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This article focuses on the democratic nationality. In Europe the idea of national polity is most nearly approached in the British Constitution; where, though the forms of royalty are still maintained, Parliament is omnipotent; and the voice of the. Commons, swollen by the voice of popular assemblies outside of Parliament, makes the nation felt as a power, though the people are still limited in suffrage, and though land, office, and social consideration are largely monopolized by the nobility. In Germany the full realization of nationality is still hindered by vicious and cumbersome political divisions, making the states a pasture ground for petty princes; while France vibrates from the extreme of popular sovereignty to that of imperial absolutism. Nevertheless the tendency of the modern period of society with which we stand connected is toward nationalization, and against either a feudal federation or a despotic centralization.

The struggle between fascism and communism in Europe has raised the question whether the democracies should passively view this struggle from the sidelines or meet the challenge of aggressive dictatorships even at the risk of war. Spain's experience proves that a policy of non-intervention, unless strictly enforced, plays into the hands of potential war-makers. The pacific nations in their desire to avoid war observe the restrictions, while the dictatorships disregard them. France and Great Britain have sought to justify this policy on the ground that the non-intervention agreement, with all its loopholes, has so far prevented the war from spreading beyond the confines of Spain.

Presents several letters to the editor, on political conditions of the U.S. Role of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, in restoring democracy at Princeton, New Jersey; Views of Europe, on political conditions of the U.S.

Focuses on political developments in the world. Information on the need of a program for the domestic development of atomic energy in the U.S. so that it is able to fulfill the responsibilities to the world; Discussion on the program provided by the May-Johnson bill that is not able to provide an efficient domestic control program; Emphasis on the provision of the bill which states that the Administrator must keep the Assistant Administrator informed i.e. the Army, as administrator, must keep the Navy, as assistant administrator, informed; Discussion on the plight of the Jews after the Second World War; Information on the so-called question that whether or not Palestine and the creation of a Jewish state, as demanded by the Zionist movement, is the solution to the problems faced by Jews in Europe; Reason why the reconversion program of U.S. President Harry S. Truman is failing is the decrepit state of the U.S. governmental machinery; Comment of Senator James Byrnes on the main difficulty in discussing the reorganization bill of 1939; Information on the political vacuum created by the collapse of Japan and Dutch unpreparedness for taking over governmental and military control that was filled by the Indonesian nationalists; Discussion of the French national elections that not only forecast a stronger democratic government in France than before the war, but also give a boost to economic union with Great Britain and Western Europe on a basis of democratic socialism; The conversations between President Chiang Kai-shek of China and the Communist leader General Mao Tse-tung, have led to certain broad agreements which seem to assure that there will be no civil war in China; Discussion of the maintenance of the dictatorship in Spain against foreign pressure, and the U.S. foreign-policy that was taken as a sign that the Spanish people could continue their freedom under the progressive regime which saved them from chaos.

The unexpected and decisive victory for woman suffrage in New York is reason for the most heartfelt rejoicing. Democracy has taken a great step forward, all the more gratifying because it has occurred in war time. The Empire State, it was felt, would be the last to surrender. Conservatism, plus the German-American vote, plus the influence wielded by the liquor interests, would, it was believed, make this the last State north of Mason and Dixon's Line to accept this notable reform. But the victory is here, stunning in its surprise, far-reaching in its influence, for it breaks the backbone of the Northern opposition and will have a tremendous effect not only throughout the U.S., but in Europe as well.

The article argues that the fall of 10 European democracies in the late 1930s sparked the Americanism movement, which started in June 1940. It enumerates factors that motivate the swing towards Americanism, including the ongoing military conscription, National Defense Committees, and the playing up of Americanism in the popular culture involving the press, movies, theater, radio and books. The article also narrates how several U.S. companies are changing their advertising to patriotic themes.

This article focuses on the political developments in various parts of the world. There are signs that Labor is beginning to realize its interest in the question of a national expansion which would bring within the limits of the United States millions of people of inferior Asiatic races, at a time when many are insisting that the country already suffers from too large an infusion of the inferior races of Europe, and when there are rigorous laws against the admission of the Chinese. The most striking feature of the very impressive meeting of the New York bar in Carnegie Hall last Friday was the speech of Bourke Cockran, with its graphic picture of what bossism is and what it means in a democracy.

This article discusses the books "Plot and Counterplot in Central Europe," by M.W. Fodor, and "I Knew Hitler. The Story of a Nazi Who Escaped the Blood-Purge," by Kurt G.W. Lüdecke. It is significant that what emerges from Fodor's book is the picture of a new Europe in the making rather than of a dying, suicidal Europe. These plots and counter-plots seem to be the action and pains of rebirth. The antagonism, fascism versus democracy, is not decisive, since both are only different political forms and methods of the same economic order.

Focuses on various developments related to the civil war in Europe. Struggle between the inheritors of the French Revolution and the military-bureaucratic class in France; Possibility of setting up a Fourth French Republic; Struggle of the Italians to drive out Nazi conquerors; Problems with which the Moscow conference will have to deal at the very peril of Europe's future; Achievement of peace in Europe through democracy.

The facts indicate that the Swedes have turned the coldest of cold shoulders to every invitation to join the "Nordic circle" and have found a way, in the field of the arts, to give an overwhelming vote of confidence to democracy. The German Ministry of Propaganda has spared neither effort nor money to crowd out the cultural influence of the Western democracies. A veritable horde of cultural emissaries---officials, writers, movie stars, university professors--has descended upon Sweden. The atrocities Committed by the Nazis in occupied Europe, especially in neighboring Norway, are publicly condemned from all Swedish pulpits, and congregations are exhorted to pray for their tortured brethren of Israel's tribe.

This article focuses on the impact of Hitlerism in Germany as well as in rest of Europe. In Central Europe, the old heart of the storm, the old international pivot Hitlerism has produced its most suggestive results so far. There is confusion amounting almost to chaos in the politics of the Danube basin since the advent of Adolf Hitler. Germans in Hungary are Nazis when they are not Jews. Even the Swabians in Rumania and the semi-Germans in Bukovina feel the Swastika itch. Austria is, of course, quivering on the brink, but of Austria more anon. Hitlerism has served to impair democracy almost everywhere and to grease the elbows of the dictators.

This article presents information on the law and order situation in Siberia under the democratic leadership of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak. It is opined that by recognizing Kolchak's government, Europe will make an irreparable blunder and do immeasurable wrong to the whole Soviet democracy, which is suffering hunger and losing blood, but which will finally survive and not succumb under the heavy trials of the day. One of the reason which is being given for not recognizing Kolchak's said democratic government is: the government was not formed by any responsible groups but was born only after the elimination by force of the committee of members of the all-Russian Constituent Assembly.

This article focuses on the an article by Joyce Cary published in the March issue of the journal "Harper's," on the belief that one of the end-products of modern industrial democratic society is and must be the mass mind. He subscribed to this belief himself, he says, until he went to administer the affairs of a primitive tribe in Africa-and found that the tribal mind was much more truly a mass mind than anything I had known in Europe. He takes, one by one, the arguments usually invoked to prove that individuality is vanishing from the Western world and shows that they are actually evidences of the opposite tendency.

The article examines Pacifists' opinion in England related to the future reconstruction of Europe. The recent manifesto of the National Peace Council may, perhaps, be taken as an epitome of the general desires of the more rigidly pacifist reconstructionists. This aims at a permanent Congress of Nations, organized on a popular basis, and lays great stress on open diplomacy and the democratic control of foreign relations. It is, apparently, silent as to sanction and as to the handling of recalcitrants.

The first-duty of world citizenship in the years to come is to preserve democracy against the efforts of fascism to survive military defeat. It will not be an easy task, because we shall arrive at the end of the European war victorious but under the handicap of the lack of a democratic policy in the conduct of the war. Collective democratic security is the pledge of the most alert liberal elements in every country to strike down any single fascist regime, which tries to survive the military defeat of the Axis powers. The author denies entirely that there is a possibility of peace, of freedom in Europe or in the world so long as a single fascist regime is allowed to survive.

Focuses on actions of the Visa Division of the State Department of the U.S. Rise in bars, making it almost impossible for political refugees to get out of Europe; Obstacle related to the grant of visa to a refugee from German-occupied territory; Demand of proof by the Department that the refugee can get an exit permit and a transit visa before it will give an American visa.