heart of the Georgian republic. Revolutionary measures which were the first acts of the Bolsheviks in the Smolny arid Kremlin are only now being ventured in Georgia.

This article presents information related to social, economic and political issues. The Georgia Legislature has been guilty of a most extraordinary performance. The new State constitution declares "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and resident in the State, citizens of the State," and "prohibits the passage of any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or of this State "—all of which is confirmed and enforced by the fourteenth constitutional amendment. The Canadians have been making an effort to reduce the salary of the Governor-General, who gets 10,000 pounds a year, or twice as much as the President; but the Colonial Office has vetoed the bill, on the ground that the right sort of man for the place could not be got for less money, and that any reduction of the salary would reduce Canada to the position of "third-class colony."

This article presents information on recent political developments in the U.S. The recent state election in Georgia is the last of the preliminary contests which precede the U.S. Presidential election. Pennsylvania is having great trouble now with its new ballot law and loud complaints are heard concerning the size and clumsiness of the ballots which must be provided. All persons disposed to charge the Australian system with these annoyances should bear in mind that Pennsylvania's law was repudiated by ballot-reform advocates at the time of its adoption.

This article presents information about various articles published in this issue. Before accepting Malcolm Purcell's article on the political catastrophe that impends in Georgia, the journal checked his analysis and conclusions with several experienced Southern journalists and politicians. Reports reaching from Tokyo of the international conference of scientists held there in early June on the effects of atomic radiation underscore the importance of article in this issue. Sam A. Jaffe's article discusses about the Alliance Party's victory of the first national elections ever held in the Federation of Malaya.

This article discusses current political, socio-economic issues of the world with specific reference to the United States. While discussing several issues, the article focuses on the Force Bill, which is now before the U.S. Senate, and controversies reeling around it. The Bill will get a strong opposition in two of the strongest Republican States namely, Minnesota and Nebraska. These states refuse to say a word in favor of the Force Bill. The Senator of Nebraska has already announced his opposition to the scheme and the course of Thursday's Convention at Lincoln shows that the Republicans of Nebraska wish both of their Senators to vote against the bill. The article also discusses about the present political developments in Georgia.

The article reports on recent political developments in the U.S. The recent action of the Georgia Legislature, in rejecting a proposition to endorse the Blair bill, must be received with great satisfaction by U.S. President Benjamin Harrison, because it calls the attention of the whole country to the emphatic manner in which this representative Southern State has vindicated the position which he took, five years ago, when this question was before the U.S. Senate. It appears that Postmaster-General John Wanamaker heard from somebody that the Western Union Telegraph Co. sent messages for certain large corporations at the rate of one mill per word, and, without making further investigation, he immediately fixed that rate for all Government business passing over the wires.

The article focuses on Floyd Hunter's study of decisions and decision-makers in Atlanta, Georgia. The sociologist determined that a relatively small group of businessmen had a great deal of power at their disposal, and that they used it to run the city. The findings of Hunter are published in his book "Community Power Structure: A Study of Decision Makers."

Focuses on the progressivism-oriented political efforts and works of Ellis Arnall, Governor of Georgia, which has won him national acclaim. Information about the role Arnall has played to extend the franchise than any other American since women were given the vote; Amendment to the Georgia Constitution lowering the voting age to 18 which was sponsored by the Governor; Accomplished the repeal of the Georgia poll tax, a tax on voting which has been a deterrent to democracy in Georgia since the Revolution; Support given by the Southern Conference for the abolition of the poll tax by federal action; Information about a meeting of a Committee of Editors and Writers of the South on the subject of limitations to the franchise in the South.

In Georgia the name of Talmadge is synonymous with politics, the name of George is synonymous with the United States Senate. It became definite that these two names will be merged in another of the tempestuous political campaigns for which this state is famous when Senator Walter F. George recently announced that he plans to stand for reelection in 1956. Former Governor Herman Talmadge, though unannounced, is considered a certain candidate for this post. Assuming the race to be only between George and Talmadge, it is a paradox that whichever is the winner in this solidly Democratic state, the Republicans in the Senate will profit.

Georgia signed a bargain years ago with ignorance and fear and the "poor white," and today they are paying off. Herman Talmadge and the Crackers have moved into the Capitol. Tear bombs, hoodlums, hate, tobacco-spitting, bad grammar, and obscene race jokes are chumming cozily together now under the old Georgia dome. The Crackers are the whites of the state who feel inferior. Herman Talmadge has jeopardized law and order in Georgia by a coup d'ètat so violent, so brazen, that it has shocked the entire state. The Cracker party is not for change. It wants to hold things just as they are, or were four years ago, because it believes that only in this way can it get back its power.

Focuses on Georgia's political issues with reference to the trial of Leo Frank, president of the Atlanta chapter of B'nai B'rith. Treatment of Frank by the governor of Georgia to uphold a civilization better than Georgia has yet attained; Evidence of Georgia's political development in Frank's case; Opinion that the governor who acted, and the opinion which supported him, were not enough to save Georgia from its degradation.

Reports on the spoils system in nine counties in northern Georgia. Dominance of the Republican Party; Appointment of Georgians in patronage positions open in the state; Selection of representatives for the national primary.

The article focuses on the use of segregation for political benefits in Georgia. The author of the article gives racial problem a political perspective. The article also provides important information regarding career of attorney general of Georgia, Eugene Cook. Members of the Georgia State Board of Education, which supervises all public elementary and secondary schools, are usually political appointees of the Governor. Recently these members passed a rule that any teacher of racially mixed classes would be barred for life from teaching in Georgia. Shortly thereafter, at the urging of Cook, they announced the same penalty for any teacher who joined the National Association for Advancement of Colored People.

Focuses on the campaigns launched by Senator Walter George and former Governor Herman Talmadge, although none is officially a declared candidate for the Senate seat, as of November 1955. Explanation for Georgia being a conservative state; Evidence of the political sagacity of Talmadge; Balance of political power in the state.