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The article focuses on historical events involving politics in Nigeria. It also offers a broad biographical account of the country's first Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who in 1957 prepared his country for its October 1, 1960 independence from Great Britain. According to the author, for Abubakar's crucial role in Nigeria's advance to independence, Britain has heaped him with honors and his native admirers hail him as "The Black Rock of Nigeria."

Images play as important a role as guns in the Nigerian civil war. The Biafran secessionists, among Africa's most sophisticated peoples, have known from the beginning that their chances for success depended as much, on evoking world sympathy as on holding back the federal army. Now, after twenty months of war, it is clear that the Biafrans have been far more adept at propaganda than soldiering. If they survive in some sovereign form, they will owe it to their skill with images. Part of the Biafran success in public relations stems from the federal Nigerian Government's failure at it.

The article focuses on the violent uprisings in Hungary for national independence. It states that when Party Secretary Erno Gero announced the lack of relaxation for Communist control, the peace demonstration by the Hungarian students became incensed. It also mentions that the Communist Party of Hungary had disintegrated, the country's army was defected, and the Revolution has been restricted between Russians and Hungarians.

The article reports on the Congo crisis whose major players have shown some shift toward moderation as the United Nations (U.N.) shows a new restraint in July 1962. Katanga President Moise Tshombe is promoting the importance of reunification with the rest of the Congo on terms that would give his province some autonomy. Acting U.N. Secretary General U Thant also downplayed the use of force against Katanga.

The article presents the role of John Wheeler-Bennett in encouraging the growth of separatist movement in Bavaria and Baden. According to Wheeler-Bennett, the Bavarian forest and mountains are still so crowded with bandits that the roads through them ate very unsafe even by day. Some of these men are soldiers who refuse to accept the surrender and shoot our fellows whenever they have a chance. On some such occasions pitched battles take place, and there are very few survivors. One or two quite prominent Nazi leaders are in the mountains, and hold up the traffic as though they were robber barons.

This article focus on the issue of Separatism in Quebec after Daniel Johnson's Union Nationale had scored a narrow upset victory over the Liberal government of Premier Jean Lesage. In recent years Johnson has become an advocate of Associate Statehood for Quebec, a more sophisticated brand of the Separatism espoused by young romantics and some professors in Quebec's universities He is the first Quebec premier to endorse such a doctrine. The federal government wonders how far Johnson will press his main election plank, his demand that Quebec take over all personal income, corporation and succession taxes collected by Ottawa in Quebec.

Presents information on the current political and social condition of Germany. Demonstration of the Republicans at Dusseldorf; View that the anti-Separatists have behind them the whole Rhineland population; Need for creation of a Rhineland Republic, including not only the left bank, but the Ruhr as well; Importance of the Rhineland Republic to French policy; Opinion that Berlin is unable to insure Rhinelanders unless they meet the French requirement operating the Ruhr industries.

The article discusses the efforts of Portugal to keep its colonies with a focus on the burning of St. John the Baptist fort in Dahomey and the pillaging of villages in Angola. It states that dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar's plans of African reforms which can give way for independence of its colonies were countered by his plan to regain the disputed fort. It adds that Portugal's decision to hold on to its colonies borders on folly because it cannot finance its colonial wars.

The article reports on the political condition in Congo 18 months after the declaration of its independence. Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula has made an order to his army under the leadership of General Joseph Mobutu to carry out a police action in the secessionist province of Katanga in an attempt to put the province back under the central government's authority. However, it notes that the troops of Mobutu have failed to penetrate Katanga.

The article focuses on the problems faced by correspondents during the media coverage of the Biafran secession conflict in Nigeria. As stated, James Wilde was 1,000 miles away in Kinshasa, the Congo, was forced to assess the situation on the basis of long experience in the war and previous interviews with Biafran Leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. It also states that correspondents who attempted to drive to Enugu, the original secessionist capital, were turned back by Nigerian army roadblocks.

The article discusses the political condition of India, after the end of Britishers rule in the country, in 1947. It states that the atmosphere in India is similar to the atmosphere during the British raj, as the Indian government is not able to maintain peace in the country, which was expected after the independence. It mentions that the government announced a share of the economy to private enterprise, however, foreign investors won't be moving in, until the political disintegration is sorted.

Comments on the decision of Canadian leader Pierre Trudeau to finally act against the Front de Libération de Québec, a group of French separatist terrorists, as of November 17, 1970. Career record of Trudeau; Decision of Trudeau to reject Tory demands that Canada impose some immigration standards to reduce the influx of U.S. draft dodgers into Canada; Reason why Trudeau finally acted against the group.

The article reports on John Caldwell Calhoun, a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina, who had conceived the idea of an independent position for that State some time previous to the passage of the 'nullification ordinance' in November, 1832. As reported, Calhoun was an inspiration to the secessionists of 1860-61. His followers asserted that this plot did not involve any contest for political power in the administration of public affairs.

The article discusses the issue concerning the rebellion in 1862. It notes the exemplification of the position held by Free State secessionists, Breckinridge Democrats, rose-water conservatives, and other varieties of Northern branch of Southern treason in an article imitated by Richmond Whig. It also cites the conflict between freedom and slavery. Moreover, it explores the domination of Normans among their Saxon countrymen in political vassalage in England.