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The article presents information on a war that resulted due to the massive leak of secret documents in U.S. history. Daniel Ellsberg, a former Pentagon analyst, was reportedly so concerned about his involvement in the Vietnam tragedy that he had conveyed about 40 volumes of an extraordinary Pentagon history of the war to a newspaper. This included 4,000 pages of top secret documents. The first U.S. ground troops were deployed in South Vietnam during the spring of 1965.

One of the strongest arguments advanced for the passage of the Silver Bill, although not made prominent in public debate, was that, if not passed, "the people" would insist on fresh issues of irredeemable paper, and now that it is passed and is awaiting the signature of U.S. President, people are adjured to look at the convention of bedlamites at Toledo, Ohio and to prepare themselves for a tidal-wave of communism and greenback inflation. The proper answer to the Toledo communists and to the Louisville "Courier-Journal," which has been making itself particularly foolish in this business, is that this is as good a time as people shall ever have to "untie the winds and let them fight against the churches." Silver bills, with or without free coinage, are not going to pay mortgages or get people out of debt.

The article reports on Taoist leaders Li Kwei-ying and Chiang Chang-en in Hunan Province in China who were sentenced to death for allegedly preparing paper-made warships and armaments in a vicious attempt to equip an army of the dead and attack the Communist Party. It notes that for Taoist, objects can be passed to the spirit world if paper representations are burned. It says that at first the two were given only eight years but a mass demonstration protested that it was a too light punishment.

The article reports on the documents of Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung during the 1966-1968 Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Accordingly, the document include the secret letters, speeches, and other writings of the great Chinese leader. It notes that the documents, owned by the U.S. State Department, show the interests of Mao Tse-Tsung on proverbs, folk tales, and metaphors.

The article reviews the Italian newspaper "L' Unità."

This article reports on the launch of a scheme of radical finance reform by Herr Rudolf Hilferding, Minister of Finance for the Reich of Germany in 1923. Under the scheme, the Reichsbank will be the only source of issue for paper currency. The scheme will require real-value notes to be secured by a real-value capital levy. Meanwhile, the police in Berlin started a search for foreign currency.

The article features "Le Figaro," a French daily founded in 1826 and published in Paris. The paper considers itself the voice of the Catholic middle class and has been virulently anti-communist. Some time ago, their stance caused the French Communist Party to burn its papers and attack its offices, but such increased their circulation to 400,000. Its managing director is Pierre Brisson, who has refused to resign despite attempts to fire him by the publication's owner, Yvonne Cotnareanu. The paper's history since its founding is described.

Presents information contained in various memorandums dated 1962 to 1966 from the U.S. government. Commitment of the country to the objective of preventing the fall of South Vietnam (SVN) to Communism; Eventualities of the loss of SVN to Communism; International repercussions of projected overt armed intervention in SVN.

The article focuses on Cowles family, their Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. and its newspaper "Minneapolis Tribune and Star." It notes that above any Midwestern rivals, Cowles' papers showcase reporting and editorials that apt to tell how the world is evolving and what time it is. It tells that the Cowles had supported the Berlin, Germany and U.S. hostilities into Korean war, but when Communist China intervened, they urged U.S. to pull back, implying that Korea might be strategically futile.