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This article presents information on socio-political issues in different parts of the world. The party of change, the heirs of the German radical democracy extirpated in the first half of the century; have won a convincing electoral victory. With a combined majority of twenty-one seats in the Parliament, the Social Democrats and the Greens can form a government to take office at the end of October. Another issue concentrates on the word "McCarthyism," as many readers have pointed out is a misnomer since it describes a phenomenon that began before the junior senator from Wisconsin arrived on the scene and persisted after he was retired from it.

On June 7, 1954, officers of the Wisconsin Joe Must Go Club announced that the attempt to recall Senator John McCarthy in a special election had failed. Only 335,000 of the necessary 403,905 signatures had been obtained. But in the eyes of many the movement has served a useful purpose it demonstrated in many areas what McCarthyism really means and showed how the weapons of fear and intimidation are used to crush opposition to the Wisconsin junior Senator. One of the most dramatic examples took place in Green Bay, Wisconsin The victim was Robert C. Houle, a television announcer for a Green Bay station whose troubles began when he accepted the chairmanship of the Brown County Joe Must Go Club. Anonymous letters and phone calls branded him as a "Communist."

This article presents several briefs related to political developments in the United States. The first brief informs that the United States Administration's reply to the damaging Wisconsin-New Jersey bi-election defeats is a retreat to McCarthyism. This presents a very ugly situation that requires cool handling. The second brief discusses the issues raked up by Attorney General Herbert Brownell's speech. The third brief analyzes the United States president Dwight David Eisenhower's trip to Canada and the political scenario in Canada.