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Focuses on Russian politician Leon Trotsky who was assassinated in Mexico City, Mexico. Information about the political activities of Trotsky; Account of Trotsky's grandson Esteban Volkow about the day on which Trotsky was assassinated; Response of Volkow on being asked whether he saw the assassins; Circumstances under which Trotsky was expelled from Norway.

Focuses on the collapse of the socialist-communist alliance in France and its effect on other nations. Reference to the deliberate act of the Communists to freeze themselves out of mainstream French politics; Consensus among informed French politicians that the Communists made a painful decision to abandon the Leftist alliance altogether than to be a junior partner in a government of President François Mitterand; Preference for the status quo in France by the Soviet Union government; Advantage of the leftist split in France to the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Focuses on the establishment of foreign policy in the U.S. Factors that lead to the consistency of foreign policy; Concentrations of private power which have governed the country since the Civil War; Assessment of U.S. relations with communist governments and movements; Need to establish political order for interdependence, which assumes the existence of a multiplicity of self-sufficient, impenetrable sovereign nation-states.

Analyzes the political situation in the Philippines and the American involvement in it. View that a victory by the Communist guerrillas would eliminate whatever hope there is in the Philippines for the restoration of democracy; Reasons why the U.S. is inextricably involved and inevitably influential in the Philippines; Description of the working democratic system in the Philippines; View that the U.S. should reject any notion of removing President Ferdinand Marcos from power; Information on the most effective way to persuade Marcos to initiate reforms and to convince the Filipino people that the U.S. is committed to their economic well-being and political freedom.

Focuses on the American government's policy towards communists and communism under President Ronald Reagan. Communism-related problems associated with issues relating to arms control; Claim that the government's policy is centered on red-baiting as illustrated by Reagan's attacks on the Soviet Union-funded World Peace Council; Reasons why the alleged collaboration between the communists and the U.S. Peace Council (U.S.P.C.) members should be considered as having no political meaning; Impact of red-baiting on the communists; Opinions on the issue expressed by U.S.P.C. executive director Michael Meyerson; Role of the U.S.P.C. in the nuclear freeze movement; Responses to the efforts of the U.S.P.C. to gain entry into the peace movement.

Opposes the treatment of Hollywood Communists, a group of writers and directors in the U.S. who refused to admit their alliance with the Communist Party, as freedom fighters. Distortion of the image of the Communist Party by the media; Problem posed by the dual nature of American communism; Misconceptions about the Hollywood Communists.

Focuses on the efforts of Russian President Boris Yeltsin to build a post-Communist society. Process of disintegration of Communism in Russia; Argument that the principal factor governing the prospects for Yeltsin's reform is the legacy of Soviet failure, including perestroika; Advocacy of democracy in Russia, which implies refusal of the Communist monopoly of political power; Argument pertaining to the demystification of Communism in Russia; Support of Yeltsin to the Democratic Russia Movement; Assessment of reforms prospects of Yeltsin.

Focuses on the developments concerning politics and government in Hungary. Collapse of Communism in Hungary; Emergence of political opposition; Information on a revolution that was crushed by the Communists; Efforts of the Hungarian Communists to reinvent themselves; Events related to the parliamentary elections; Comments on the history of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

Presents ways in which American beatniks are perceived in the Soviet Union, while comparing them with the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union. Abusive connotation of the term in its initial usage; Official Soviet view of the American beatniks; Chronological coincidences and hasty parallels between the Western beat movement and the Soviet New Wave; Impact of the subculture of the 1950s on the outburst of a powerful counterculture of the 1960s; Impact of Stalinism on the generation of the article author; Factors which distinguished the development of Bolsheviks from the beatniks.

The article focuses on the Southeast Asian countries and the administrative problems facing them. It is opined that while none of the Southeast Asian leaders saw independence as the end of the revolution, few anticipated the complexity of the problems they would face or had the administrative competence to cope with them. Too often, therefore, the struggle for Asia has developed into a contest between right-wing armed forces on the one hand and Communism, on the other. This could only be checked by the intervention of armed forces.

This article focuses on the elections in Formosa. From 1895 to 1945 Formosa was a Japanese colony. In the years after 1945, Formosa was very badly governed and resentment against the new rulers from the mainland culminated in the revolt of 1947 which was very brutally suppressed. The view that Formosa ought to be part of China, in fact that it is part of China, is equally strongly held. Formosa has historically been part of China and under effective Chinese administration from the 17th Century till 1895 and its population is Chinese. Neutralization of Formosa might be possible and would remove any real basis for Communist fears of an actual attack on the mainland. Today, it is quite likely that a UN supervised election in Formosa would do nothing at all to produce a settlement.

The article presents various world news briefs. The U.S. defense budget may increase by $2 billion, well below the increase recommended by the Gaither Committee and the Rockefeller Brothers Report. Television news staffs have shown a greater degree of editorializing in news broadcasts. The conference of communist-sponsored Afro-Asian Solidarity Committees was hosted in Cairo, Egypt.

Focuses on the American participation in the Communist-sponsored Youth Festival in Moscow, Russia. Impact of the politically unsophisticated American youth on the city; Position of the Department of State on the attendance of American delegation in the event; Special treatment given by the Russian crowds and officials to the dark-skinned and the Arab delegates.

Profiles Lin Pao, deputy in command of the People's Liberation Army, the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards and right-hand man of Mao Tse-tung. Policies as a director of a Red Army military academy; Physical appearance; Family and educational background; Life as a communist and a military man; Rules added by Lin to the eight basic disciplines of Red warriors; Capabilities in military tactics and strategy; Role of Lin in the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek and in the establishment of the Red Army.

Presents the views of George F. Kennan, a former adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State and a former foreign service officer, which calls for the government to liquidate its involvement in the war against communists in Vietnam. Implications of the military pressure against the Viet Cong on civilian life in Vietnam; Possibility of a military conflict with communist China; Role of the Vietnamese conflict in the deterioration of U.S. relations with the Soviet Union; Effects of the U.S. military intervention in Vietnam on the image of the country to people around the world.

Analyzes how the U.S. government and intelligence agencies campaigned against the administration of Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic which led to his ouster in September 1963. Details of the fabricated intelligence reports issued by the government to link Bosch to Communist leaders; Influence of Cuba's Fidel Castro on Dominican Communists; Details of how the government manipulated the press to protect itself; Criticisms on the policy exempting the intelligence establishment from investigation and public scrutiny.

Offers views on several versions of intelligence information regarding the revolution in the Dominican Republic on April 24, 1965 by the Partido Revolucionario Dominicano (PRD) headed by former President Juan Bosch. Alleged involvement of the Communists in the planning and leadership of the revolt; Information on several news reports connecting Bosch with the Communists; Accusations of working arrangement entered by PRD with several communist movements, based on a report written by journalist Ralph de Toledano; Role of Angel Miolán in the alleged Boschist-Communist conspiracy.

Offers a look on the alleged participation of Communists in the activities of the civil rights movement in the U.S. Criticism regarding the evolution of civil rights to radicalism; Overview of the efforts of Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace to discredit the civil rights movement; Participation of African Americans in radical activities.

The article presents political news briefs for the week of April 20, 1963. Conflict between so-call neutrals and pro-Communist forces in Laos is compared to the conflict in Vietnam. Financial information is presented concerning income tax collection projections by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS). U.S. Democratic Party leadership in the House of Representatives has appropriated funding for anti-recession legislation.

Reports on the violation of the ceasefire in Laos. Withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Thai border in exchange for the withdrawal of Viet Minh forces from Laos; Impression that blame for the violation of the ceasefire in Laos rests entirely on the Communist side; Suggestion that the first myth that has to be dispelled is that of the unilateral violation of the ceasefire; Mention of the first direct contact of Thailand with Communist forces.

Criticizes the imprisonment of North Carolina communist Junius Scales for violating the U.S. Alien and Sedition Law. Background of his association with the communism; Comment on the establishment of the Supreme Court as the sole arbiter of law; Basis for the appeal for the release of Scales from prison.

Examines the risk of an inter-continental war and problem due to Communist empire for the United States. Importance of having a military base in Berlin, Germany for the U.S.; Need for a nuclear establishment in the U.S. to encounter the nuclear war threat of the Soviet Union; Suggested alternatives for the policy of nuclear deterrence for the U.S.; Proposal for the U.S. administration to improve and stabilize its international relations; Views that competition for nuclear weapons between the Soviets and the U.S. would not save the world rather lead to conflicts. INSET: Germanizing Berlin, by C.L. Sulzberger..

Focuses on the international issue of Berlin, West Germany and relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Disadvantages of a bipartisan government in the U.S.; Effects of the majority's view on public policy making and the U.S. Congress; Emergence of Communist groups to oppose the government; Influences of Communists on the political decisions of U.S. presidents; Views of the Soviets and American politicians regarding the political crisis in Berlin; Opinion about the attitude of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower regarding negotiations on Berlin at Geneva convention; Problem for President John F. Kennedy regarding any decision about the Berlin issue with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev; Suggestions for the U.S. and the Soviets to provide peace in Berlin.

Highlights the case of Angela Davis, who was recommended for a two-year appointment as a research scholar with the University of California at Los Angeles, but was untimely dismissed due to her affiliation with the Communist Party. Role played by mass media in publicizing the story; Academic credentials of Davis; Allegations leveled against Davis by the Board of Regents in order to dismiss her; Opinion of Davis that the Regents are guilty of racism and have an aversion to political militants, and especially those on the Left; Status of Davis in light of various judgments of the Supreme Court; Obligations that a Communist knowingly accepts; Questions about academic freedom that have been raised by this case.

Presents an article about the poor conditions of prisoners who were arrested for their alleged communist association in Indonesia under the administration of President Makam Suharto in 1968. Complaints raised by the prisoners on food conditions in prison camps; Estimates of the number of prisoners as of July 1968; Provision of minimal medical care to prisoners; Examples of abuses committed against several political prisoners; Criticisms against the anti-communism strategy of Suharto.

Discusses American poetry. Views of the Humanists and the Communists schools of critics regarding closing of an epoch in American poetry; Significance of Romantic personality in American poetry; Overview of American verse since 1900; Reflection of politics in poetry; Emphasis on French poet, Thibaut IV's, understanding of American poetry; Analysis of the work of poets of New England; View that the task of poetry is the constant rediscovery of the permanent nature of man; Excerpts of some poems.

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.

Presents information on the protest of the Socialists and Communists in Chicago, Illinois against the declaration made by the Chicago Emergency Relief Commission regarding relief for the unemployed. Reference to a demonstration in which Karl Borders, Chicago secretary of the League for Industrial Democracy, had intended to confine it to obtaining the withdrawal of the relief cut; Information on a meeting in New England Congregational Church which proved to have been staged as a big Communist show; Details about a hunger march organized on October 31, 1932; Withdrawal of the relief cut by the Commission; Comments of the editors of the journal "Communist" regarding the protest of the Chicago unemployed united-front.

Focuses on the emergence of the organizations of the unemployed in the U.S. Establishment of this network of unemployed groups with the purpose of fighting hunger on behalf of ten million Americans; Role of the refusal of the government to recognize the right of the workers either to employment or maintenance, in the establishment of these organizations; Organization of the unemployed by the Communists in various cities in the U.S. two months after the Wall Street crash; Information on a joint demonstration organized by the Chicago Unemployed Council and the Workers' Committee on unemployment, to highlight the effectiveness of the mass demonstrations when it arises from immediate needs of the situation.

Presents an account of the author's visit to Kentucky, to provide relief to the striking coal miners. Distribution of several tons of food to the miners; Conclusion that neither the miners nor those who attempt to help them have any legal rights in the Kentucky coal regions; Reasons for the continuation of class struggle in Kentucky; Factors responsible for the disorganization of the coal industry; Average weekly wages of a coal miner; Forms of deductions in the wages; Life and standard of living of coal operators; Lack of any central wares house where relief supplies can be stored and regularly distributed; Fear of the coal operators to announce that openly that no food can be given to the miners; Claim of the operators that they are doing their own relief work through the Red Cross; Propaganda by the operators that National Miners Union is connected with the Communist party; Announcement of the operators that miners, like communists do not have any constitutional rights; Arrest of the friends of the author, who were found talking with the miners.

Focuses on the circumstances of the alleged crime and of subsequent trial with reference to the Freight-Car case involving eight young Negroes sentenced to death for alleged assaults upon two young white women in the United States. Description of the incidence; Report that the day of the trial was celebrated like a festival; Testimonies related to the case; Report that the case had attracted the attention of an intelligent Negro doctor who brought it to the attention of the Interdenominational Alliance of Colored Ministers and they raised money and appealed to Stephen R. Roddy, a attorney to defend the boys; Interest of Communists in the case; Involvement of several organization in the case; View of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that the Communists were ruining the boys' chances by adding anti-Red prejudice to race prejudice; Collective action of the Communists; Information on the hearings for the new trials.

Focuses on the author's experience of working in automobile companies such as Ford Motor Co. Recycling of automobiles by the Ford Motors; Information on the stages of the production and sub assembly conveyor; Role of Communists in solving the issues of the auto workers; Report that when there's an eviction about to take place, the people notify the Unemployment Council and the Communists go around and wait till the sheriff has gone and then move all the furniture back into the house; Organization of the Flint strike by the Communists; View that auto workers need democratic organs of education to show the workers the real nature of the capitalist system.

Focuses on an announcement made by communists in the U.S. on their intention of leading a hunger march. Agreement of the city administration to receive a delegation at City Hall; Acceptance of the request to allow Communists to make speeches from City Hall's steps; Environment created in Town Hall for the demonstration; Details of participation of Negroes in the march for the support of unemployment insurance; Speech given by a Negro editor, who was arrested for circulating radical leaflets; Demand of F.G. Biedenkapp, principal spokesperson, for unemployment insurance, free gas, free clothing and the use of public hall for meeting.

Presents letters from Robin and David Kinkead addresses to their family regarding their experience in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Criticism of the author on the opera "Boris Godounov"; Description of the weather in the country; Meeting of the author of a young Communist girl.

Focuses on the position of the contemporary progressive in the political climate in the U.S. Need for radicals and progressives to banish communism in the country; Importance of an opposition to communists; Effect of extreme illiberalism on the stand of liberals.

Presents information on several political and economic development in the whole world. Information on the nationalist movement in protest against the injustice of the Treaty of Versailles and hardships imposed by the reparations payments in Germany; Safety of the loan depends on the maintenance of political stability in Germany; Intention of Tory Republicans to support the Democratic senatorial candidate, Gilbert M. Hitchcock; Information on a case of Italian Communist who arrested in the U.S. for making a Communist speech; Appeal made by distinguished men and women from several countries for the abolition of military training.

Focuses on political and economic events in the U.S. Reasons for hostility of the American government against the Soviet Union; Statement made by U.S. Secretary of State, Arthur M. Hyde that the Soviet government through the All-Russian Textile Syndicate, has been selling wheat short on the Chicago market; Comments on the plight of American farmers; Information on a new policy of the Soviet Union; Trading of wheat in the world market below the cost of production; Comment on the end of civil war in China; Description of a case of Guido Serio, an Italian Communist now resident in the U.S.

Decision of the California Supreme Court in the case of Warren K. Billings, who is serving a life sentence for participating in the throwing of a bomb during the Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, California, in 1916; Results of a survey conducted by the U.S. Children's Bureau, to investigate the problems of child labor in the country; Remarks of judge Marcus Kavanagh of Chicago, on capital punishment; Announcement of the creation of one-man city planning department, by New York City Mayor Jimmie Walker; Acceptance of the ordinance which grants a permanent franchise to the present traction companies of Chicago, Illinois, by majority voters of the city; Allegations of New York Communists that two of their members namely Gonzalo Gonzales and Alfred Luro have been shot by the metropolitan police; Conditions under which Italy will participate in the Pan-European Federation, as told by Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.

The article presents information that after the liberation in China, all Chinese industries were told to carry on as usual under the old management. Capitalists who had fled to Hongkong were encouraged to return. Suddenly a change of policy was announced. The capitalists have been given a breathing space. The reason for this may be twofold. First, the communists probably realize that their earlier policy was too severe and that trade was being strangled. The second reason may be psychological: that it is good policy to give capitalists a crack of the whip and then ease up so that they may feel thankful for small mercies.

The article discusses communism in China. The Communist Party is in full power in China today. It is strong in North and Central China. In South China a traditional spirit of revolt against central authority has been aroused by the roughshod rule of Communists from the North. Yet no organized opposition confronts the Communists as they once confronted the Kuomintang. By ripping up the railroads they were able to isolate the Nationalist Government. Today for all the guerrilla bands, the railroads are operating again.

The article focuses on the growing role of the United Nation (UN) in the international politics. The author says that there is more hope for the UN today, and there is more hope for Korea and the other imperiled areas of the world, than there was before the Communist tanks trampled down the barriers of the 38th Parallel. For now blood is being spilled in the name of the UN, and sometimes man learns from his agonies. Out of the agonies of World War II, a UN was born. In the peace that was no peace, the UN was too often left to languish. Too often the UN ran into difficulties, and too often it stopped.

Traces the history of Russian people and views of the American public towards them. Views of the author about communists; Attitude of the American people towards communists in the Soviet Union; Aspects of Russian history as understood by the people of the U.S.; Reaction of the Russian people to impulses; Period during which Russian society had maximum exposure to Western influence; Impact of the western civilization on the Soviet Union; Consideration of Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century as the greatest of all critics of contemporary Western civilization; Attitude of Russian intellectuals towards western culture; Failure of liberal development in the Soviet Union to improve socio-economic conditions of the Soviet Union; Causes of the collapse of Russian liberalism as a political movement; Impact of the Russian Revolution on its economy;Features of concentration camps system used in Kremlin; Contribution of the contemporary Russian public, in the fields of art and literature.

The article presents U.S. news briefs. Several senators questioned accusations made by senator Joseph McCarthy regarding communist activity. Senator Robert S. Kerr introduced a legislative bill regarding the regulation of natural gas prices. The U.S. Army eliminated a quota system for black army recruits.

Focuses on a trial of political leader Alger Hiss in the U.S. Information on the academic and political career of Hiss; Description of his tenure as the president of the organization Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Attitude of the U.S. Government towards Hiss; Details of his appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on charge of being a Communist; Information on the testimony of Hiss; Role of Whittaker Chambers, a senior editor of the journal Time in the trial.

Presents information on several political and economic issues in the U.S. Adoption of the customary Senate stalling devices by the House of Representatives; Efforts to pass Fair Employment Practice Committee bill; Statement by U.S. Steel president Benjamin Fairless that his company's price increases averaging $3.82 a ton; Comments on the National Farmers Union which is paving the way for North Dakota's two Senate votes to move from the Republican to the Democratic; Information on the amendment version of the Displaced Persons bill; Rejection of applications of two Ohio newspapers by the Federal Communications Commissions to enter the local radio field; Efforts to check Communist expansion by a Western Europe; Information on the political climate of France.

Focuses on various political developments in Germany. Votes given by the majority of Western Germans against Communism in elections; Report that the U.S. was pleased with results of the election; Reasons why the British Labour Government was not pleased by a Western Germany run by a combination of the Christian Democrats, the Free German Party and the German Party; View that the results of the election was a defeat of Communist hopes; Opinion that the "unity" of a Rightist Western Germany may turn out to be a disservice to the unity of Western Europe as a whole; Apprehensions of Frenchmen of the Left about a "deal" between a nominally Third Force France and an openly Rightist Western Germany.

Focuses on red-baiting in the U.S. colleges, while discussing the book "Communism and Academic Freedom," which is the formal record of the University of Washington tenure cases. Discussion of a law enacted by the legislature of Washington in 1947, according to which no salary should be paid to any state employee who is a member of an organization that advocates the overthrow of the U.S. government; Establishment of a committee on un-American activities by the Washington legislature to inquire specifically into the activities of the Communist Party; Argument against the belief that membership in the Communist Party paralyzes the critical sense or produces bad teaching.

Focuses on the condition of workers in Italy. Organization of labor into trade-union federations affiliated to the powerful Confederazione Generale dei Lavoratori Italiani (CGIL); Predominance of Communist influence in Italy's trade-union movement; Organization of the CGIL's seven million members in the Federation of Farm Workers and Sharecroppers; Reasons for success of the Communists in maintaining their influence over the main body of Italian organized labor; Existence of vast unemployment in the country; Description of condition of industrial workers in Turin and Milan; Presentation of a program by Communists for economic betterment to Italian workers; Attitude of the government parties in the CGIL toward the dismantling of factories.

Focuses on the closing of the liberal newspaper "Record" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Effect of the closure that left hundreds of its employees unemployed; Information on J. David Stern, the owner of the newspaper; Blame of the closure on the communists who allegedly control the Newspaper Guild; Details of the attempt made by the Guild to save the newspaper.

Focuses on the political developments in Yugoslavia during the regime of Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito. Information that the real power in the country is the "Big Seven," members of the Communist Party; Statement that in addition to the "Big Seven," there is a whole army of Communist first, second and third-class "guides"; Statement that Yugoslavia's new constitution is a model of liberalism; Statement that the non-Communist members of Tito's government soon found out that they had been cheated; Claim that the Tito revolution which brought the Communists to power is a vertical revolution of the peripheral peoples of Yugoslavia, the most backward and poorest in the country.