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Analyzes the addresses given by Henry Ward Beecher in Great Britain from the viewpoint of Persuasion. Method used by the orator to secure contact with his audience; Information on the term affectation of soul; Significance of Beecher's experience in Liverpool, England.

Delves into the geography of some countries. Discussion of the conditions of countries such as France, Great Britain, Germany and Belgium; Analysis of local causes of factors such as low prestige of geography in some countries; Importance of improving the conditions for geographic research.

Describes the debate in the House of Lords about Great Britain's naval policy. Admirals present at the debate; Comments on the speech of Lord Parmoor; Response of Lord Thompson to the proposed treaty.

Examines several influences which result in the culture of a people in relation to a comparison between the speech of educated Englishmen and educated U.S. citizens. Criticism on the U.S. speech; Question raised concerning the utilitarian standards of speech; Idea of mass control of attitudes in civilization.

Examines whether British legislator Charles Fox prepared his speeches. Evidences of the effortlessness with which Fox planned his speeches; Speeches by Fox in 1795 which were praised by newspapers and his audience; Fox's personal secretary's statement that Fox made no preparation of any kind for parliamentary debate; Fox's education and training; Fox's role in British oratory history.

Focuses on the conflict in the 19th century English Stage between the old school of training believing in classical repertory and the new school believing in realistic acting with reference to Madge Robertson Kendal. Techniques followed to become an actor in the old and new school of training; Career profile of Kendal; Name of plays in which she had acted and a critical analysis of those plays.

This article focuses on the American and British attitudes toward Soviet Union. The problem is also a challenging one theoretically, because of the more basic character of some of the deeper attitudes or values that may be involved, such as the attitudes toward economic justice, economic stability, racial equality, religion, freedom of speech, independence of small nations, and solidarity of the United Nations. Any systematic approach to these underlying, value-systems should throw some light upon basic elements of attitude-determination in both national and International affairs. The United Nations was a fighting alliance, with the Soviet Union carrying the heaviest burden of the actual fighting. Most of the information about the Soviet Union in the American newspapers, films, and radio programs was favorable. Books like Mission to Moscow and One World were being widely read.

The article features the appointment of the first member of the UNO Atomic Energy Commission. Sir Alexander Cadogan, permanent Under Secretary of the British Foreign Office and Britain's representative on the UNO Security Council, has been appointed to represent Britain on the Atomic Energy Commission. Sir James Chadwick, the discoverer of the neutron, has been appointed by the British Government as Cadogan's alternate. The American delegate to the Atomic Energy Commission has not yet been appointed.

The article offers information on the State Department's report on the control of atomic energy. The report centered on the necessity for the creation of a rational and workable initiative for the control of these weapons of mass destruction amidst the already initiated international armaments race. The declaration to this issue which was signed by the President of the United States and the Prime Ministers of Great Britain and Canada was underlined. With the already established destructive capability of these materials of war, the control of these materials is highly needed.

The article offers information on the new British Atomic Energy Project in Didcot, England. The project involves the establishment of Great Britain of a central atomic research plant in Thames Valley near the village of Harwell. The British enveloped this project in secrecy. On the other hand, Britain's leaders are contemplating that the country cannot afford this huge expenditure on the project, and that the money to be used in this project should be better spent to rehabilitate British industry and pay back debts.

The article presents a discussion on the parliamentary debate of the British Parliament on the British Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and the opinion of the press on the debate. It also cites the case of the Atomic Scientists' Association in the matter of the security provisions presented by Raymond Blackburn and a proposed Advisory Committee. It cites the necessity of international control of the production and use of atomic energy. The bill empowers the Minister to bring all atomic energy work under governmental control or surveillance.

The article presents the results of a survey into the socio-economic aspects of childbearing in Great Britain. The survey was conducted by the Health Visitors of Maternity and Child Welfare Authorities in England, Wales and Scotland. The mothers of all babies born during a single week were visited, and interviews were done with more than 90% of them. In 1946, when this inquiry was undertaken, the conditions of childbearing were still affected by wartime measures such as schemes for evacuating expectant mothers, the direction of labour, and by acute deficiencies in housing, maternity beds and medical personnel, which were also attributable to the war. Institutional confinements are most frequent among wives of professional and salaried workers and least frequent among wives of agricultural workers. Indication of the shortage of hospital beds is shown by the fact that many mothers in each occupational group are discharged from hospital before the fourteenth day after delivery. In all occupational groups considerably more is spent on baby clothes and equipment than on medical and institutional fees, and it is clear that provision of free medical care will not greatly relieve the cost of childbearing.

The article reports on the vital contribution of Canadian scientists to the wartime development of atomic energy. It discusses the possibility of new and strong powerful military explosive through the findings that U235 atoms undergo fission and this is where Canada comes in since Canada is a major producer of uranium that contains U235. It offers an overview of the joint United Kingdom and Canadian atomic energy research project and the establishment of a laboratory under the administration of the National Research Council of Canada headed by H. H. Halban.

Critiques the speech style of Benjamin Disraeli, which claims to reflect the political, ethnological, and artistic predisposition of authors. Analysis of the characteristics of the language usage; Determination of the factors that led to the popularity of Disraeli in the 19th century British politics; Childhood education of Disraeli; Overview of the works produced by Disraeli.

Focuses on social forces behind the development of Restoration comedy in Great Britain in the 17th century and compares it with modern comedy. Impact of civil war on Restoration comedy; Influence of renaissance individualism on Restoration comedy; Contribution of British aristocracy towards the development of Restoration comedy; Characterization of women in Restoration comedy.

The article focuses on the global need to eradicate the use of atomic energy and atomic methods of destruction to achieve peace. A three nation agreed declaration on atomic energy which is comprised of the U.S., Great Britain and Canada was issued on November 16, 1945 and called for the establishment of a Commission which must be under the United Nations and is required to make certain proposals. Its list of proposals include holding out to all nations the exchange of primary scientific data aimed to achieve peace, control of the use of atomic energy and to check its use which is for attaining peace. The General Assembly created the Commission which had its first meeting on June 14, 1946.

The article presents an outlook of the summer conferences in Great Britain. The conferences of other professional bodies like the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Sanitary Institute have dealt in large measure with planning problems. It is believed that the most impressive summer meeting would be that of the British Association attracting some 3,500 members. This conference would deal with purely scientific problems shared the programme with papers ranging over the whole field of planning. It is cited that the association has large and wide interests that it is difficult to hold a conference of the duration of one week except by working in defined sections.

Analyzes the status of radio broadcasting in Great Britain. Establishment of a public non-profit corporation called the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC); Comparison of BBC programming with those of U.S. broadcasting companies'; Difference between the BBC and systems of government-run radio.

This article provides information about significant recommendations made by the British Royal Commission on Population. To help families with children the Commission made three specific proposals for immediate introduction. They were, increase family allowances, exempt family allowances from income tax and increase income-tax allowances for dependent children where the earned income exceeds £600 a year. As per the Commission the measures introduced or improved during the war to raise the relative economic position of families with children might had contributed to cause the large increase that has occurred in the number of births. They enumerate the school milk and meals schemes and the subsidies designed to keep basic requirements economical. When there are fewer children than three, the effect of food subsidies is greater than that of family allowances, and when they are more than three, it is less except where tax has to be paid. The modification of income tax, though having its most marked influence in typical working class families, also influenced those with higher incomes.

The article analyses the activities of the British trade unions on behalf of emigration between 1850 and 1890 and the effects of those activities. The first section of the article is concerned with the general economic ideas of the unions about emigration and the reasons for the emigration policy. In the second section the difficulties the unions faced when they attempted to implement emigration in times of depression and unrest as a "safety valve" has been discussed. It also describes the permanent emigration rules of various unions and the effects of their operation. The emigration policy of trade unions in the mining, textile and iron and steel industries are treated in more detail than that of other Unions for two reasons. These industries were the very bone and sinew of the British industrial supremacy during the last half of the nineteenth century. It was in these industries that the threat of the danger of foreign competition was most often used by employers, and that trade unions considered most seriously the repercussions upon home industry of the emigration of skilled workmen.