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Explains that the threat of China-led communism to Thailand consists of Chinese intentions to upgrade Route 46 from Muong Sai to Pak Beng in Laos, Communist Chinese propaganda, and China's supposed development, support, and encouragement of an insurgency in Thailand. Hearings before a subcommittee of the United States Foreign Relations Committee; Dialogue between Senator Fulbright and Ambassador Leonard Unger.

Focuses on the reaction of the U.S. Department of Defense regarding the Vietnam War. Role played by the Pentagon office during the Vietnam War; Report on military troubles faced by the U.S. during the Vietnam war; Report the myths armies are sustained in peacetime and bring unquestioned congressional appropriations were destroyed in Vietnam; Information on the loss of lives of soldiers in plains and jungles during Vietnam war; Efforts of military establishment, to arrest traditional inter-service rivalries, being very less; Eruption of verbal guerrilla warfare between the Marines and the Army's 1st Cavalry Division; Arrival of the 5th Special Forces in Vietnam on special CIA assignment in 1961.

Questions the report of U.S. General William C. Westmoreland on the progress of the war in Vietnam in 1967. Suggestion that Westmoreland's 1967 message was unchanged since the war started in 1961; Intelligence estimate on the number of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces; Assertion that the political structure of the Viet Cong remain untouched by U.S. war efforts; Analysis of the communist military and political tactics in South Vietnam; Statement that the communists are using territories of Cambodia for supply, training and planning base.

Presents information on the documents related to the Operation Zulu, a case study of decision-making in the initiation of covert action in foreign policy of the U.S. Opinion that the success of the U.S. operations in Cuba suggests that this government would now be capable of taking the initiative elsewhere; Preparation for a sizeable counter-insurgency capability in the Special Forces of the U.S. Army; Need for the use of training techniques in counter-guerrilla methods and also train the cadres for guerrilla action against communist governments; Commitment of the U.S. to overthrow the government of the Republic of South Africa;.

The article reports on the conflict between pro-Communist and anti-Communist forces in Guatemala. The Communist-line government has criticized the aggression and invasion of its neighbors, including the U.S. Armed insurgents called the Army of Liberation has called on Guatemalans to fight the government and its Communist allies. The anti-Communist rebels is being led by Carlos Castillo Armas, a former colonel in the Guatemalan army.

The Alliance for Progress in Latin America, born a little more than four years ago, has undergone an ugly transformation and has entered a "hard' stage peopled by characters out of the Pentagon, CIA and the Marine Corps. Passwords now are military aid, counter-insurgency, civic action and armed intervention. The Brazilian coup and the occupation of Santo Domingo are the two better known, but by no means the only incidents of this hard stage. In 1960, Cuba demonstrated only too clearly that pressures for social and economic reform in Latin America were formidable. The defensive response of many frightened American nations was the Alliance for Progress.

The article focuses on the uprising in the southern part of the U.S. which is aimed at influencing the outcome of presidential election to be held in November 1948. This political conflict also aims to plot a rebellion, which will have a carefully laid scheme for taking over the whole Democratic party in the country. The rebellion's main objective is to realign the country's political parties, while the defeat of presidential candidate Harry S. Truman follows.

Comments on several political issues. Increase in the unrest in Germany; Weakness of the Michaelis government; Views on the descent of the German forces upon Oesel Island; Control of imports and exports in the U.S.; Outcome of the municipal campaign in New York City; Dependence of the national efficiency on businesses; Opinion of the author about volunteering as a method of recruiting armies.

In this article, the author focuses on various myths related to American higher education and suggesting major functions of higher educations. He describes that with the threatened feeling due to the seriousness of purpose shown by students during 1967 spring's campus rebellions the educator's myth of the moment informs both the practicality and the transcendent aspect of a liberal or humanistic education. The assumption behind this view is that four years of exposure to a balanced curriculum will produce young men and women who are objective, rational, will be blessed with a sense of their own autonomy. The function of higher education, thus suggested, is to turn out those industrial cadres, rocket engineers, researchers, planners, personnel managers and development experts needed by the economy.

This article sheds light on the political situation in the U.S. as well as Vietnam during the Vietnam War. There is a political breakthrough in the U.S., and the corresponding changes in Vietnam. The true situation in Vietnam is as yet unassessable, but some indications are already evident. The Saigon government has heretofore exerted only precarious control in some provincial areas, but, except for spasmodic Vietcong terrorism, has kept a fairly firm hold on the cities and provincial capitals. Now the government is secure in neither sector. The political disarray of the past two weeks is therefore the more remarkable. Sen. Edward Kennedy is back from Saigon with a tale of corruption that shocks even a young man brought up to face the political realities of Boston.

Recapture of Brunete, Spain by the rebels has temporarily dashed the Loyalists' high hopes of lifting the siege of Madrid. Although it is too soon to say whether the rebel gains have been worth the fearful price that has been paid for them, any loss of ground is bound to be disappointing after the early promise of the government's offensive. The strengthened Loyalist armies have been faced by new contingents of Moors and Italians and have had to contend with large fleets of the most modern aircraft. While England and France have debated the advisability of sending supplies, the fascist countries have poured in millions of dollars' worth of munitions, for what they believed would be the final drive on Madrid.

The equating of the fears of the United States with the interests of the United Nations is the predominant fact which emerges. On whether or not this equation is accepted by the member states of the U. N. depends the future of that body. The verbal attacks upon the U. N., long current, were brought to a climax this fall with federal grand-jury hearings, followed by hearings before the McCarran Subcommittee on Internal Security. To these hearings Americans on the U. N. staff were summoned, as were officials of the State Department.

The article presents information about the aid asked by Japan for dealing with Guerrilla warfare and the Hepburn Act of 1906. Frustrated in all efforts to deal with the guerrillas, the Japanese turned their attention to the foreign powers. But here they encountered much more stubborn resistance than would have seemed possible a few months ago. The landing of Japanese marines at Amoy was met by the landing of equally large detachments of British, French, and American bluejackets. Japanese demands on Tientsin and Shanghai were firmly rejected, and the International Settlement at Shanghai was put under temporary martial law. The Hepburn Act in 1906 was an attempt to break up the coal-railroad combination. The original bill forbade a "common carrier" to convey commodities produced by a company owned by the carrier. In that form it would have applied to pipe lines as well as railroads.

It has been the Spanish government's thesis all along that dictator Francisco Franco's regime will collapse at the rear no matter what takes place at the front. The incessant riots and rebellions, the increasing numbers of prisoners and deserters and above all the stream of talkative renegades trickling into France have provided archives of evidence to support this belief. Franco's problem has been not only to keep the Spaniards from declaring war on the German and Italian soldiery, to say nothing of the Moors, but also to keep the Falangists, the Requetes, the military and the plain civilians from flying at one another's throats. The rebel movement has been marked by failures from the start.

The article focuses on the implications of students' revolt against the administration of French government under Charles de Gaulle. It states that rebellion of students and France's workers has caused France Prime Minister Georges Pompidou to declare that the rebels intend to destroy the nation and the foundations of free society. It indicates that the revolt has turned out to be one of the most humiliating moments and greatest challenge of de Gaulle's career.

The article discusses whether revolution is a way of social salvation or not. It is said that revolution was a great success for German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and Russian Revolution leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin but not for others. German revolution was a good thing for those who got into the Nazi Party in time, but for those who supported the Italian labor uprisings in 1920-1921, revolution was a bad thing.

The article presents news briefs from across the world as of October 7, 1875. Cash payments to the depositors have been resumed at the Bank of California that was suspended on August 26, 1875. The bank has enough cash to meet the demands of its depositors. The Pope Pius IX gave a shocking account of the state of Christendom while addressing a group of French pilgrims who paid their respect to him in Rome, Italy. The insurgency in Herzegovina is directed against Muslim landlords and tax collectors.

The article looks at U.S. and global politics, as of December 1929. It discusses civil conflict in China, noting rebellions underway against the government headed by Chiang Kai-shek and saying the country remains unstable and that unification in the near term is unlikely. It looks at the aftermath of the U.S. government's sending of a message to the Soviet Union and Chinese governments calling on them to abide by the Kellogg-Briand peace agreement, noting the strongly negative Soviet response. It discusses the case of U.S. Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, whom the Senate is refusing to seat over his allegedly corrupt campaign finance practices.

Discusses the impact of the revolution to the political stability of Mexico. Attempted siege of major cities in Mexico by rebel troops; Executions of captured rebel conspirators and accomplices; Plan of the rebels to capture important government officials including President Plutarco Calles and his cabinet; Initial reverses of the rebels disheartened sympathetic militarists; Characteristics of the regime shows continued control of militarist presidents in the country where civil rights are curtailed; Replacement of the older feudal armies with the more national and disciplined army; Demands for water, school, and lands by rebels; Emergence of organized peasant movement due to the newer independence achieved; Division between the labor and peasant movements.

Reports on the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (FAR), an insurgent guerrilla movement in Guatemala. Conversation of the author with Camilo Sanchez, a young guerrilla leader; Information on political killings by insurgents; Appraisal of the appointment of Carlos Arana Osorio as the national president of FAR; Assessment of policies of Arana; Appraisal of the role of the U.S. in the crisis in Guatemala; Evolution of FAR into a fractured group of urban guerrillas to whom terrorism has largely become an end in itself.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics published in previous issues. '"Revolution and Counter Revolution--But Not Necessarily About Columbia," published in the June 01 issue; Evaluation of the student movement at Columbia; Methods suggested to deal with rebels; Account of historical revolutions; Information that Vice President Hubert Humphrey at one time or another called for both a Great Society for Asia and a New Deal for Asia; Authenticity of the comment.

Proposes insurgency as a measure for the U.S. government to win the war in Vietnam. Criticism of the U.S. for allowing its adversary a decisive advantage; Concept of counterinsurgency; Advantages of an insurgent over a conventional force; Outside help needed by an insurgent movement bent on rescuing South Vietnam from communist rule; Advantages of an insurgent role.

Presents an interview with former Cambodian chief of state Norodom Sihanouk about his dangerous trip into the so-called "liberated areas" of Cambodia in order to reinforce his alliance with the insurgents fighting against the Pnompenh regime headed by Lon Nol. Reason for choosing after his ouster to continue fighting rather than retire to France; Sihanouk's admission that the North Vietnamese and Vietcong use Cambodia as a route to transport equipment down to South Vietnam; Transfer of his responsibilities for the management of the government to the resistance forces.

Presents information on the intervention of the U.S. in internal security problems of the Philippines and Thailand. Recognition of the fact that local insurgencies are assuming serious proportions in the Philippines and Thailand; Role of the Agency for International Development (AID) in curbing insurgencies in the two countries; Placement of a small team of former officials of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support in Thailand by AID to assess the situation and provide advice both to the American embassy in Bangkok and to Thai authorities; Commitment of the U.S. to assist the Philippines and Thailand in their internal security programs.

The article focuses on the violent uprisings in Hungary for national independence. It states that when Party Secretary Erno Gero announced the lack of relaxation for Communist control, the peace demonstration by the Hungarian students became incensed. It also mentions that the Communist Party of Hungary had disintegrated, the country's army was defected, and the Revolution has been restricted between Russians and Hungarians.

This article discusses the book "My Mission to Spain," by Claude G. Bowers. Bowers a passionate veteran liberal and historian, as well as one of the leading democratic politicians has done a service, in revealing the inner agonies leading to the tragic demise of the short-lived constitutional Spanish republic. His book fills in a corner of this epoch by presenting the views of a completely dedicated democrat who saw most clearly that the Spanish civil war was merely the rehearsal for World War II.

Comments on several political issues. Threat of a new war against Hungary; Complaints of the Allies in Paris against the Hungary; Atrocities by the Japanese reported by the Presbyterian Church in America; Investigation of the disputes between the French and Italian soldiers by an international commission of inquiry in Fiume; Domestic problems faced by Italy; Description of the industrial situation in England; Insurgency in the U.S. Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives.

The article focuses on the issue of the best way of dealing with popular discontent and subversion which divides the nations of South America. Brazil has made has made clear since its cooperation in Organization of American States (OAS) force in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic that it believes there should be a permanent Inter-American Peace Force. There are many arguments against such a force. Then again, the military approach always engenders an oversimplified remedy for complex social and economic issues and a disdain of popular feeling.

The article focuses on some recent issues in the United States. Writer Eric Hobsbawm's article on guerrilla warfare should be required reading at the White House and at the Pentagon. In the Pentagon population especially there are a certain number of military men and civilian advisers who are not hidebound by profession. At some juncture, as the Vietnamese horror drags on, and American casualties mount with no end in sight, misgivings might be reinforced by something Hobsbawm said. A substantial section of the journalistic trade continues to improvise on the theme that the United States stands in mortal danger of being subverted by domestic Communists. Apparently there is no protection, however diligently the writers seek out the hidden foe and rally alarmed citizens to the country's defense.

Mississippi has the largest proportion of Afro-Americans of any state in the Union, and since the Civil War it has always been on the lowest rung of the national economic ladder. Mississippi politics is accordingly a good index to Southern political patterns. Most of the Southern members are personally opposed to civil rights legislation, in one degree or another. A few are rabid racists; most would be middle of the road if they could. But as white racists organized in the South under the impetus of the 1954 school-desegregation decision, it became politically impossible for any Southern member of the Congress to be identified as a moderate.

The article discusses the rebellion of General Douglas MacArthur of the U.S. army during the Korean War. The matter of rebellion of Douglas MacArthur is now before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The true story may never be fully revealed. Yet even if its outlines become clear it will show that MacArthur risked the lives of countless Americans without clear objectives, and this nation has reason to be eternally grateful to a modest and patient man, Omar Bradley. Those who have followed it closely within the Pentagon and White House sum up the story in this way: MacArthur, with characteristic contempt for judgments other than his own, was prevented from extending the war to a world war by General Bradley, in his capacity as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Focuses on the enactment of the most comprehensive, and in some respects the most severe, anti-subversion law by the Maryland legislature. Discussion on the status of free state enjoyed by Maryland in the past; Details about the new law entitled "Sedition and Subversive Activities"; Criticism of the law by lawyers; Information on the enactment of sedition laws in various U.S. states; Definition of a subversive organization according to the new Maryland law.

Six miles below Lynchburg, a gray stone barn that crowns a hill near the river is pointed out to the traveller as the place where, in the summer of 1864, Hunter's men first showed themselves. The escape of the Lynchburgers at that time was a narrow one, but until after commander-in-chief Robert Lee's surrender the town had never been molested nor occupied by the Union army and except that a Confederate storehouse was then destroyed by Civil War General Philip Henry Sheridan's soldiers, the actual ravages of war have never visited the citizens. But the more indirect evils, which the rebellion brought upon all the South, the city has evidently suffered.

Presents the traumatic experience of the author in the U.S. Existence of insurgency in the U.S. to revolt American communism; Attitude of people towards communism; Description about the jail experience of the author in the U.S.; Comments of prostitutes on the jail; Interrogation of the author by police regarding his identity; Concentration of crowd in jail with almost no space to sit comfortably; Interaction of the author with communists in the jail; Bail granted to the author and his colleagues after thorough investigation.

Reports on causes and probable effects of expanded political role played by the U.S. Armed Forces as of December 1972. Causes of anxiety among the persons concerned following the expansion in the political role of the Armed Forces; Effect of changes in the speed, range and size of modern weapons on the budget of the country; Involvement of the Armed Forces in domestic insurgency situations.

This article presents information on the war in Ethiopia. The civil war in Ethiopia goes largely unreported. The regular forces of the insurgency in Ethiopia fluctuate between 10,000 and 30,000 men, and by now are in virtual control of the countryside in an area of northern Ethiopia that includes all of the empire's seacoast. Moreover, the guerrillas are organized into a uniformed, disciplined "Liberation Army," the military arm of a disciplined, Chinese-supported, "Liberation Front." The soldiers of the Front are armed with modern Kalatchnikov automatic assault rifles, Chinese rockets and mortars.

This article reports on political and social issues affecting the U.S. as well as other countries. The adoption by the male voters of California of a Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote is easily the most momentous decision given in the history of the U.S. The new Lord Mayor of London, Sir Thomas Crosby is entitled to write M.D. after his name. He is said to be the first physician ever chosen as Lord Mayor. The task of suppressing the rebellion in the Yang-tse provinces has been entrusted to Yuan Shih Kai, the creator of China's modern army. The former Viceroy of Shan-tung is thus experimenting the usual treatment which China meets out to her strong men.

Presents information on an incident wherein four bombs went off outside the denazification court in Stuttgart, Germany. View that the explosions weren't much in themselves, but they were the first violent signs of dirty work in the U.S. zone and they were enough to startle people out of their complacency; Information that a 23-year-old youth named Siegfried Kabus was behind the attack; Description of the author's meeting with Kabus in Ludwigsburg Prison.

In May 1958, the ultras of Algiers, Algeria, with the full support of the Army, overthrew the Fourth Republic and installed French General Charles de Gaulle as head of the Government. Twenty months later on Sunday, January 24, 1960, the same ultras rebelled against de Gaulle. The President of the Fifth Republic expected the Army to crush the rebellion, and the Army refused to do anything. Today the insurgents occupy a part of central Algiers; the Army encircles this part of Algiers, and relations remain courteous and cordial between the men on the two sides of die barricades erected that Sunday.

A Spanish government representative who attended King George VI's coronation outlined to foreign minister Eden Valencia's plan for ending the civil war. A truce was to be declared. All foreign troops and volunteers serving on both sides would then be immediately withdrawn from Spain. During the truce no battle lines would be shifted. Non-Spaniards having been eliminated, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union were to devise a scheme, which the Spanish government pledged itself in advance to accept, whereby the will of the Spanish nation regarding its political and social future might be authoritatively ascertained. Since the departure of outsiders is the only key to an early peace in Spain, the official data on the government's International Brigade are of interest.

The article discusses several issues related to politics. The news from the Philippines which tells of the surrender of Iloilo to the insurgents, and of a new and strong cabinet formed by political leader Emilio Aguinaldo, is supplemented by news from the United States that U.S. President William McKinley is thinking of sending a commission to the Philippines to study the conditions there, and to make recommendations as to the policy to be pursued in dealing with the islands. No illusion should be entertained about the antecedents and probable aims of the men of mixed blood who are now at the head of the so-called Philippine republic. Their patriotism has been, in the past, of too glaringly a mercenary character to make it easy to believe it now entirely disinterested.

The present the author's views on the impact of an agent Edgar Hoover's activity on the reputation of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It states that there are doubts within the bureau and within the Administration about the FBI's ability to serve as an effective agency against subversion. It states that the administration was irritated by Hoover's attempts to withhold information from the Internal Security Division of the Justice Department. It highlights his personal pride, has seriously affected the efficient operation of American intelligence.

The article focuses on the civil war in Spain. In May the rebels moved on Valencia region. They were certain that this would mean the end of the war. The artillery fire of rebels was the heaviest of the war. Their airplanes bombed the government lines mercilessly. Loyalist's chief weapons were rifles, machine guns, improved discipline and organization. Rebels lost no fewer than 20,000 men in this vain attempt to break the republican lines. The offensive on the Ebro, which started on July 25, was conceived, and for two months meticulously and secretly prepared, as a diversion to relieve the pressure on the Castellon-Sagunto front.

The article presents information on major developments in the world. Francisco Franco, Spanish rebel leader, has emphatically rejected the British plan for withdrawal of Italian volunteers from Spain. The plan was rejected because the rebels are again desperately in need of Italian assistance. The elaborate reception given to Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Hungarian general and regent, represents an attempt to entice Hungary to support the German demands in Czechoslovakia, militarily and economically.

Focuses on the rising morale of the Loyalist people in Spain and their belief that they can win the war against the insurgents supported by the fascist forces. Observation that Barcelona is emerging as the physical and spiritual counterpart of Madrid, capital of Spain; Increase in the strength of the loyalist army and air force; Superiority of the loyalists both in terms of men and reserved manpower; Crippling of the insurgents; Advantage to the insurgents in terms of war materials; Collection of adequate ammunitions by the Loyalists; Manufacturing of guns and hand grenades by the loyalists; Views that the arms embargo imposed by Great Britain, France and the U.S. can crucify the Spaniards; Opinion that the situation in Spain being ideal for the establishment of democracy.

The article focuses on political conditions of the U.S. and around the world, as of September 30, 1875. Judge Cyrus L. Pershing, the Democratic candidate for the Governorship in Pennsylvania, has written a very adroit letter of acceptance. He gets over his unfortunate career as a Copperhead during the war by pronouncing all the issues with the South settled, and then gives his whole mind to the consideration of the currency. The news from Europe is mainly made up of rumors and counter-rumors from Herzegovina. As a general rule, the reports of insurgent successes have turned out false, while those of Turkish successes have been confirmed.