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Comments on the political and economic condition in France. Lack of constructive economic policy; Refusal of the government to accept U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's integral reparations program; Charges of personal corruption against members of the government; Demand for some sort of financial policy.

Focuses on the crisis at the Wall Street capital market. Comment on former U.S. President Richard Nixon's policy of high interest rates; Information that between 7500 and 9000 stock issues are actively traded over the counter, roughly four times more issues than are traded on the New York Exchange; Description of the impact of collapse of stock prices; Information about safeguards which can save people from economic consequences that flow from the liquidation of the capital markets.

Focuses on the stability of the Soviet organization after the death of its premier V.L. Lenin. Information that there is apparently little expectation among either the friends or the enemies of the Soviet government that any change in it is impending in the near future; Claim that three years ago, or even, two, the death of Lenin would have thrown the Soviet émigrés and the western conservative press into a paroxysm of prophecy; Dissensions, within the Communist party, from which the Soviet government admittedly draws its chief active support; Claim that none of the important factions seeks to abandon the "New Economic Policy" of concessions to private trading.

Discusses various issues related to inflation. Expansion of the means of payment intended to promote business; Introduction to the aims of the Steagall-Glass bill; Overview of the safeguards against an undue increase of credit and currency; Effect of the mentioned bill on prices in the market for stocks, bonds and commodities; Anticipation of the first effects from new measures; Text of benefits of credit expansion; Manipulation of credit and capital markets in an unplanned and individualistic economy.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Discussion on the review of the book "Bureaucracy Convicts Itself"; View an unscrupulous political conspiracy on the part of chief Forester Gifford Pinchot; Comments on the corrupt conspiracy to slander an innocent man; Improvement in the U.S. economic policy; Opinion of author George Orwell on English writing on war; Report on Randall Jarrell's piece on poetry criticism.

Presents information on the decline of mark in the global market. Causes of the decline of mark; Impact of inflation on the decline of mark; Attempt by the Germans to pay an impossibly large reparation demand; Rumors of Germany deliberately bringing on a financial catastrophe to evade reparations; Note on the situation of factories, farms, railroads and unemployment in Germany; Deficit of 1,500 million marks on merchandise account; Increase in the amount of German foreign security holdings; Reduction of about thirteen percent in Germany's geographical area and about ten percent in her population; Impact of the Treaty of Versailles on the economic condition of Germany; Purchase of food from other countries; Dismissal of rumors suggesting that inflation was pre-planned in Germany.

Presents information on seven falsehoods about Soviet Union. Misrepresentation of Soviet Union's New Economic Policy; Falsehood of the accusations of religious prejudice against the Soviet government; Explanation for the accusation that the Social Revolutionaries are being subjected to outrageous persecution in Soviet; Comment on the lack of freedom of speech in Soviet Union; Criticism that the Soviet government deliberately ignored its own starving millions and sold needed foodstuffs for export; Falsehood about Soviet that it is today a wretched and melancholy place full of suffering; Comment on the rumor that the Soviet government is persecuting the intelligentsia and the bourgeoisie in general.

Comments on the European fiscal situation after the war. Deficits sustained by various governments; Disparities in the revenues from taxation and the expenditures; Success of England in balancing its budget; Financial soundness of the French government evidenced by its ability to reduce its bank loans; Details of the German national and foreign debts; Conditions set by the U.S. for extending aid to European nations; Role of the armistice in promoting thrift, increased production, American export credits, cancellation of Allied debts and German reparations.

Examines the approach used by the administration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in handling the price increase made by the steel industry in 1962. Recount of the price increase incident and its consequences; Details of the investigations conducted by the government into the price increase; Criticisms drawn by Kennedy for the administration actions.

Discusses the economic conditions and economic policies in Great Britain. Acceptance of the government that one of its primary aims is the responsibility for the maintenance of a high and stable level of employment after the Second World War; Aim of the government to prevent the total expenditure for goods and services from falling when general unemployment appears; Intention of the government to plan the programs for capital expenditure five years ahead; Information on creation of consumer credits; Recognition by the government that many policies are fruitless unless wages and prices remain stable.

Comments on issues and events related to politics in the U.S. as of September 4, 1965. Criticism against the Republican position on the U.S. war in Vietnam; Views of former U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower on President Lyndon B. Johnson's economic policies; Overview of social legislation initiated by Johnson.

Discusses factors that pose a threat to free enterprise system in the United States. Possible damages that a monopoly can cause to the economy of the nation; Inadequate coverage given to a monopolistic trade practices case involving American Can Co. and Continental Can Co. Inc.; Charges of violating the Sherman Act leveled in a civil complaint against a group of banks and insurance companies in New York City; Business malpractice charges that have been leveled against A.B. Dick Co. and its dealers in an indictment; Efforts being made by the Anti-Trust Division of the Justice Department to take care of such cases of malpractice; Amendments to the anti-trust laws suggested by Governor Ellis G. Arnall of Georgia.

Focuses on the formation of Labor Policies Board, in the U.S. Agreement upon a liberal code of principles and policies with refreshing swiftness; Report that the members of the Board have set an example to employers and wageworkers throughout the country; Work of National War Labor Board; Claims that the declaration of the Labor Policies Board recognizes and affirms the right of the men to organize for collective bargaining through their own freely chosen representative.

Focuses on the charge by the Republicans that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt has the support of the Communists. Reflection of the charge in newspapers; Spearhead of the Republican attack, journalist and publisher William Randolph Hearst; Criticism of Hearst's attempt to malign President Roosevelt; Statements of Republican National Committee based on a book by George N. Peek; Accusation that the economic policy of President Roosevelt, the New Deal is socialist in character.

Focuses on issues related to poll tax, inflation and recent political developments in the U.S. Discussions against the anti-poll-tax bill; Opinion of members of the U.S. House to end poll taxes; Predictions regarding the fate of Democrats and Republicans in the coming elections; Information on congressional discussions to reduce inflation; Increase of consumer pressure in the U.S. Senate; Effect of food-subsidies on inflation.

Focuses on political and economic developments in the U.S. Information that top level industrial stocks average a normal yield of about 5 percent; View that the strength of the dollar depends not upon gold but upon what is being produced in the farms and the factories; Chances of some coverage to the Canada's national election; Comment that the worst hit politician so far is not a Democrat but a powerful Republican Congressman, Carl Andersen from Minnesota.

Presents information on several political and economic developments in the U.S. Information about the role of regulatory agencies in the regulating commercial activities in the U.S.; Comment on the performance of U.S. President John F. Kennedy; Comments on policies of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman; Description of effects of the Communist infiltration in the U.S.

This article presents information about inflation in the U.S. economy. The present administration inherited a price level which had been stable since early 1951. But Federal Reserve policies and Administration actions have now given hard money and inflation. In many ways this is the worst of all worlds except to those for whom high interest rates cannot dampen speculative enthusiasm. The consumer and small businessman pay higher prices for things they need and either find it difficult or impossible to borrow money.

Focuses on economic developments in the U.S. Role of banking business in economic prosperity of the U.S. Report on increasing bank dividends and extra dividends; Rise in small house-building; Information on U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's silver policy; Accumulation of silver by China to dump on the London market.

Focuses on plans of Yugoslavia to convert from a backward agrarian and mining country into a modern industrial nation. Discussion of the Five-Year Plan of Yugoslavia aimed at industrializing the Yugoslavian economy; Impact of totalitarian socialism and communism on the Yugoslavian society; Peculiarities of the Yugoslav revolution, which was unique among the Communist revolutions of postwar era; Impact of the Second World War on Yugoslavia; Report that it was simultaneously a war and a revolution which forged both the pattern of government and the basis for its popular support system already well established; Imposing of an economic blockade against Yugoslavia by the Soviet Union and its satellites, which deprived it of raw materials, carburant and machinery and obliged Yugoslavian Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito to solicit Western help; Changeover from private to state ownership of all industries and sources of natural wealth and the creation of socialized farm cooperatives as a result of Titoist socialism; Effectiveness of Tito's soft policy toward the peasantry; Result of Yugoslavia's solution of agrarian landlessness; Report that in Yugoslavia the state is omniscient and omnipotent.

Focuses on the demand for a loan by Mexico from the U.S. to meet its development and industrialization needs. Lack of knowledge among Americans as to the economic and financial policies of the governments they are helping; View that the problems faced by Mexico are one which grows out of a young and newly native capitalism; Statement that Mexico's income-tax collections are very less as compared with that of the U.S.

Offers a look at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) program initiated by Robert R. Wason, the association's president, in favor of the citizens of the U.S. Discussion on the price control policy of the NAM; Claim that the NAM is composed of 15,000 producing companies, which produce 85 percent of all manufactured goods in the U.S.; Survey on opinions of businessmen regarding extension of the price control policy; Link between the NAM and the American Meat Institute and the National Association of Real Estate Boards.

Focuses on politician Minnesota Governor Harold E. Stassen. Ambition of Stassen to become U.S. President in future; Description of policies of Stassen on economic and political matters; Information on Stassen's campaign; Information about previous Governors of Minnesota from the Farmer Labor Party; Record of Stassen on state issues; Opposition by Stassen to federal aid to housing and slum clearance in Minnesota; Comments on Stassen's policies towards labor.

Focuses on the social and economic development of colonies. Reason behind the establishment of colonies in the modern world; Role of the international cooperation in the economic and social development of the colonies; Explanation of the British colonial policy; Appointment of two strong commissions by the British government; Initiation of a new phase in British colonial policy by the British Parliament; Role of private capital in the development of colonies.

Focuses on the political and socio-economic issues concerning the U.S. Plan of the country to hold a conference for the purpose of considering the revision of the Chinese tariffs; Details on the reply of Germany to the French note on the security pact; Accounts on the usefulness of the League of Nations on forced labor in Portuguese Africa.

Presents information regarding political developments from around the world with emphasis on the U.S. Analysis of the precarious political condition of Europe as revealed by the leak of a confidential cabinet circulation in Great Britain; Suggestion that Great Britain must be guided, in the present unsettled state of things, by strictly selfish policies; Proposal for a mutual compact of security in which Germany should be included; Observation that France will pay her debt to the U.S. on her own but it will depend upon she receives from Germany; Comment of the naval men of the U.S. that the defenses of the country's islands are pitifully inadequate; Observation that the U.S. will develop Hawaii as the strongest outpost targeted at Japan; Observation that World War I broke that monopoly of potash which rested with excessive weight upon intensive agriculture; Intention of the U.S. congress to repeal war-time passport control and the espionage act; Information that since the close of the last session of U.S. Congress the Workers Health Bureau has made a survey of the legislative status of occupational disease, revealing a distinctly unsatisfactory situation.

Presents information on political and economic events of several countries. Information about the political situation of Europe; Description of the Dawes plan for economic development in Europe; Information on payments made by Germany for the loss of all her colonies and the abolition of her armies; Comment on the policy of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge about the Ku Klux Klan issue; Information on the arrival of the Prince of Wales in the U.S.; Information about the Cabot Fund report regarding working hours of industrial workers in the U.S.; Reasons which has prevented the League of Nations from adopting the American plan for suppressing the opium traffic through India; Description of the trial and sentence of Bolshevists leader Boris Savinkov by the Soviet Union's Supreme Military Tribunal; Views of U.S. Senator Simeon Fess on forthcoming elections in the U.S.

Presents information on the economic conditions in France and its economic policy. Assessment of the impact of the World War I on the French economy; Information that during the war, France raised an average per capita of twelve cents each year in war taxes; Failure of the French Government to control the public debt after the end of the War; Policy of the government to issue the government bonds and short-time notes, to check public debt; Criticism of the issuance of tax exempt government bonds.

Presents information related to various current socio-political and economic issues and developments across the world. Discussion of Senator Hiram Johnson's view over political negotiations and agreements with U.S. automobile manufacturer, Henry Ford, to get his support in labor issues; Discussion of Ford's radicalism theory; Argument that the government pays the full price for tax money and material taken for war purposes; Suggestions for paying the full price for man power; Details of financial consequence of the bonus and fund on the public debt; Analysis of secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department Andrew W. Mellon's decision regarding tax and tariff; Analysis of French government's intention about the approaching famine in Germany and the concerned reparation agreement between the Allied government; Analysis of recent administrative actions and policies towards the Nationalistic bloc of the new Labor government in Great Britain; Demand and hope for a sovereign republic by Greece after coming the National Assembly meets; Candescence among Americans in Manila, Philippines, because of the policy of the Independence party among the Filipinos; Report of the further illustration of the growing tendency toward common ownership of "chain" newspapers in New York City.

Reports on several socio-political events around the world. Threat to the German government of a revolution by the Monarchists or the Communists, or both; Terms of Germany's surrender reduced to three conditions--the release of political prisoners, return of deportees, and restoration of German sovereignty in the occupied territory; Surrender of Germany throws a white light upon the action of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in conferring with French statesman M. Poincare; Arrival of German Communist emissaries in the Soviet Union, and their declaration that the hour for revolution has struck and urging the Soviet Union to lend assistance; Actions in the League of Nations; Views on Professor Gilbert Murray's appeal in the name of the International Federation of Trade Unions to settle the reparations question or lay it before the League for settlement; Reports from Bulgaria charging the recent popular uprising to the machinations of the Soviet Union; Information on economic policy in Spain and Italy; Questions related to the prohibition and the problem of the wheat farmers in the United States; Relationships involved in trade unionism among highly skilled workers in context of the pressmen's strike in New York; Report that not since the time of the Zeppelin raids has there been so much interest in the dirigible; Boom of oil in Southern California discussed at the Los Angeles, California meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

The article focuses on the natural resources policy in the United States. In 1850 three-fourths of the land in the United States belonged to the government the result of acquisitions by purchase, treaties and war. Large grants to railroads and canal companies and small grants to homesteaders have pulled down the government's participation in land-holding, and today less than one-fourth of the land is federally owned. But this one-fourth has been carefully developed and conserved. Whether the government will continue to protect the public domain for the benefit of all the people or give it over for the benefit of a few special interests rests with U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay and the 83rd U.S. Congress.

The article comments on the U.S. President Harry S. Truman's budget and tax messages. In his budget message, the President estimated that tax laws now in effect will raise about $55 billion in fiscal year 1952. Expenditures for fiscal year 1952 are estimated at $71.6 billion. Estimates of such magnitude obviously cannot be exact. Some of the expenditures proposed. such as those for the military services, may have to be estimated. Nevertheless, it is clear that the prospective deficit of $16.5 billion forecast in the budget message does indicate fairly the magnitude of the tax problem.

Focuses on the state of economy in Yugoslavia. View that the country resembles a primitive caricature of laissez-faire capitalism; View that whatever socialism inheres in this nation resides in the property relationships that have been guaranteed in law; Report that private ownership of the means of production is restricted to enterprises with five employees; Report that there are no handouts, either in welfare or unemployment insurance, except for the disabled and the aged; Information on the economic system of the country; Increase in the per capita incomes, in real and purchasing power terms; Political history of the country; Account of economic performance of the country; View that the dangers to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are from within, in its ethnic and economic divisions, and from without, in the jealous animosity of the Soviet Union.

Focuses on issues besetting power and energy resources in the U.S. Shortcomings of the government's energy and energy consumption policy; Statistics on energy consumption and production of crude oil; Threat of dwindling energy sources and supply; Call on the need for energy conservation; Appraisal of the purposes of the national energy policy; Background on several power-generating plant.

Focuses on inflation and its impact on an economy. Definition of inflation, noting it occurs during economic periods where prices are rising; Economic theory related to the measures that can be employed to fight inflation, including wage reductions and interest rate changes; Impact of borrowing and lending from banks on the money supply; Application of economic policy through the Federal Reserve Bank system and the tools available to the Federal Reserve; Reserve requirements for banks as a method to fighting inflation; Interest-rate changes as a method to curbing inflation; Discussion of open market sales of government securities as a method to fighting inflation; How banks prefer inflation be fought; Effects of inflation-fighting measures on the small borrower; Recommendation that federal budgets be balanced and federal spending on social welfare increase.

Focuses on the new type of inflation which has come to be referred to in Washington as administrative inflation. Information on reports in the periodicals emphasizing the uncertainty that general credit controls can deal with price rise; Details about the report of the U.S. Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee according to which the inflation in wholesale prices has been largely in the concentrated industries; Discussion of three types of inflation and the relation among them; Analysis of the period of inflation following the Second World War and the start of the Korean War; Comparison of price changes from the second quarter of 1957 before the sharp recession began to the second quarter of 1958 when industrial production reached its lowest point.

The article focuses on the regime of German leader Adolf Hitler in Germany. Based on the economic and social philosophy of Hitler, unearned and unwarranted incomes are abolished. Hitler's policy on tariffs and reprisals is said to create its great impact on export countries including Denmark, Holland, and Sweden which need to balance their trade with the country. Doubled import duties on food products are also carried out by the new government as a way to limit the food crisis.

Presents information on political and economic developments in the U.S. Views on the tax bill; Information on a worldwide monetary conference to be held in London; Announcement of formation of new corporations for stabilizing the stock and bond markets; Action by the U.S. government on currency inflation; Discussion on socialism in the new regime in Chile; Focus on Chilean revolution; Need of emergency laws to deal with crisis; Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment by the industrialist John D. Rockefeller; Inclusion of a measure for a 3-percent tax on the business of privately owned electric companies; Decision by courts to safeguard African Americans; Prosecution of an American citizen and a member of the Communist party, Israel Lazar, under the Pennsylvania Sedation Act;

Presents an article from a series of five articles, which are condensed and adapted in the book "A Planned Society." Mobilization of the army to substitute garden cities for slums, to restore soil fertility and reforest waste regions, to carry out flood control, and to increase the necessities of life; Demands made by U.S. government agencies to raise and equip a gigantic modern army; Comments on the development of an economic planning system for the army, the navy and other great purchasers; Discussion of a system of federal employment exchanges to economize the supply of labor; Explanation of the procedure of war finance; Causes of inflation during the war.

Presents an overview of political developments in the U.S. Description of Communist Demonstration; Introduction of Democratic-Republican tax bill; Focus on achievement of peace in the modern world; Outline of the Lindberg case of kidnapping; Discussion on relation of public emotion with Lindberg case; Role of the federal bill in kidnapping cases; Utilization of the opportunity for displaying at worst vulgar arts by mass media; Announcement that France trying to bring about a customs union among Austria, Hungary and members of the Little Entente; View on constitutional amendment in regard with elections; Information on infant-mortality rate; Focus on economic position of the country.

Presents information on some recent socio-political developments. Impact of deflation on the global economy; Reports of bank failures in the U.S.; Campaign for voluntary unemployment relief; Shortage of funds to carry on the campaign; Recommendation for raising funds through local tax resources; Failure of American Federation of Labor to implement the policy of compulsory unemployment insurance; Information on the anti-Catholic movement taking place in Spain; Decision of the Constitutional Cortes to separate Church and State and to nationalize the property of the Jesuits; Indictment of Bishop James Cannon under the Corrupt Practices Act; Prosecution of Al Capone, a U.S. gangster of some repute, for fraudulent evasion of federal income tax; Effect of the article titled "The Tragedy of Tony," by Ernest J. Hopkins published in the October 7, 1931 issue; Reference of the case of Tony Colletti, a young Italian arrested for murdering of his wife; Exposure of New York City administration officials having unaccountable sums of money; Change of venue for the semi-annual conference organized by the Institute of Pacific Relations; Permission to Guido Serio, an Italian Communist, to got to Soviet Union at his own expense.

Presents author's views on the U.S. foreign loans. View that the U.S. foreign loans involves two process: a foreign government or city spending more than its revenues and an American banker selling bonds; View that the purpose of public borrowing is always to balance income with outgo; Information on the conditions necessary to borrow effectively; Method used by France to wipe out 80 percent of its public debt; Information that mutual agreement between the debtor government and its bondholders has been a very common method of canceling public debt; Focus on the causes of national deficits.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Decision of the Catholic Church to uphold the Loyalist embargo; Reference to the book "It Is Later Than You Think," by Max Lerner; Opinion of columnist John T. Flynn's that the government investment activities should be wealth-producing and, in so far as practicable, revenue-producing; Formation of the Committee to Uphold Southern Democracy to aid the Southern Organizing Committee of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union in their aggressive fight to win suffrage for the impoverished farmers of the South and to improve the living standards of the most depressed and exploited section of the population.

Focuses on the oppositions to the national power policy in the United States. Reaction of engineering graduates on the private ownership of electric utilities; Refusal of engineering societies to participate from discussions of power; Preference for steam power than water power.

Reports political and socio-economic issues in the U.S. Opposition the Army authorities to any further degree of national ownership of munitions plants; Presentation of economic program by the two leading organizations of employers, Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers to President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Conviction of Communist and World War Veteran for criminal syndicalism violations; Reaction of the canners and wholesalers to the consumer advice by "The Market Basket."

Focuses on the economic effects of the world crisis in Italy and discusses the efforts made by the country to confront the crisis. Statistics of the drop in the freight traffic, monthly exports, and bank note circulation in the country; Inability of the country to maintain its foreign trade under adverse circumstances; Loss of foreign markets; Information on the basic program of economic nationalism with which Italian fascism attempted to meet the crisis; Restoration of the pre-war duty of 75 gold lire a ton; Results of the attempt to stimulate the production of wheat; Trouble with the stabilization of lira.

Presents information on the political and economic development before the forthcoming election in Great Britain; Description of the spending capacity of people in spite of price hike; Information on the condition of public transportation; Comment on the survival of parliamentary democracy; Expansion of the welfare state and mixed economy; Information that the Liberal third party collected only 14 seats in the House of Commons compared with 301 for Labor and 297 for the Tories; Comment on the nationalistic movement.

Comments on U.S. foreign secretary Ernest Bevin's speech, on labor policy, delivered in the U.S. House on August 20. Agreement of all the political -parties upon implementing the decisions of the Potsdam proposals, on making the best of the Charter of the United Nations and working to preserve unity within the Big Five as the foundation for peace; Need for unifying and reconstructing Europe on democratic lines; Declaration of the Labor Party that socialism is a fundamental necessity for the attainment of our international as well as our domestic aims; View that the problem of India's relationship to the U.S. country is a matter of international concern.

Discusses the threat of inflation in the Federal Reserve Bank system in the U.S. Issuance of emergency currency by the Treasury Department to arrest a panic and shut it up in the New York Stock Exchange; Debate on the option of calling the situation an extremely dangerous financial time or defer the event and trust to the emergency measures already adopted; Reasons for such an inflation; Discount rates offered by the Federal Reserve Bank in order to stem the inflation; Scheme of the Bank to expand credit for the next three years; Function of the system to stabilize credit and not to make credit cheap.