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The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of April 24, 1971. U.S. foreign economic and political relations with China are discussed in detail. The forced closings of domestic paper mills due to Federal anti-pollution standards are reviewed. The State Department's foreign training programs for police methods and anti-communism is described.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues of "The New Republic." Reaction to concerns about the use of pieces of paper to denominate general claims to goods and more specific ownership claims; "New York Preliminaries," which questioned the steadfastness of the adherence of U.S. Representative Samuel Stratton to liberal principles; "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which focused on the social condition of African Americans.

The article presents information about the book "Introductory Papers on Dante," by Dorothy L. Sayers. The present volume is a series of lectures delivered on various occasions and concerned with a number of problems of the interpretation of poet Alighieri Dante's imagery. These are good Dantean problems and it is obvious that it brings to them a scholarship both profoundly well informed and deeply thought. Sayers' zeal for Dante drives her to overstate and thence to over argue many of her points and even to develop a series of defenses of Dante.

Discusses the U.S. bombings during the war in Vietnam. Views of critics on the Vietnam bombings; Factors responsible for the U.S. decision to bomb Vietnam; Views of Pentagon analysts; U.S. government's attitude regarding the future of South Vietnam.

Reviews the films "Hitler: The Last Ten Days," "A Touch of Class," written by Melvin Frank and Jack Rose and "Paper Moon," starring Tatum O'Neal.

Examines the relationship of the U.S. press controlled by whites with its African American readers in 1965. Roles played by the press in the race situation in the country; Ideas and values advanced by the press to its African American readers; Rights and privileges that has yet to be awarded to African Americans; Significance of the press in preparing the society for the social change brought by the changing socio-political conditions of African Americans.

The article focuses on the book "The Papers of Christian Gauss," edited by Katherine Gauss Jackson and Hiram Haydn. It is plain, from the testimony of his former students at Princeton, that Christian Gauss was an extraordinary teacher. Edmund Wilson has acknowledged his debt to him in a tribute that serves as a prologue to "The Shores of Light," and has indicated that John Peale Bishop and F. Scott Fitzgerald were also profoundly influenced by his teaching.

The article presents information about two books: "Douglas of the Supreme Court" and "The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren." Half of The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren and much the greater part of Douglas of the Supreme Court are selections of opinions. Offerings of this sort, a bit of a fashion in recent years, are extremely treacherous business at best. Of the many difficulties and dangers they are fraught with, hardly one occurs to the author that is solved or avoided in either of these books.

Reviews several motion pictures. "Funny Girl," directed by William Wyler, starring Barbara Streisand and Omar Sharif; "Barbarella," directed by Roger Vadim, starring Jane Fond and David Hemmings; "Paper Lion," directed by Alex March, starring Alan Alda; "The Lion in Winter," directed by Anthony Harvey, starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.

Offers a look at the extent of air pollution in Lewiston, Idaho and Clarkston, Washington caused by the operation of the pulp mills of Potlatch Forest Industries. Information on a report from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare based on environmental survey of the towns; Reaction of state agencies to the efforts of the federal government to address the problem; Health problems suffered by the population because of pollution.

This article presents information related to refugees. The Hungarian refugees in Vienna, Austria, are living lives that cannot be IBM-carded. Most families are broken up, one or more of the adults living in a camp, the children in boarding schools or in private homes. They make fantastic treks to see each other. A man in a camp near Salzburg travels 400 miles each weekend to see his wife who cooks for an American family in Vienna. Their children are in a school in Lower Austria. He has no job; she has the only income in the family. They are more fortunate than some. The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration has registered 1,898 refugees who are termed "hard-core"; too old, too sick or, for some other reason unable to work and, in most cases, impossible to place. Even those refugees who have skills do not easily find jobs. Although the Austrian economy, at present, is quite firm, it still cannot absorb much outside labor.

This article presents information on different newspapers, read by the people of the U.S. The article also presents an account of headlines and statements, published in these newspapers, regarding a controversy surrounding the students of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. One of the newspaper "San Francisco Chronicle," said that presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson quelled a pushing, pulling mob of Yale students by appealing to their pride as Yale men and Americans." As reader, Francis J. Carr, of Palo Alto, California observes: "The upshot of the whole affair was that apparently the Yale students were in a rather festive mood."

The article presents an exploration into the personality and political profile of the advisor Pat Moynihan to the administration of President Richard Nixon. Moynihan's views on poverty and the political responsibility of the government concerning them are discussed, highlighting comments written in the book "Republican Papers," by Melvin Laird.

Focuses on the taxation of the income of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Announcement that Nixon would pay the taxes he owed to Internal Revenue Service and the Senate-House Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation on his income during the first four years of his presidency; Information about the gross income of the president during that period; Details of deductions for a gift of his pre-presidential papers to the National Archives; Information about the valuation of donated papers by a professional appraiser.

Presents the investigation of taxes by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. Overstatement made by the Nixon; Discussion of the donation of papers with former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson; Efforts of the Congress to close the tax loophole that allowed for the donating of deductible papers; Overview on the investigation; Estimation of the amount of possible deduction on tax returns of Nixon for four year, 1969 to 1972.

The article presents the author's comments on the paper "We Need Both Professions. Neither Is Likely to Eliminate the Other." The author says that one needs to merely scan the works of popular 19th Century Protestant preachers to find their exhortations to follow the path of good conduct and to avoid the pitfalls of evil. The Catholic preachers of this period did not ignore the reality of sin. However, the paper claimed that people generally doubt the reality of virtue nowadays but this is not true because psychiatrists are trying to make their patients behave in a way which, in the old days, would have been called virtuous.

Focuses on grand jury system investigating the leakage of secret documents from the U.S. Department of Defense. People accused of duplicating the Pentagon papers; Provisions related to secrecy of proceedings in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure; Information that because Lynda Sinay, the woman who had allegedly helped duplicate the Pentagon Papers, testified before the grand jury, is free from possible prosecution.

Presents information on criminal fraud committed by Ralph G. Newman, the appraiser of U.S. President Richard Nixon once tax-deductible gift of vice presidential papers. Change of statements by Newman; Investigation of the matter by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service; Reasons given by Newman for his earlier misstatements; Statement by Newman that he had reviewed his files and his activities pertaining to the Nixon gift.

Focuses on the implication of the disclosed Pentagon papers, which have been maneuvered by intelligence officer Daniel Ellsberg, for the administration of President Richard Nixon and the national security issues in the U.S. Opinion that pro-Democratic federal bureaucrats hostile to President Richard Nixon would be tempted to imitate Ellsberg and slip newsmen potentially embarrassing tips on domestic and national security policies; Views expressed by various politicians that this has been attempt to seal off any leaky spots in the government; Confirmation on future disclosures following the Ellsberg precedent; Impact of the administration's response on the Watergate investigation.

Analyzes the credibility and quality of television programs aired by television networks NBC, CBS and ABC to portray the Vietnam political crisis in the 1960s, including the programs "Vietnam Perspective" of CBS and "White Paper" of NBC. Criticisms on the television program "Vietnam, December 1965"; Views on the efforts of the three networks to make documentaries on Vietnam; Factor that is missing from all the Vietnam programs.

Presents information regarding the societal and economic change taking place in Oregon. Disenchantment of Oregon towards population growth; Information that except for its lumber, paper and small-scale electronics concerns, Oregon has never undergone much non-agricultural development; Disinclination of Oregon towards diversification of industry that pollutes; Considerable spending of Oregon on the quality of life of the people.

The article presents news briefs for the week of March 13, 1965. Particular attention is given to the domestic and foreign policies of the U.S. Article topics include the U.S. State Department's White Paper on the Vietnam War, the United States dedication to fighting Communism, as well as discussion on a U.S. housing program which would provide jobs for Americans and aid those in need of home.

Examines the factors causing the closure of the daily newspapers in the U.S. Conspiracy of the publishers for greater mutual profit; Role of the advertisers in the publications; Claim that 75 to 80 percent of the total cost of delivery of a newspaper is paid for by advertisers who purchase white space in the paper at rates based largely on circulation.

This article presents news including foreign trade bill that was discussed during United States President John F. Kennedy's State of the Union address, other factors discussed in Kennedy's address, which reflects his 1961 pattern of relations with the U.S. Congress, and several hundred journalists in Los Angeles, California, who lost their newspaper jobs when two downtown papers went out of business.

The article is a continuing part of papers on the life of U.S. politician Richard M. Nixon. It was August 1945 and World War II was ending and for the first time in six years Republicans dared turn their attention from the instant peril of Fascism toward the object of their first hatred the New Deal. At that moment, still in the uniform of a lieutenant commander, Nixon was handling contract termination work for the Navy in Baltimore. After joining politics Nixon had the good fortune to learn in his first campaign that there was a trick to winning elections.

The article focuses on a biography on U.S. President Richard M. Nixon by William Costello. When the editors of journal "The New Republic," asked Costello more than a year ago to undertake a definitive study of the Nixon record, they were not in search of pumpkin papers. Many of the particulars were already in print, but the full story had yet to be presented Costello, a Washington political reporter, is a respected veteran in all news media. Although his wide-ranging review of the Nixon career begins at the beginning with boyhood struggles and includes what is perhaps the first complete factual account of his record in Congress and the Vice Presidency, the focus is on Nixon as campaigner

The article focuses on the cold war that has been waged for some time at Florida State University between undergraduates and the administration, over control of undergraduate publications. The bone of contention has been the undergraduate semi weekly newspaper, "The Florida Flambeau." The administration has often been annoyed by the liberal stand taken by its editors. But the new dean of students, newly-arrived from Oklahoma A&M University quickly captured the confidence of the undergraduate leaders and soon persuaded the paper's staff that it could be printed on the campus. One recent undergraduate editor was forced out, and almost every editor for the past several years has had trouble with the administration.

The article presents the author's comments on the papers by Dr. William Libby and Senator Estes Kefauver related to atomic energy. Dr. Willard Libby, one of four Atomic Energy Commissioners gave a statement in testimony on February 22 before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Civil Defense. Together with the February 15 publicity release of the AEC, it lifts at last a corner of the curtain that has hidden from people, knowledge of the future. It is a foreboding future. Senator Kefauver quotes, related to a 14-megaton bomb similar to the one that was detonated at Bikini on March 1, 1954. We are assured now by Val Peterson, the Federal Civil Defense Administrator, that super bombs four times the size of the 1954 weapon can be made. The increase in megatonnage, in fact, is relatively cheap and easy to attain.

Reports on the role of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on domestic and foreign intelligence operations in national security. Inclusions of the undisclosed operations; Overview of the cases; Complications of the Plumbers' operations involving relationship with the CIA; Information that the White House was engaged in secret intelligence operations even before the publication of the Pentagon papers and other news leaks.

Comments on the U.S. Air Force's briefing paper suggesting the bail out of defense contractor Lockheed Aircraft Corp. by the United States Department of Defense. Value of C-5A aircraft contract of Lockheed with the U.S. military; Debate on whether the government will bypass the Armed Services Board of Contract appeals, which is litigating the claims of Lockheed against the government on C-5A aircraft; Dispute between Lockheed and the government as to whether the government is obliged to buy C-5A aircraft from Lockheed; Proposal of the Air Force to settle the dispute by replacing the C-5A contract with cost plus fixed loss contract.