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Narrates the story of Thailand's war with Vichy France and its international repercussions on the eve of Pearl Harbor. Vichy success against Thailand as an embarrassment to the Japanese; History of enmity between Thais, French and Vietnamese.

Presents information on various social and political developments around the world. Report that there are 10,000 French troops on the Spanish frontier guarding the refugees who are pouring across in tens of thousands as Franco completes his conquest of Catalonia; Declaration of the British government to protect France from any international threat; Information on a resolution passed by the U.S. House of Representatives continuing the life of the Dies Committee; Information on a strike by the utility magnates to provide people with cheaper and more abundant electricity; Advantage gained by the Ford Motor Co., due to the split in the United Automobile Worker of America; Information on a Negro who was one of the victims of lynchings in the United States in 1938; Description of a new monthly house organ called "High Time" by the Communist Party members; Information on the extremely cheap and safe Savings and Life Insurance that is now available to New Yorkers; Breakup of the diplomatic relations between Soviet Union and Hungary on the ground that Hungary had lost its diplomatic independence by joining the anti-Comintern pact.

The article presents comments on various news stories from the week of February 1, 1939. Topics discussed include the Spanish Civil War, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's removal of Hjalmar Schacht from his position as president of the German Reichsbank, and a split in the United Automobile Workers of America.

Focuses on various socio-political developments from around the world. View that Germany had for years suffered from the wrongdoing of others; Decision of the Supreme Court that the Tennessee Valley Authority has a constitutional right to go on with its power policy; Nomination of former Representative Thomas R. Amlie of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce Commission; Reference of growing influence of the German-American Volksbund in the U.S. due to Nazi propaganda; Information on French purchases of army airplanes; Effect of falling tendency of sterling exchange; Discussion of the Fascist powers' new plans of aggression; Details of the third five year plan of the Soviet Union; Demise of Robert Hallowell, one of the founding members of the journal; Reasons for disparity between opinions of John T. Flynn's column and that of the journal's editorial position; Description of the life and works of poet William Butler Yeats; Comments on the current mayoralty campaign in Chicago.

The article presents comments on various news stories from the week of January 25, 1939. Topics discussed include the debate over whether or not to make Guam a U.S. naval base, the Spanish Civil War, and evicted U.S. sharecroppers who set up tents on U.S. highways 60 and 61 as part of a protest demanding recognition and assistance from Congress.

The article presents comments on various news stories from the week of January 11, 1939. Topics discussed include rumors surrounding Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the head of the Ministry of Propaganda in Germany, U.S. relations with Japan, and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's appointments for Cabinet members, including Harry Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce.

The article presents comments on various news stories from the week of January 4, 1939. Topics discussed include U.S. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes's comments on Germany, the Pan-American Conference, and the author's concern over U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's decision to increase the number of U.S. military planes.

The article comments on various news stories from the week of December 28, 1938. Topics discussed include British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement and his talks with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, failed attempts for reform in the New York Stock Exchange, and the refusal of WMCA in New York City to air Father Charles Edward Coughlin's radio program.

The article comments on various news stories from the week of December 12, 1938. Topics discussed include the Republican Party in the U.S., the non-aggression pact signed by Germany and France, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement, and the federal finance committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The article offers global political news briefs. Attendees at the first session of the Pan American conference were disappointed with U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's speech. The seven days ending December 1 were considered a fateful period in European and Asiatic relations due to the direct threat posed by the fascist block to Soviet Union and France. Emerson Jennings has been convicted for the bombing of Judge W. A. Valentine's automobile during the anthracite strike of 1935.

Presents information on the current political developments around the world. Observation that rebel forces in Spain drew somewhat closer to Madrid and predicted the fall of the capital; Information on the presidential campaign in the U.S.; Dispute between Senator Arthur Vandenberg and CBS Broadcasting Inc.; Fact that three well established radio broadcasting stations in the U.S. are now offering a portion of their stock for sale to the general public due to the reallocation of wave lengths by the Federal Communications Commission; Allegations against American diplomatic and consular officials in Europe, of misrepresenting and betraying the policies of their government.

Presents news briefs related to various political issues from around the world. Statement that Great Britain, France and the U.S. supplemented the understanding for international protection of currency values with an agreement to control the movement of gold; End of the Arab strike in Palestine; Threat by the Soviet Union that if Italy, Germany and Portugal did not cease aiding the rebels, the country would consider the neutrality pact at an end.

Presents information on recent political and economic developments around the world. Aim with which China and Japan are preparing for a conference; Percentage decline in the gold content of the lira announced by the Italian government; Repudiation of the Communist support by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in defense of his financial policy; Reference to the initiation of recovery policies by the French government on the basis of devaluation; Refusal of the Secretary General of the League of Nations to publish the Spanish government's protest against foreign aid to the rebels.

Presents information on various socio-political developments in several countries, with particular focus on the U.S. Ultimatum served by Japan upon China to accept its various demands or face war in the near future; Devaluation of the French franc; Farm program offered by Governor Alfred M. Landon, which consists of subsidies for farmers plus unlimited production; Criticism made by Landon against the reciprocal tariff policy and the social-security law; Re-election campaign of U.S. Representative Vito Marcantonio of New York City.

Presents information on several political developments around the world. Increase in the tension between China and Japan, after several Japanese citizens had been killed by mobs in various parts of China; Reference to the conference of Progressives, associated with the Democratic, Republican and Farmer-Labor Parties, held in Chicago, Illinois, last week; Report that 7,000 French Leftist workers went on strike and barricaded themselves in the largest tire factory, Michelin SA's plant at Clermont-Ferrand in France.

Focuses on various socio-political developments from around the world. Presentation of a revised budget by the U.S. administration which was made necessary by increased expenditures on the bonus and drought relief; Response of France to Germany's threat of an enlarged regular army by greatly increasing appropriations for airplanes, mechanized equipment and means of defense; Intention of Head of United Mine Workers John L. Lewis and his colleagues to boycott the Tampa convention and to let their suspension from the American Federation of Labor go by default.

Focuses on various socio-political developments from around the world. Acceptance of the Franco-British doctrine of neutrality in the Spanish civil war by Italy and Germany; Information on the death of governor of Minnesota Floyd B. Olson and its affect on the progressive movement in the U.S.; Reflection of the fact that the Spanish civil war is hundred percent the fault of the military-fascist-monarchist group; Development of a new type of department store in the U.S. which may provide substantial assistance in relieving traffic congestion.

Presents news briefs related to various political issues from around the world. Reference to the fascist monarchist uprising in Spain; Evidence of the economic difficulties of Nazi Germany; Information on the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom; Example of the benefits conferred upon people by free private enterprise in the community of Manchester, New Hampshire; Report that a number of persons would be tried for conspiracy to assassinate Joseph Stalin, general secretary of the Communist Party, and other prominent Soviet officials.

Presents news related to current political and economic events around the world. Conferences of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt with congressional leaders and Treasury advisers in an effort to map out a fiscal program to be sent to the Congress; Suggestion by the British Cabinet for a vastly enlarged armament program for Great Britain; Discussion of political situation in Chile with reference to arrest of political leaders and owners of opposition newspapers; Plans of President Roosevelt to hold a new Pan-American Peace Conference to meet in near future; Statements about the leisure class issued by U.S. financier J.P. Morgan to the Senate Munitions Committee; Information on the book "Little Waters," issued cooperatively by the Soil Conservation Service, Resettlement Administration and Rural Electrification Administration; Termination of the strike of American Distillery Co. workers; Details of a ten-day test period to try out the value of the Stakhanov system of rationalize distribution of tasks in industry to increase output; Reference to an article "The Constitution and the Future," by Lloyd K. Garrison, published in the periodical.

Discusses political and social developments in the United States and other countries. Highlights of the State of the Union address of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Italian armies' extensive bombing expeditions in retaliation to Ethiopian victories in raiding outposts and lines of communication; Inconsistency of the League of Nations' brand of pacifism; Reports from London, England, of a Nazi plot for a mass expulsion of Jews from Germany; Strike of the crew of the S.S. Pennsylvania of the Panama Pacific lines.

Provides an insight into the deteriorating picture of world politics with emphasis on the political issues of the U.S. economy. Investigation of the European economy as Premier of France Pierre Laval and the British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare submitted peace plan to fascist dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini; Thrust on the Japanese expansion in China as U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and British Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare drew world's attention to the Nine Power Pact guaranteeing China's territorial integrity and expressed concern over recent threats to that integrity; Approval of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States amid the war politics for the U.S. participation in the Olympic games that are to be held in Germany; Account of the political skullduggery by Laval and Chamber of Deputies in France in order to disarm Fascist leagues; Attempt by the U.S. administration to find a substitute for the U.S. National Recovery Administration by calling a conference of labor and industrial groups under the chairmanship of Marion Berry; Completion of the first scheduled flight over the new trans-Pacific route of Pan American Airways--16,000 airline miles in going from San Francisco, California to Manila, the Philippines and return--was in many ways aviation's most impressive performance since its inception; Declaration of the death of Charles Kingsford Smith, one of the greatest of all long distance flyers; Decision handed down by Judge Hugh M. Dorsey of the Superior Court in Fulton County, Georgia that Georgia's anti-insurrection law, passed in 1866 to prevent disturbances among newly freed slaves violates both the state and United States Constitutions; Feature by the People's Press, the new left-wing weekly in Chicago, Illinois about conditions at Gauley's Bridge, West Virginia, where 476 persons are known to be dead and probably 1,500 more will die, as the result of silicosis.

The article presents several news briefs related to world politics. The Italian military has continued their advancement in Ethiopia and they have also shocked the world by their attack on the civilian population. Italian leader Benito Mussolini has offered peace on the basis that Italy keeps the territory she has now captured. Domestic politics continued to be the main focus of the news in the U.S.

Comments on the global political and economic developments. Concentration of the U.S. Supreme Court on the prompt enactment of tax-wealth program; Effort of the Sweden government to determine the nation's history of international armaments; Attempt of Utah administration to set up and operate a system of self-help cooperatives for the aid of the unemployed based upon production for use; Success of the Great Britain's Air Ministry on the development of a robot airplane.

Focuses on the socio-political issues of the U.S. in particular and the world in general. Demand of the Federation of Labor of the U.S. for a constitutional amendment and immediate legislation protecting labor from the wage cuts; Rise of Japan is posing a threat to European and American territories in the Far East; Information related to the $4,000,000,000 work-relief program in the U.S.; Dispute between Great Britain and Italy over the question of occupying Ethiopia; Adoption of conservative principles by the Republicans in a convention at Springfield, Illinois; Affiliation of the American Newspaper Guild with the American Federation of Labor; Question of legality behind the removal of officials by the Chief Executive of the U.S. whom he/she appoints; Information on the appropriation bill for 1936 that suggests an increase of $1,000,000 for the express purpose of setting up new units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in schools and colleges in the U.S.; Introduction of a bill in the U.S. Congress to reestablish asylum in this country for political, racial and religious refugees; Rise and fall of the British Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald; Calls for readers' response to the repeal of prohibition to public drunkenness in the U.S. ; Discussion of censorship imposed upon the German press.

Reports on several socio-political events from the world. Report that Germany and her war preparations continued last week to dominate the European scene; Information on the German government's violation of the Treaty terms, announcing that it is constructing twelve small, 250-ton submarines; Report that the President's speech, administration silver policy, domestic politics, the navy bill and the anti-lynching proposal have been the chief subjects of attention within the United States during the past week.

Focuses on political developments in the world. Fact that Germany's plans for conscription, upon which she has already decided whether the former Allies like it or not, will give her an army of approximately 800,000 men, about four-fifths as large as the Soviet Union's; View that the first result of German dictator Adolf Hitler's amazing diplomacy has apparently been to throw Great Britain into the arms of Soviet Union, and to reestablish the old Triple Alliance of these two Powers and France in everything but name; Discussion of the effect of European crisis on the Italian-Ethiopian relations; Opinion of William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor on the NRA bill related to the wages of employees in the U.S.; Demand of Green regarding the passage of the thirty-hour week and the Wagner labor disputes bill by the U.S. Congress.

Focuses on the political developments in the world. Protest on the repudiation of the Versailles Treaty; Proposal regarding the building of a huge navy as well as a vast army by the Germany; Discussion on the work-relief bill that went through the U.S. Senate by a safe majority; Information on measures designed to crack down on the labor movement and on every manifestation of radical or progressive activity; Report on dust storms that has caused damage to the top soil; Request for assistance to a number of former Social Democratic functionaries by the Austrian government.

Reports on socio-political events from the world. Information on the death of U.S. Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes; Report that the principal result of the U.S. government's decision to retire consols and Panama Canal bonds out of the profit that accrued to it from the devaluation of the dollar is to save the budget; View that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt has performed a useful public service in calling the country's attention to the orgy of propaganda; Report that the depression has affected the ability of the Soviet government to buy machinery from capitalist countries by driving down the prices of many of the goods the country produces.

Comments on several political and socio-economic issues from around the world. Consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating the gold clause in private contracts; Assessment of the reply made by the German government to the proposal of the Franco-British London Conference; Reaction to the proposal made by U.S. Senator William E. Borah, calling for U.S. intervention on the quarrel between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church; Evaluation of the creation of a neutral zone between the Italian and Abyssinian forces in Africa.

Comments on the political and socio-economic issues in various countries. Efforts of the Saarlanders to support the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler in Germany; Factors influencing the rise of communism; Details on the relationship of the Americans with several foreign governments; Expansion of the funds allotted for public-works and highways; Prohibition of the newspaper men to visit in the Central Soviet District in Kiangsi Province by the communist leaders; Views of the public officials on imperialism.

Comments on several political and economic issues from around the world. Criticism on the excessive opposition made by conservative opponents of the New Deal regarding the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the unconstitutionality of sections of the National Industrial Recovery Act dealing with the shipment of surplus oil; Incorporation of diplomacy in the charges made by Soviet Union accusing Germany of orchestrating the murder of statesman Sergei Kirov; Reaction to the investigation made by U.S. Senator Gerald P. Nye on the munitions business; Agreement made by the French and Italian governments to respect the sovereignty of Austria.

Presents information on various economic and political developments in several countries. Statements made by Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt demanding that the individual states pay a larger share of the cost of unemployment relief this winter; Decision taken by Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, to forbid German travelers to take more than ten Reichsmarks; Speech made by former head of the U.S. National Recovery Administration Hugh S. Johnson criticizing Roosevelt for firing him from the job; Role of the depression in inducing various governmental bodies toward gambling; Explanation of Japan's hesitancy to make war against the Soviet Union is furnished by the political development in Manchukuo.

Presents information on various political issues around the world. Details of the report on economic gains under the New Deal, prepared by general counsel of the National Recovery Administration, Donald R. Richberg; Growth in the total amount of industrial payrolls in the U.S.; Reciprocal treaty of the U.S. with Cuba; Expulsion of Dorothy Thompson from the Third Reich for her criticism of German dictator Adolf Hitler; Need for international understanding urged by German nationalist, Hjalmar Schacht; Exchange of notes between Japan and the Soviet Union about the Chinese Eastern Railway; Declaration by Arthur H. Compton, the physicist of the University of Chicago, that the progress of science was menaced by governmental regimentation; Information on International Tin Cartel; Court action against the Steel Labor Relations Board on the constitutionality of the congressional resolution that created it; Refusal of Amalgamated Association to recognize union committees for purposes of collective bargaining; Dispatch from Moscow to "The New York Times," of reports concerning some salient features concerning the progress of industrial production in the Soviet Union during the first half of the current year; Meeting of organization Khaki Shirts in Pennsylvania.

Presents information on recent socio-political developments from across the world. Information about the great campaign for home repair and modernization in the U.S.; Eighteen thousand banks are ready to make loans for these purposes to people who otherwise could not get the money, and the government guarantees them against loss up to 20 percent, as well as discounting the home owner's paper if desired; Impact of the Nazi movement on Austrian government and administrative circles; Elections in Germany; Mystery of the San Francisco, California longshoremen's strike brought out in the recent inquest into the deaths of Howard Sperry and Nicholas Boredeis, who were killed during the police attacks that accompanied the Industrial Association's attempts to open the port with force.

Comments on several political and foreign relations issues from around the world. Spectacle on a U.S. Senate Committee hearing regarding the appointment of Rexford Guy Tugwell as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Consequences of the decision of the Reichsbank to suspend commercial payments exceeding 50 marks to foreign countries; Opinion on the announced personal meeting between German dictator Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini; Changes in the language of the Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching legislative bill; Reaction to the strike declared by the employees of the Macaulay Publishing Co.

Presents information on various current socio-political issues and developments across the world. Discussion over U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order for the purchase and coinage of sliver to sooth an active group of so-called inflationists; Urge of the silver bloc that raising the price of silver would help restore the buying power of countries which use silver coin; Evaluation of Roosevelt's administration during the post-war period; Report that a new edict, under the so-called "cold pogrom" of the German Nazis, prohibits the employment of Jews for editorial or illustrative work in the newspaper and publishing business; Discussion over the new proposed Nazi law for sterilization for several groups in the population supposedly suffering from hereditary diseases; Information on the three-day strike of truck-men in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, calling sympathetic support of several locked-out taxi drivers; Evaluation of efforts of William M. Lelserson, executive secretary of the National Labor Board, to avert the general strike in the U.S.; Analysis of disillusionment and distrust of industrial workers that is developing toward the New Deal; Developments in the newspaper industry to strengthen its organization before attempting to force an adjustment of wages and working conditions.

Focuses on various socio-political developments from around the world. Aspects of the liquor problem which presents the irrepressible conflict between desire for profit on the part of the seller and the welfare of the community; Discusses the U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's monetary policy to overcome national crisis; Information on new series of trials in the Scottsboro case on a question of justice to Negroes charged with a serious crime; Announcement of different job-producing programs by German dictator Adolf Hitler during the ten months of his Chancellorship.

Reports on socio-political and economic developments from the world. Focus on the gold policy proposed by the U.S. President; Blame on scientific development for the desperate condition of the American farmer; Issues related to war in the Far East; Report that Austria's labor movement has come to the end of its course as a political factor in the life of the Austrian state; Views of U.S. journalist Walter Lippmann on the U.S. neutrality and its stand in the new European War; Announcement of the creation of corporate state by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

Presents an update on various political and economic events around the world. Comment on the scenario around the world with every powerful nation following the armament policy amidst the Disarmament Conference, which will shortly resume its sessions; Mention of an act of anarchy in Havana, Cuba in which an army without officers laid siege to a hotel; Characteristic scheme of fascist economics by which German government expects to force German exports' on the world at the, expense of foreign creditors; Revelation of acts of civil rights violations to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Focuses on various social, economic and political issues from around the world. Discussion on the overthrowing of the President of Cuba Gerardo Machado; Continuation of Cuba's ills even after removal of the butcher dictator; Abrogation of the Platt Amendment, under which the United States undertakes to guarantee the maintenance of peace in Cuba; Codes filed in Washington relating to the newspaper and magazine publishers; Information on the code which does not agree to raise the wages of persons already receiving more than the minimum; Comments on troubles besetting the milk industry leading to producers' strike in the state of New York; Suggestion that distributors must take a more active part in fighting the problems faced by the milk industry; Creation of Missouri Pacific committee which intends to tell the Missouri Pacific bondholders what is good for them in the midst of the wreckage of their bankrupt railroad; Appointment of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York as principal depositary of the latest bankers' committees; Selection of chief of the wheat-production section of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration M.L. Wilson as the supervisor of the federal government plan relating to subsistence farms; Statement that the law prohibits entrance as immigrants to believers in violent revolution; Claim that Germany has reduced its unemployed by two millions; Dissolution of the "Fighting League for the Commercial Middle Class," founded by Adolf Hitler; View that the National Industrial Recovery Act was the real spark that set off the strike of the employees of the Berkshire Hosiery Mills in Reading, Pennsylvania; Reference to strike of 9,000 shirt makers in the Phillips-Jones Shirt Company in Pottsville, Pennsylvania; Definition of a stock jobber as given by writer and critic Samuel Johnson.

Presents news briefs related to the economic and political developments taking place in the world. Discussion on the demands of the coal strikers belonging to the United Mine Workers Association; Importance of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Labor Mediation Board in comparison to the subsidiary local boards; Information on the milk strike in New York State; Impact of the methods of strike-breaking on poverty stricken farmers of the state; Investigation of conditions among steel workers in western Pennsylvania; Strike against the regime of President Gerardo Machado of Cuba.

Focuses on the socio-political conditions in the world, with emphasis on the U.S. Efforts of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in bringing about immediate reemployment of labor by shorter hours coupled with higher minimum wages; View that the employers who will give higher minimum wages can also make it a reason to increase prices of goods and subsequently exploit the consumer; Overview of the scenario of labor strikes in the U.S.; Indication in the report of Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, depicting the conditions in the shirt-manufacturing industry, the need for a general increase in the sweatshop wages; Dissatisfaction in the South over the operation of the government's cotton-leasing program; Blame on the Nazis and the Communists in Germany for creating a situation of unrest in the nation; Reflection of lack of coordination amongst the people of Germany in election in the German Protestant Church since the Gospel-and-Church faction behind the Reverend Dr. Friedrich von Bodelschwing, the representative of the German Nationalists, refused to recognize the newly elected church officers and protested the election after its defeat, charging that the Nazis had obtained their victory by the use of illegal practices; Conditions of Jews in Germany; Increase in abuse of American Jews in Germany after the American President's failure to intervene in Berlin against Jewish persecution; Critical analysis of Italian General Italo Balbo's continuation of airplane flight from Italy to Chicago; Advantages of the amalgamation of the two American trade unions-- United Flatters of North America, and the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers' International Union for the labor movement in the nation.

Focuses on the social and political conditions in the world. Report stating that members of the American delegation to the London Conference are reported to be indignant because British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald brought up the question of the war debts; Appraisal of the tax provisions encompassed in the Industrial Recovery Act; Anticipation that the French would be putting an additional 15-percent duty on imports from the United States; Discussion on the problems erupting in the Government of German dictator Adolf Hitler; Account of the discrepancy present in the Homeowners' Loan Bill that satisfies neither mortgagee nor mortgagor; Nomination of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman as Railroad Coordinator; Appointment of Basil Manly to the Federal Power Commission and Professor William E. Dodd, of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois as ambassadors to Germany by the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Argument by Professor Harold Laski for giving college faculties a voice in the selection of new presidents for their institutions.

Focuses on several issues related to U.S. politics and world politics. Positive reaction on the election of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt; Military campaigns against the southern borders of Germany; Fall of the Schelde estuary in Belgium into the hands of the Allies; Disadvantage of using landing crafts; Military campaign of General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines; Dismissal of Homer P. Rainey, president of the University of Texas, by the Board of Regents in a fight over academic freedom; Religious debate in France and Germany; Iranian government's refusal to grant to the Soviet Union concessions for the exploitation of the Kevir and Khurian oil deposits.

The article presents world news briefs as of April 10, 1944. The U.S., Great Britain, and Russia are in disagreement over various aspects of the war. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt has not made many speeches that address U.S. foreign policy. The American Labor Party in New York State held a primary election.

The article presents world news briefs as of March 27, 1944. It is rumored that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Russian leader Joseph Stalin will have a meeting. The Russian government has recognized Italian politician Pietro Badoglio. A town in Wisconsin has opposed an anti-Semitic organization.

The article presents world news briefs as of March 13, 1944. U.S. Undersecretary of State Edward R. Stettinius will travel to England to discusses various aspects of the war with the British government. Turkey has said it would be willing to join the Allied forces if given tanks and planes. There is divided opinion in the U.S. over a soldiers' voting bill.

The article presents world news briefs as of February 7, 1944. There are rumors that the U.S. State Department is unwilling to give arms to the French underground movement because some of its members are Communists. Two U.S. committees have been created to combat anti-Semitism. U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace is in favor of a constitutional equal-rights amendment.