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Focuses on the Disarmament Conference which was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Information that the conference gives Germany the theoretical equality of armament with the other Great Powers; View that the conference aim to impress the United States that Europe really is setting its house in order and is therefore entitled to drastic reduction or cancellation of the war debts; Claim that despite the seeming evidence to the contrary, the statesmen assembled at Geneva are not a pack of simpletons.

The article focuses on issues related to the Council of Europe meeting which was held recently in Strasbourg, France. These issues relates to the defense of Europe and the Schuman Plan related to the conflict between the France-Benelux and the British positions. A need to give Western Europe the force required to stop an eventual advance of the Red Army was felt. Moreover, there was absence of a consistent, aggressive, democratic policy that gives an air of futility to the Strasbourg deliberation. Take Spain, for instance. A hastily drafted motion expressing in very diplomatic language the Assembly's disapproval of the decision of the American Senate to lend $100,000,000 to Franco immediately collected many signatures from even moderate representatives of several countries.

This article presents information on the manifesto issued by the international communist congress after its meeting on 2 March, 1919. The said meeting was attended by thirty-two delegates representing eighteen Communist or Left Socialist parties, together with representatives of fifteen organizations of Europe and Asia who attended the meeting in an advisory capacity. The manifesto appeals to labor men and women to fight against imperialist barbarity, against monarchy, against the privileged classes, against the bourgeois state and bourgeois property, against all kinds and forms of social and national oppression.

This article focuses on the condition of Europe during war. Two years have elapsed since the European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) first began to talk about rearmament, but the actual state of defense preparedness in continental Western Europe is not much better now than when the Treaty was under negotiation in 1948. Mutual Defense Assistance Program (MDAP). There have been many meetings of the NATO Council, many journeys of foreign ministers, defense ministers and chiefs-of-staff, back and forth across the Atlantic, innumerable conferences of military and economic specialists.

Reports on the annual meeting of the Second International in Europe. Reunion of organized working class movement; Translation of socialism into a practical program; Exercise of revolutionary attraction espoused by Russian leader Vladimir Ilich Lenin.

The report that certain international financial interests have for some time been exerting themselves to bring about peace and have been holding secret meetings in Switzerland for that purpose, has again attracted public attention in England. The matter obtained contained the following statement: It is learned from an unimpeachable source that the secret conference of international financiers which recently took place in Switzerland was inspired by somewhat different motives from, those which were ascribed to it at the time. Acting purely in the interests of the great capitalists of all countries, it aimed, above all, at an immediate peace such as would arrest the growth of international Socialism and the rising tide of revolution throughout Europe.

Focuses on the implications for the world of two political developments in Europe, the proposed Austro-German customs union and the newly revealed disagreement between France and Germany regarding naval tonnage. View that, on France's reaction with anger to the proposed Austro-German customs union, France does not wish to see any development which threatens their own hegemony over the European Continent; View that the disagreement between France and Germany regarding naval tonnage is a trick by France to prod the British to refrain from being neutral--or perhaps even to take Germany's side--in the pending discussions over the Austro-German proposal; Comments on Western European countries' decision to impose embargos over the Soviet Union's exports to these countries; Assumptions on the success of a world conference on limitation of armament to be held under the auspices of the League of Nations in 1932; View that if France and Italy continue at loggerheads on their naval tonnage negotiations, the prospect of failure in the League conference next year becomes proportionately greater; Situation of disarmament in Europe including in Germany.

This article focuses on the political developments in Great Britain. The British Labor Party will hold its annual conference in December, and until then there will be continuous discussion as to the policy the party should adopt. This is a question which affects not only the British but progressive elements everywhere, for the entire democratic future of Europe may be determined by the stand British Labor takes. It is the only force in Great Britain capable of opposing the reactionary - tendencies of the English Conservatives.