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Images play as important a role as guns in the Nigerian civil war. The Biafran secessionists, among Africa's most sophisticated peoples, have known from the beginning that their chances for success depended as much, on evoking world sympathy as on holding back the federal army. Now, after twenty months of war, it is clear that the Biafrans have been far more adept at propaganda than soldiering. If they survive in some sovereign form, they will owe it to their skill with images. Part of the Biafran success in public relations stems from the federal Nigerian Government's failure at it.

The article presents the role of John Wheeler-Bennett in encouraging the growth of separatist movement in Bavaria and Baden. According to Wheeler-Bennett, the Bavarian forest and mountains are still so crowded with bandits that the roads through them ate very unsafe even by day. Some of these men are soldiers who refuse to accept the surrender and shoot our fellows whenever they have a chance. On some such occasions pitched battles take place, and there are very few survivors. One or two quite prominent Nazi leaders are in the mountains, and hold up the traffic as though they were robber barons.

This article focus on the issue of Separatism in Quebec after Daniel Johnson's Union Nationale had scored a narrow upset victory over the Liberal government of Premier Jean Lesage. In recent years Johnson has become an advocate of Associate Statehood for Quebec, a more sophisticated brand of the Separatism espoused by young romantics and some professors in Quebec's universities He is the first Quebec premier to endorse such a doctrine. The federal government wonders how far Johnson will press his main election plank, his demand that Quebec take over all personal income, corporation and succession taxes collected by Ottawa in Quebec.