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Byline: Tom Sancton ILLUSTRATION BY MATT CHASE Fighting for the SOUL OF FRANCE Pitched battles-political, cultural, and racial-are roiling the heart of la République Napoleon Bonaparte is arguably the most [...]

Presents a brief account of the race riot in Detroit, Michigan. Unrest between whites and blacks in the city; Atrocities against African Americans by Detroit's mostly Southern police force; Photographs of African Americans lying dead and wounded on the streets; Allegations against Parker Sage and Garland Alderman, officials of the National Workers' League for inciting the riot; Details of anti-white campaigns led by Ethiopian Pacific League; Information on the book "Brothers Under the Skin," by Carey McWilliams on race relations; Challenges for U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Focuses on the African American press and reactions of the whites on publications of the press in the U.S. Information on the press that has been consistently growing too big and tough for the focus of their prejudiced visions; Accusation of the whites that the African American press has been creating something to which it has only given expression: the American Negro's drive for the freedoms, rights, privileges, and human happiness for which the war itself is being fought; Demand of the African Americans regarding the real news of African Americans in the war and the war's effect upon race issues; Statement that in a great majority of cases is given the race slant right at the source; The race press has grown up to fill a need as important to the African American as the home-town paper to any white man; Discussion of the African American writers, who over and over, in all possible variations, with a variety of tones and shadings, with none of the ambiguous and deceitful language by which hard facts are softened in the white press, tell the African American exactly what the white man doing for him and to him; Information on critics of the race press who failed to mention the better-conduct campaigns; Description of the fundamental weakness of the African American press.

Focuses on social conditions of the Negro race in the U.S. Growth of the Negro race into a militant political attitude; Immigration of the several people from the race towards Northern part of the U.S.; Emergence of a press community which was pro-African American; Development in political aggressiveness of African-Americans during the World War II; Speech of president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters A. Philip Randolph in the March-on-Washington Movement; Decision of African-Americans to call off the Fair Employment Practice Committee hearing into the flagrant discrimination against black firemen on American railroads.

Discusses a rumor that was spread in Memphis, Tennessee, of an African American uprising at Jackson, a smaller city eighty-five miles northeast. Origin of stories of an uprising in a group of Americans who had passed the building of a well known African American fraternal organization; Preparations for first blackout test in Memphis; Statement by Percy Wyly, special agent in charge of the local Federal Bureau of Investigation office, on no racial trouble in Memphis.

Focuses on the present crisis in the industrial productivity in the U.S., forecasting the certainty for industrial mobilization. Analysis of the threat of complete collapse of industries due to fast increasing crisis; Information regarding the task and roles of heads of government departments, specially of Donald Nelson of the War Department, towards productivity increase; Report that the military, particularly the army service of supply under General Brehon B. Somervell, ran production with notable results as long as our national plant was traveling on reserves; Discussion of reasons responsible for the impracticability for the War Department to control industrial mobilization, including economic and civilian problems; Belief of the public and journalists about the production crisis as the result of a contest for power between Nelson and Somervell; Arguments for neither to militarize industry nor industrialize the army; Discussion of international influences over the present industrial structure of the U.S.; Information on the propaganda regarding President's proposed New Deal and its effectiveness.

Focuses on the civil rights of African American in the U.S. Improvement in the economic circumstances of the African American generation; Information on the extension of the rights of the American citizenship of the African Americans; Discussion of race, economics and education of the African Americans in Southern legislatures or on the floor of Congress; Comments on the fate of Populist movement for social and economic reforms; Comments on the civil liberties and American democracy.

Presents information on the race relations between the Whites and the Negroes in the U.S. Information on rumors of race-riots in Memphis; Recognition of the fact that the current race tension in the South is a growing threat; Probability of the Axis exploiting the situation on hand; Impact of the economic independence of the Negroes in the race troubles in Memphis; Investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine the causes of disturbed race relations throughout the South; Need for a major social reform; Sense of dignity growing among Negroes; Atrocities on Negroes living in Memphis.

Focuses on the role of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the New Deal program, and conversation and statements of Washington's government middle-class people, regarding Roosevelt and the program. Comments of an experienced and respected newspaperman, now in government service, on the morale of people in Washington; Account of the feeling of disgust and cynicism among the army officers and civilians, created by the New Deal; Suggestions of an American Federation of Labor official regarding the need for understanding of morale of workers in the production administration.

Focuses on an essay on the "New Yorker Magazine" written by reporter Stanley Edgar Hyman. Comments on people who have come to New York City in the last one hundred years; Discussion of a writer's ability to deal with a subject so vast as New York City and its relationship to America; Details of the topics on which articles have been written in the "New Yorker Magazine."

Focuses on the trial of African-American sharecropper from Virginia, Odell Waller, who killed his white landlord, Oscar Davis. Opinion of Governor Colgate W. Darden on the case; Statements of Waller before his electrocution; Information on handouts of the Workers' Defense League which turned Oscar Davis into a symbol of oppression; Reference to the case of Tom Denson who was a sharecropper at the farm of R.G. Siddle, who took all crops of Denson.

Presents a personal narrative about a river pilot from New Orleans, Louisiana. Depiction of a humorous story told by the river pilot about a Japanese captain; Tricks deployed by the Japanese Captains to venture the ships in unfavorable areas and conditions; Queries placed by the Japanese captain before the river pilot regarding the latter's knowledge of the area where he took the ship in a foggy night.

Presents information regarding race relation in Memphis, Tennessee. Analysis of the event of calling off the meeting of Sheriff O.H. Perry with the Afro-American leaders; Statement of Boss Crump, a local politician, that Memphis has treated its Afro-Americans well, had given them housing, medical centers, schools, etc.; Warning of the county attorney to the Afro-American delegation that the white people were arming themselves with clubs and guns and were going to break up the meeting if it was held; Insistence of white Southerners that expenditures for Afro-American schooling and housing are largely outright gifts, since afro-American pay scarcely 10 percent of the taxes.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Correction to the article "The Negro Press" that was published in the April 26, 1943 issue; Reports on the war between the Soviet Union and Japan; Discussion of the German and European aspects of the war.

Focuses on the problem of inflation confronting Washington. Amount of rise in the national income; Factors contributing to price inflation; Impact of a price ceiling for 30,000 commodities on inflation; Measure of limiting incomes and profits to reasonable figures to fight inflation; Proposal to adopt England's forced-savings plan and to make sharp increases in the Treasury's $7,600,000,000 tax bill.