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Focuses on policy decisions of the National Security Council (NSC) that led the U.S. into war with Vietnam. Reasons for the U.S. to the Communist attack on South Korea in June 1950; Comment on the foreign policy of the U.S. mentioned in NSC paper regarding Vietnam; Reports that in September, 1949, the Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb, about five years ahead of expectations by American and European experts; Observations on the new power relationship in the world, with the U.S. and the Soviet Union occupying the terminal poles.

Focuses on the comment at the U.S. White House upon the publication of the first of the documents called "The Pentagon Papers." Action taken by the U.S. Department of Defense to determine the circumstances surrounding the unauthorized disclosure of classified material; Possible punishment for the breach of laws and regulations governing national security.

Addresses the issue of the United States Senate's confirmation of Otto F. Otepka as a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB). Senators who voted in favor of Otepka; Link between the confirmation of Otepka and the reintroduction of the S.12 bill designed to set up a central security agency for all agencies of government, under the control of SACB; Alleged reasons behind the Senate's confirmation of Otepka's appointment despite Otepka's suspension from the State Department for allegedly passing confidential papers to Julien G. Sourwine, general counsel of the Internal Security subcommittee.

The article presents information on various socio-political developments in the U.S. The Democratic Party in Washington has two heads, the National Committee under Paul Butler and the Congressional party under Senator Lyndon Johnson. After the huge victory last November the Butler national group with its Advisory Council recommended a frontal attack on the Administration and began issuing first rate position papers. The Federal Communications Act of 1934 governs radio and TV and is quite out of date, and the seven-man board of the FCC which administers the act is probably the weakest sister of all the regulatory commissions in Washington. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's handling the steel strike is a move towards Federal regulation.