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Focuses on the dangers to the existence of welfare capitalism in America. Reasons cited for the emergence of welfare capitalism in America; Impact of cold war on American domestic politics; Constituents of the crisis in American welfare economics.

Focuses on the rational management of ocean resources for the welfare of human beings. Types of sources supplied by oceans; Concerns over the misuse and pollution of ocean resources; Efforts to resolve the controversy among nations regarding the proper use of ocean resources.

In this article, the author discusses the administrative transitional issues and criticisms against trustees of charity institutions, specially hospitals, of the U.S. for their governing polices and actions against institutes' reform. He reports that boards of trustees of U.S. charity institutions have faced an increased barrage of criticism during late 1960s, not only for specific actions but also for their generally undemocratic procedures in selecting members, theft lack of sensitivity to community interests, and their loss of effectiveness as policy-making bodies of America's nongovernmental service agencies for health care, education and culture. Historically, the criteria for membership on boards of trustees were based on economic logic but with the reform of policies and objectivity of charity institutions, the role of trustees has been restructured too.

The article presents information on welfare imperialism in Vietnam. The Vietnamese history provides an instructive comparisons between the older empire of the French and the newer American variety. In South Vietnam one can find the future blueprint for American policies in the underdeveloped areas. For there, more than in any other place, naval, commercial and diplomatic ties to the past-so strong elsewhere-were missing. The United States began afresh in South Vietnam in 1954. The policy there was directed by men of liberal outlook who were committed to Vietnamese independence and who attempted to bring about the development of Vietnamese society guided by the concepts of economic and social development.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Reactions to the U.S. government's policy which deals with conscientious objectors; Commentary on an article about social policy; Response to an article about the attitude of the American press toward labor.

This article presents information on the social conditions of the U.S. Washington is going through a new fever of optimism, reminiscent of the high-spirited days when the New Deal was born. This time, instead of the NRA promising to end all ills, there is in preparation a new drive to end unemployment. The meetings last week of the National Conference on Economic Security were needlessly eclipsed by the impending schemes for creating employment. As the result of a series of victories for public ownership at the recent elections, the position of the electric light and power industry, in the inimitable words of the "New York Times," "is now regarded by some executives as having reached the darkest period of the depression."

Focuses on the demand for social security program for the dependent aged in the U.S. Difficulty of finding a job during the depressions; Escalation of the number of aged dependents; Failure of the government to cope with American problem of old-age security; Consideration of the immediate need of social protection for the destitute aged; Presentation of a constructive program by the old-age-pension experts of the President's Committee on Economic Security.

The United States stands today before a fork in the road of national economic policy. One signpost says: "Modified Free Enterprise." The other points toward "State Controls." The advocates of controls maintain that free enterprise leads inevitably to mass unemployment. Their opponents assert that state controls induce economic stagnation. There is little time left for decision: production and employment drop lower each month in state after state. The debate goes on in many places-in homes, college classrooms, union headquarters and business sanctums. It is intense in Congress and the responsible bureaus of government. Inflation had already lost its impetus. Most consumer goods were available in excess of demanded quantities, and the pressure on steel was visibly lessening.

Several letters to the editor in response to articles in previous issues including "Organizing a Worldwide Business," by Gilbert H. Clee and William M. Sachtjen in the November-December 1964 issue, "Breakthrough in Organization Development," by R. R. Blake, J. S. Mouton, L. B. Barnes, and L. E. Greiner in the November-December 1964 issue, and "Management of Voluntary Welfare Agencies," by Earle Lippincott and Elling Aannestad in the November-December 1964 issue are presented.

This article discusses how businesspeople can evaluate the management of voluntary welfare agencies, where they serve as contributors and board members. The authors examines questions regarding management standards and external factors and trends, including questions about relations between members and a board of directors, the needs of agencies, and interagency coordination. The article evaluates the effectiveness of the board and staff in management, determines the needs served by the agency and its programs for meeting these needs, and suggests methods of maintenance of financial safeguards and sound controls for fund raising. INSET: Dollar Dimensions.

This article argues that businessmen should not concern themselves with social responsibility. The article suggests that corporate welfare makes good sense if it makes good economic sense but if something does not make economic sense, sentiment or idealism should not be considered. The article explains that business managers should recognize what the U.S. government's functions are and allow the government to take care of the general welfare so that business can take care of the material aspects of welfare. Without the corrosive distractions and costly bureaucracies that serve the cause of welfare, politics, society, and putting up a pleasant front, management will be able to move ahead in whatever way that seems consistent with its money-making goals.

The article discusses the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935. The legislation provides compulsory social insurance for the elderly and the unemployed. The law also provides for U.S. federal assistance to the states in the form of grants-in-aid for the care of children, the blind, the physically handicapped, and improved public health. The Act proposes that the costs of old age insurance be furnished through payroll taxes. Unemployment insurance costs are to be absorbed by employers and grants-in-aid are to be paid for through general tax funds.

For English writers who stand at the start of their careers, the problems are not all atomic— some of them are economic, for industrial Britain has still not been able to adjust herself to a postwar world where, her rich reserves all drained away in fighting the Axis, her dependence on exports for sheer existence has been brutally uncovered. Again, the welfare state, her major achievement in civilized progress since 1945, has inevitably laid the emphasis on social security rather than on individual enterprise, on reconciliation rather than on interrogation and revolt.

Focuses on several economic systems used in various countries of the world. Features of the New Economic Policy (NEP), introduced by Soviet Premier Vladimir Lenin; Provisions of NEP for the state control of railroads, the mines, the new power stations and transmission lines; Economic development of the Soviet Union through NEP: Success of NEP in developing the nation from famine levels in a few short years; Types of economic systems stated by David Cushman Coyle; Statement of Philosopher Karl Marx that these economic systems cannot permanently exist side by side; Control of public utility, by the federal government; Goods and services dealt by government collectivisms; Difference between private collectivism and socialism; Failure of the New Deal program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in its functions of mechanical stabilizer and prime mover.

While the concept of the separation of the economic functions of the distribution of resources and the production of resources is particular to this solution, and represents a new element of discussion, other concepts necessary to its implementation are already basic to the thinking behind one or more of the other proposed solutions. An Economic Security Plan shares with the Passive Accepters the recognition that hurried, makeshift attempts to bring about change would cause a deterioration in the present situation; it shares with the Utopian the vision of a better socioeconomic system, viewed as a totality, and the conviction that its attainment is a possibility, it shares with the sub-Utopians' the desire to bring about only those changes which are necessary at the time they are necessary.

The article focuses on the impoverish condition of the coal miners in the Appalachian South. The coal miners are largely left to rot on surplus government food and the small doles of a half-hearted welfare state. The old grandfathers of its pupils fought for the right to be human in the bloody mine wars from 1912 to 1921. A frustrating interplay of such forces as obsolete agriculture, depleted timber resources, a high birth rate, rapid mechanization of coal mining, the declining demand for coal, short-sighted and selfish political-business leadership, and scarcity of industrial jobs have coalesced to create the chronic poverty of the Appalachians.

Focuses on political strategies adopted by Governor Ronald Reagan in presidential elections of the United States in 1971. Initiation of a national welfare program by Reagan; Objective of the welfare program; Aspects of reforms initiated by Reagan; Attempt of U.S. President Richard Nixon to keep Reagan off his back; Proposal of Reagan might eliminate most of the additional allowances for the expenses of working.

Focuses on the leadership of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore. Acceptance of the Communists as allies in the struggle against colonialism; Implementation of tax increases and cuts in the dearness allowance of government workers; Percentage of the gross national product spent by the country on defense; Claim of power of Lee Kuan Yew's People's Action Party that it found the treasury empty; Success of economic policy by Lee Kuan Yew; Report on Singapore spending only about one percent of gross national product on defense; Relations of Singapore with Japan and Australia; Admiration of United States by prime minister of Singapore; Efforts of Lee Kuan Yew to make his island of immigrants an island of skilled workers.

Discusses issues surrounding the development assistance provided by the United Nations to the U.S. Projects that manifest how the program begun in 1970 has been a success; Significance of the adoption of the Paris system inspired by the UN Safety Mission; Benefits obtained in the field of education because of the Traveling Seminar on Swedish Economic Policy; Key points of an aide-mémoire being circulated by a group of smaller countries.

Focuses on the political and economic development of the nations to the west of the Soviet Union. Reorganization of all parties and groups which fought against the Nazi invaders and which fought against the Nazi invaders and founded their present unity in that struggle for national liberation; Features which mark the internal economic policies of these countries; Factors responsible for the international tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S. Difference in economic policies of these countries; Attitude of the U.S. towards the whole course of current development within these countries.

This article presents information on the book "The Greening of America," by Charles A. Reich. This book tries to give an answer to what is for people the most important social question: how can they, citizens of the richest nation in the world, master the machine that has pretty well mastered them, and in so doing reclaim what they call their country--a country of the spirit--from the corporations and government bureaucracies that now usurp its name. According to Reich, the contrast between the professions and the activities of the Welfare State is so obvious and so nauseous that it has provoked revulsion on the part of the class that does the essential administrative tasks required by bureaucratized industry, commerce and government.

Welfare officials are trying to finesse New York City's 875,000 welfare poor by calling a major economy measure a major reform. More important, this "reform" is intended to deal a lethal blow to the most extensive organization of New York's poor in recent memory-the welfare rights movement. And it has an odds-on chance of succeeding. Since the reform is an economy measure, there is little doubt of overall public support. But the administration also wishes to be defined as sympathetic to the poor, not as drawing the purse strings more tightly about their necks.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including an article on "The Welfare Maze," in the February 8, 1971 issue, another review of the book "Waiting for Godot," by T.E. Kalem in the February 15, 1971 issue, and another article on "Speaking Out in Germany," in the February 15, 1971 issue.

Examines the economic nationalism of Il Duce Benito Mussolini as an effort to consolidate the nationalist movement begun by Giuseppe Mazzini and Count Camilo Cavour in Italy. Focus of the government to emphasize on self-sufficiency not only in the political sense but economic as well; Assessment of the chances of the economic nationalism of Mussolini to succeed according to book "Italy's International Economic Position," by Dr. C. E. McGuire; Necessity of the country to feed its large population where its agricultural area is insufficient to produce enough agricultural product to manufacture; Hindrances to economic progress is the fact the country has limited natural and mineral resources; Mediocrity of its manufacturing industry and an unfavorable balance of trade; Effect of rapid population growth and emigration to the economic situation of the country; Efforts of Mussolini to reform the country in order to obtain his goals have meet dismal failures; Assertion of Mussolini that the Italian manpower is the great resource of the nation. Suggestion by the author that the country must support her population by passing moderate protective policies at home and everywhere else and must encourage peace and the free movement of its people.

Focuses on the future of Britain's social services, which is going to be a big issue in the next elections. Achievements of the Welfare State by the Labour Government; Continuation of full employment; Raising the standard of life of millions of people to levels they had never known before; Cash allowance on weekly basis for all but the first child in every family; Establishing of a universal National Health Service, which offers entirely free medical and dental treatment of all kinds, plus free spectacles, artificial limbs, hearing aids, false teeth and the much-maligned wigs; Food subsidies permit essential foods to be sold below cost to make sure that basic rations are cheap enough for even the poorest; Details of educational and housing programs.

The Administration of U.S. President Herbert Hoover began on March 4, 1929, with his inspiring declaration that "the larger purpose of our economic thought should be to establish more firmly stability and security of business and employment, and thereby remove poverty still further from our borders." For eighteen months unemployment has been spreading poverty and acute suffering through industrial and agricultural areas alike. These eighteen-months have revealed the hypocrisy of the President's pledge of cooperation toward the attainment of economic security. A review of the Hoover Administration's unemployment policy demonstrates that the President has lacked either the understanding or the courage to press toward the goal of alleviating the distress of the unemployed and of reducing the number out of work.

Presents an update on the post-Russia Soviet Union. Points to remember regarding the economic and political conditions in the Soviet Union; Analysis of the statement that suggests that the Soviet Union should be viewed based on what Russia was once; Comparison between the state of mind when one travels from Germany to the Soviet Union, with the former country signifying fear and the latter hope; Arguments regarding the economic policy adopted by the Soviet Union for the path of development; Economic conditions of a normal Soviet citizen.

The article profiles U.S. Secretary of the Interior Franklin Knight Lane. According to the author, Lane has the imagination which enables him to visualize great projects, national economic problems, and welfare movements. The author adds that Lane has two ideas that are near to his heart, Americanization and his homestead plans for the benefit of demobilized World War I veterans.

Focuses on the explanation about the nomination of political candidate Calvin Coolidge in the Republican Convention. Information that feelings of his opponents in Congress as the declaration in favor of the World Court; Outline of the "scientific" economic policy; Effect on public opinion in the Middle and Far West; Success of the Republican politician in preventing the Republican business; Appropriation of Republicanism by the business men; Domination of the Republican party by a business man's bloc not the expression of an accidental or ephemeral fact; Emergence as the dominant element in the Republican party as a leavening innovation in American political practice.

Focuses on the economic crisis of the Soviet Union. Status and position of Communist Party in the Soviet Union; Argument pertaining to the problem of restoring the balance between the prices of Industrial and agricultural products; View that the introduction of a stable currency medium has made possible the establishment of an internal credit system; Enlargement of Russia's export program for farm products; Overview of conditions of peasants in the Soviet Union; Argument against the economic policies of the Soviet government.

Analyses the proposal by William H. Beveridge, director of the London School of Economics, for the establishment of a general intelligence division for economic problems in the British government. Description of the composition of the proposed bureau; Information about working areas of the proposed bureau; Role of statesmen and politicians in the official economic policy; Significance of Beveridge's proposals for promoting relationship between the science of economics the art of government, Role of the bureau in sorting economic problems.

Presents information on seven falsehoods about Soviet Union. Misrepresentation of Soviet Union's New Economic Policy; Falsehood of the accusations of religious prejudice against the Soviet government; Explanation for the accusation that the Social Revolutionaries are being subjected to outrageous persecution in Soviet; Comment on the lack of freedom of speech in Soviet Union; Criticism that the Soviet government deliberately ignored its own starving millions and sold needed foodstuffs for export; Falsehood about Soviet that it is today a wretched and melancholy place full of suffering; Comment on the rumor that the Soviet government is persecuting the intelligentsia and the bourgeoisie in general.

The article focuses on the failure of the British Labor party as a political force. In defiance of Socialist predictions made during the election of 1951, British Conservative Party government maintained both the welfare state and full employment. Simultaneously, they dismantled some of the forms of physical controls, of which from the electoral point of view the abolition of food rationing was the most important. Inequality between the social classes increased slightly but against the back of living in which they shared, the working classes were undisturbed.

Focuses on the story of the education of the Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie. Assurance that if only a business were in control, the U.S. could recapture the magic of its past greatness; Tradition that a business man cannot be elected a president; Sweep of populism over the country at the end of the century; Lack of political experience in Willkie; Recognition that there was a relation between economic security and the health of nations; Decision to risk his political future in order to support the war policies of the administration; Challenge to progressive and radical thought and action.

This article discusses the present situation of communism in the United States. The economic outlook is better than it was a few months ago but, politically, a recession is not necessarily over when the financial pundits say it is. Then there are the old standbys--communism, radicalism, the welfare state, and creeping socialism, all subsumed under the new tag "The Left Lane." But most voters have difficulty in tagging these "foreign" isms to such 100 percent Americans and zero per cent Socialists.