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The Italian papers have published between April 29, 1927 and May 17, 1927 of this year summary and fragmentary, often incomprehensible, notices of a trial which was taking place at the Court of Assizes at Chieti, the same court at which was conducted, a year ago, the mockery of a trial for the murder of Giacomo Matteotti. Several English and American papers have published the fact that all the accused have been acquitted. This acquittal is one of the most recent acts in a juridical farce which has lasted for a year and a half, and which is now approaching an end. It is a farce that follows upon a tragedy of blood and death.

The article focuses on second-trial strategies with an example of a court case. The courtroom audience braced itself for a shock as the jury filed in shortly after the midday recess. The old Judge had made it plain that the twelve who were to decide the fate of Alger Hiss, the defendant, were not coming in merely to ask for further information, as they had done twice before. By this time extremely few among them, reportedly, the defendant himself still expected an acquittal. The nature of the jury's several requests for additional information made that only a remote possibility.

The article focuses on the issues concerning the acquittal of Teamsters' union vice president James R. Hoffa at the American Federation of Labor (AFL). It mentions that the AFL and the Congress of Industrial Organization's (CIO) campaign against racketeering has triggered a civil war when Hoffa was acquitted from allegation of an attempted espionage at Senate's racket investigating team. Members are convinced to believe that the AFL-CIO led campaign had used violence and manipulated deals.

The article presents information on political developments from around the world. The article presents information on the disregard of American officers in the Philippines. The latest example of such disregard arises out of the court-martial and acquittal of U.S. armed forces officer James S. Petit. The article further discusses Russia's withdrawal of legations and troops from Pekin to Tientsin. The situation at Pekin was becoming ridiculous, provided there was neither the intention nor the ability to overrun China and hold her in subjection, divided or undivided.

This article focuses on the revolutionaries of Spain's against dictatorship. One have surely read about the various attempts of Spanish revolutionaries to get back into Spain across the French frontier. Several weeks ago about seventy revolutionaries tried to get across at a small town called Vera, over a mountain pass. Well, there was a skirmish between the revolutionaries and the gendarmes, and several were killed on both sides. Soldiers arrived and the revolutionaries were arrested. As the authorities did not feel like executing all seventy, four were selected to be scapegoats, but the proofs against them were so slight that even the military tribunal acquitted them for want of proof, want of proof that it was just these four who had shot the gendarmes.

Comments on the trial of the policemen involved in the murder of John Barkoski, a farmer and miner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Astonishment of the public to the not guilty verdict of the jury; Condemnation of the verdict by various professors of the University of Pittsburgh; Acquittal of police officers; Demand of the newspapers and the community on the elimination of the system responsible for the Barkoski murder; Request for immediate trial of the three men on the remaining count of involuntary manslaughter.

Focuses on political and social issues around the world. Proclamation against admission of Red China to the United Nations by the Committee of One Million; Request made by educator and psychologist Kenneth Clark to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to quit emphasizing school integration and concentrate instead on quality education for African American pupils; Reason behind the vindication of six sturdy citizens of Mamaroneck, New York; Illustration of the general difficulty of maintaining the guise of diplomatic relations with semi-civilized people in Ghana and Guinea; Reference to the meeting of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with Prime Minister of Yugoslavia Marshal Tito and Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of United Arab Emirates.

Examines the news stories and issues explored by the "Atlanta Constitution" newspaper. Headlines on the alleged communist infiltration into the "New York Times" newspaper; Story on the acquittal of Leon V. Kamin, the Harvard research assistant cited by Senator Joseph McCarthy; Focus of the newspaper on racial segregation.