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Less than a week after Adolf Hitler's surprise attack on Russia the German press began to beat the drums for the holy war against Bolshevism. The call was echoed in local Nazi papers all over Europe. Varying according to local temperament and circumstances, appeals of many kinds were used to arouse the crusading spirit. Wherever the Germans found that racial, social, or religious motives were insufficient to assure the success of the recruiting campaign they resorted to promises and threats. In occupied France, for example, the recruiting agents promised each man who joined the volunteer legion that one or more of his relatives held as prisoners of war would be set free.

The article focuses on the case of U.S. government employees John Peters and Otto Nathan. Neither had the remotest connection with the military or the diplomatic security measures taken by this country. Neither aspired to any such connection. Peters' job was to hold in check the mange and the colic. The charge brought against him was that at some time in the past he had joined the communists. As for Nathan, all he wanted was a, chance to go abroad to check up on some of the papers of the physicist Albert Einstein. Nathan wanted to consult certain people who had worked with, Einstein in Europe.

Focuses on problems and progress in carrying out the U.S. military policy in Germany. View that the Germans' discredited financial, industrial and militarist leadership would take every opportunity to promote and exploit disagreement among the Allies; Discussion of German economy that was to be decentralized for the purpose of eliminating the excessive concentration of economic power exemplified by cartels, syndicates, trusts and other monopolistic arrangements; Information on the first propaganda effort was toward restoring the German economy along its prewar lines, with emphasis on heavy industry; Recommendations of some U.S. experts regarding increasing food production and expanding light industry while prohibiting unusually large rehabilitation of heavy industry, machinery and tools; Report that German heavy or capital-goods industries were actually recovering more rapidly than light industries; Effect of the failure to reform German agriculture on the food supplies of the country; Statement made by U.S. President Herbert Hoover regarding the recovery of German light industry and agriculture that must depend upon reviving heavy industry; Fact that the Germans themselves were put in charge of allocating coal and scarce raw materials to industries within the U.S. zone; Description of a report issued by the U.S. War Department regarding curtailment or postponement of the program to reorganizing the major cartels and combines that had dominated the German economy; Need of the power to guide and channel the production and distribution of potentially competing products; Information on how Nazi Germany organized the key industries and resources of a large part of Europe into a continent-wide, German-dominated economic system.

This article discusses various issues related to the U.S. military forces. Public relations is among the newest of U.S. military weapons. Although military commanders and the War Department issue battle reports that were printed or elaborated by the press during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, the U.S. military service did not issue its first formal press release until 1904. U.S. spends 59 per cent of its more than $80 billion budget on national security every year. However, the U.S. President says that they should guard against unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex.

The article focuses on secrecy in scientific and technological progress. Serious technological secrecy is relatively recent, which has emerged sharply as a product of the technological revolution. When society became deeply dependent on technological development, the military organization increased its dependence on science and technology. In the modern world, the important areas of science have military implications, and under the present policies these areas must fall under the military secrecy. Since more and more of the scientific activity is coming within the purview of secrecy, the need for appraisal of the effects of secrecy on the scientific stature, progress and national security becomes of increasing importance.

The article focuses on the role of newspapers while depicting the status of war. Many of newspapers seem to have instructed their headline writers to use the right end of the telescope when viewing the successes but to reverse it when looking the achievements of opposite side. That is one reason why the general public lacks full appreciation of the extremely serious position in which the United Nations are at present placed. The remedy is not lectures on the folly of complacency, it is less distorted news, more facts and above all more authoritative explanations of what the facts which can be published mean.

Discusses the military strength of the U.S. in the face of rising tension among various countries. View that the U.S. must take an account of the military strength of other states; Description about the essential features of a naval base; Display of a map showing American military and naval bases; Fact that the North American seaboard possesses two principal naval bases, those of Norfolk and New York; Opinion that the key position for the West Coast defense is Hawaii; Argument pertaining to the battleship program on a strength of sixteen ships for the Pacific; Description about the defense budget of the U.S.

The British government proposal comes down firmly on the side of Indian unity, discarding Pakistan as economically and politically unworkable and as a serious danger to any scheme of national defense. The proposal, however, gives full recognition to communal aspirations and rights and provides for a large measure of provincial autonomy. The Labor Party has shown that in the field of imperial affairs it can act in accordance with its basic socialist traditions and can also muster wise statesmanship to meet a vastly complicated situation.

Argues that the crisis provoked by the European war is putting the mental and moral fiber of the American people to a severe test. Discussion of the issue of peace and war and its relation to national policy, interests and ideals; No indication as yet of any effective consensus of opinion; Prevailing agitation for and against increased armament; Argument that it is not whether the American people are armed or unarmed, but it is the spirit in which and the purposes for which the burden of armament is incurred.

This article presents views of former Minnesota Governor and U.S. Presidential candidate Harold Stassen on United States military policy. As an intelligent and informed American he cannot fail to be aware that the American constitution makes it perfectly clear that the President is the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. military forces and is also responsible for the formulation and conduct of foreign policy. The clarity of these sections of the constitution is unmistakable. The rationale behind them (maintenance of civilian control over the military, the establishment of a unitary authority in the conduct of foreign policy) is well known, their importance to the preservation of constitutional processes has rarely been questioned.

Discusses the issue of national security as defined in the situation of America or France or England during the first two decades of the 1900s. Importance for a country to announced its intention to use its power against an opposing country; Observation that for the United States to furnish ammunition, guns and materials to the French or British armies for payment was for peace while to do so without payment meant war; Significance of the maintenance of neutrality of telling the world that U.S. resources were available in any war for any purpose to those who can afford the price; Importance of establishing a policy in military relations with other countries in times of war.

Focuses on the military policy of the U.S. Opposition to the proposal in the U.S. Congress to keep drafted men and National Guardsmen in the army; Reason for adoption of conscription in the army; Purpose of the army to defend the country in case the Allies lose the war; Task of the army to defend coast and anti-aircraft units along four borders; Need for a body of men trained to constitute sizable expeditionary force and operate in any region in North and South America; Recommendation to hold the present draftees in the army as long as they are needed.

Focuses on the disapproval of Japan on the military policy of the U.S. against Vietnam and Communist China. Information on the large percentage of the Japanese public who express their antipathy toward the war in Vietnam; Accusation of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, William Bundy, that Japan underestimates the threat that Chinese Communist domination of South and Southeast Asia would present to Japan's own interest; Refutation stated by U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Edwin O. Reischauer, on charges of communist infiltration; Conflict between the U.S. and Japanese press due to the Vietnam war issue; Remarks stated by Reischauer during a speech that many Japanese feel that U.S. bases in Japan and Okinawa are more a threat to their security rather than an insurance policy against aggression.

The article reports on the disclosure by U.S. Foreign Minister Robert Schuman that America, Great Britain and France would confer on Mediterranean defense. The minister stressed that the meeting aimed to discuss military and security issues, with emphasis on how to strengthen what is regarded as the right flank of the forces of the Atlantic Pact. Proposals mainly focused on finding ways on how to fully protect Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey and to enable troops to move freely through the seas and straits of that area.

The author reflects on the significance of strengthening the military and naval power in the U.S. in assuring national security. He contemplates on the real essence on the messages declared by most spokespersons in the country including President Herbert Hoover regarding the requisites of proportional strength in military and naval sectors. In addition, he also regards on another method that will provide the country with national security, that is, through abolishing battleship.

Deals with the expansion of the bases of the U.S. Navy in 1964. Importance of the expansion to the relations of the country with foreign nations; Impact of the improvements in the agency on the national security of the republic; Implications of the move of the armed forces for the worldwide spreading of Communism.

Focuses on the policies of the National Defense Advisory Commission (NDAC) in the U.S. Comments on the criticism of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Information on the acquisition of shoes, underpants, handkerchiefs, toilet articles, mosquito netting and plumbing equipment by NDAC; Description of relations between New Dealers and NDAC; Fulfilment of NDAC officials' demands; Reasons for delays in programs of the War Department.

Comments on a report about the position and tactics of the U.S. in Strategic Arms Limitation Talks published in the 1971 issue of "New York Times." Threats posed by the report to the national security of the country; Efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to identify the source of the information; Assumptions concerning the reason behind the publication of the news.

Focuses on the involvement of college and university students in political demonstrations. Opinion that college undergraduates endorse a strong military policy in Southeast Asia even more heartily than does the American public generally; Origin of a vigorous group known as Victory in Vietnam Association that originated at the University of California, Los Angeles; Principle of the VIVA students and instructors to support Americans fighting in Vietnam.

Comments on various issues related to modern weapons. Reasons why the issues of strategy and policy are never mere derivatives of complicated technical facts; Information on fundamental changes being made in military policy by the U.S. government; Information on the Polaris and Minuteman weapon systems; View that the Polaris-Minuteman seems tied to the idea of "pushbutton warfare"; Significance of the Maginot Line.