The Week.

Presents socio-political and economic news from the world. Implications of the U.S. domestic recovery program and its refusal to stabilize dollar in international exchange; Information on the proposal of the Soviet Russia to other nations at London Conference that she would buy from them 1,000 million dollars' worth of goods of many sorts if they would only provide reasonably adequate credits; Announcement of plans for wheat and cotton under new legislation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Information on the leasing and option schemes for cotton by the U.S. Government; Report that the U.S. Government is negotiating abroad with the other chief wheat-exporting nations to see whether an international agreement on production and an assignment of export quotas can be reached, in order to reduce the surplus hanging over world markets; Information on the use of Industrial Recovery Act in oil and cotton textile industries; Report that the long expected open break between the Austrian Government and the Nazis has at last taken place; Support of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini to Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' Government; Criticism of the production of the thirty-seven ships for the U.S. Navy; Report that American Ambassador to Cuba has offered to act as mediator and bring all factions together in the attempt to find some satisfactory compromise which will bring to an end the present impossible situation in Cuba; Implications of the proposed tax on all motor cars, city bridges and business by New York Mayor John P. O'Brien; Apology of the journal and the writer Lawrence Dennis on the erroneous reading of the book "The Investor Pays," by Max Lowenthal.