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The article focuses on the desire to limit or disarm nuclear weapons of U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union to achieve universal peace. The author has cited that a large-scale nuclear war between major powers has been possible of both sides for nuclear destruction. The U.S. has justified that its nuclear weapons would balanced the threat from the Soviet Union. The author noted that the political divisions between communist and non-communist countries has made it impossible to attain peace. British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill has stated that his country has a modest role to achieve peace through promoting disarmament of nuclear weapons.

This article discusses the history of government devolution in Great Britain or United Kingdom. While the United Kingdom is divided for administrative purposes into three kingdoms and a principality, and these again into a number of counties, there have been times in which our rulers have felt the need of some divisions of intermediate size, which may fitly be termed provinces. After the unification of England under Egbert, several of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy remained as Earldoms, some of which lasted until the Norman Conquest. In the south-east of England the approximate boundaries of some of the counties are of great antiquity; these counties are, for the most part, large in area, containing as a rule 1,000,000 acres or more and in many cases they have sub-divided for modern administrative purposes. The sub-division into shires became gradually more common and before the time of the Confessor this system had become general throughout England. William the Conqueror organized his new possessions on this basis, and the County arrangement has remained in use, with some recent modifications, to our day. Nevertheless the need for some divisions of intermediate size was felt even in the Middle Ages. The King's escheators divided the kingdom into two provinces, infra and citra Trentam, while the same areas were used by the Chief Justices in Eyre for the Forest Pleas.

The author presents suggestions for local governmental reform in Great Britain as of April 1966, focusing on the ongoing impact of nineteenth-century two-tier county council and unitary county borough administrative systems. Topics include the administrative challenges arising in regions where urban development has spread across multiple district boundaries, challenges in distributing municipal functions across local authorities, conurbations, and the reorganization of London, England structures in 1965 following the receipt of recommendations from a Royal Commission. The potential roles of councils, planning boards, and elected councilors are described.

The author discusses local government structures in Great Britain as of April 1966. According to the author, administrative bodies should be broken into efficient small units, but problems can arise due to challenges in maintaining democracies at regional levels. Topics include Royal Commissions, the comments of the historian F. W. Maitland concerning the Local Government Act of 1888, the provision of public services to regions with widely divergent populations, and conflict between counties and county boroughs. Potential reforms involving the roles of chief officers and local governments are described.