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The article focuses on the liberal campaigns set out by the U.S. labor union press which aim to abolish right-to-work laws and to ban lie-detector tests from employment procedure. It notes that the union papers have carried regular columns of various issues including cooking, travel, and social security. It says that the International Labor Press Association are focusing on those advertisements that may yield to an old labor press racket of shaking down businessmen.

The editor, in this article, highlights international political affairs. A humiliating armistice signed on the enemy's terms, the Kaiser fallen, the throne lost to the Hohenzollern, Germany crashing to pieces in violent revolution-thus ends the war which has convulsed the world. For the political disaster which overtook his party on Election Day U.S. President Woodrow Wilson has only himself to blame. Deep chagrin and humiliation should be his, for the blow to liberalism is grave indeed. The Russian news published by even the best American papers has been, from the beginning of the revolution, of the most meager prescription; it has not at any time compared favorably in either content or scope with the news regularly published by the English press and even by the British Government; and for the past three or four weeks there has been scarcely any important news at all.

Presents information regarding Iowa-bred John and Gardner Cowles, youngest of America's press lords, who have brought to the publishing world a quick-acting formula for success. Acquiring and building of properties by the brothers in the previous decade; Observation that Cowles brothers have won a national liberal reputation; Description of the personalities of Cowles bothers.

Focuses on Meredith Nicholson's book "The Man in the Street". Call for the return to the optimism of 1913; Claim that Nicholson associates himself with the cause of good government; Suggestion that incapacity for truth is a characteristic which keeps him politically impotent in every liberal move; Nicholson's projection of amiable conservative America; Claim that the craving for the mere sensation of political well-being is the direct enemy of the democracy on which Nicholson seems to set store.

Presents several letters to the editor that focus on various political issues. Discusses the liberal status of the United States newspapers; Ponders over the trial, confession and conviction of Catholic Cardinal of Hungary; Focuses on the Catholic principles.

Focuses on the book "The Liberal Papers," which is a collection of essays on foreign policy written by Liberal intellectuals who were selected by a group of Congressmen who were appointed by legislator Robert Kastenmeier of Wisconsin. Purpose of the whole exercise; Information that it is edited and introduced by James Roosevelt, an acknowledged leader of the Democratic Liberal wing; Salient proposals listed by political advisor Raymond Moley which are contained in the book; Information on the Committee of Correspondence which has desired total, unilateral disarmament by the U.S.

The article presents a typical week with the Baltimore Sun, one of the best-written newspapers in the U.S. The newspaper has its great professional fastidiousness to protect it from Liberal ideology. But Liberalism does leak into its columns--primarily in its foreign correspondence which goes by the Liberal faith; to wit: the Communists are wrongheaded and unpleasant, but also twenty feet tall. A dispatch from Bonn to the Sun carries an interview with Press Chief Sergeyev of the newly established USSR Embassy. Sergeyev does not like the climate in Bonn, Germany; Russia was much healthier; the Bonn streets are so badly lit that evening walks are unsafe. The anti-Communist German press has speculated on the Russians' choosing an Embassy site close by the conduit carrying Bonn's telephone trunk lines; but, finds the Sun correspondent. An accompanying Bonn dispatch to the Sun tells of a visit to Socialist headquarters, where Ollenhauer criticized Germany's military preparations. The Sun is one of the select group of papers with a Moscow correspondent; and no correspondent who writes persistently unfriendly stories can hope to remain in Moscow.

Focuses on the topic of freedom in the U.S. Issues regarding the politicians published in the papers; Introduction of liberal education; Significance of liberalism.

Highlights the criticism leveled against the newspaper "The New York Times" published in the U.S. Reports of acceleration in the conservative activities of the newspaper; Commendation of the newspaper as an institution in itself; Deviation of the newspaper with the U.S. administration is unfortunately being displayed; Comment of the newspaper over the National Resources Planning Board's report; Praise of other newspapers, which are more liberal in their outlook rather than "The New York Times."

Information about several papers discussed at the Growth for the Future conference held by the liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) in the U.S. is presented. Topics include the developments of the organization as it celebrates its 15th anniversary of its foundation and other issues related to economic recovery and government's civil rights program. The event featured several notable people including Joseph Rauh, a Washington lawyer and the vice chairman for ADA.

This article looks at the falling popularity of liberalism in U.S. politics in 1923. It attributes the political trend to the association of liberalism with ineffectual individuals. It also notes the emergence of conservatism as a sign of political change in the country. The treatment received by the issue from the press is noted.

This article recounts the work by the U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in Texas before getting elected. When Johnson was a Congressman in 1945, he called a meeting of the leaders from the ten counties from his 10th District in Austin, Texas, discussing what they should be doing about the men and women coming home from the war. Johnson told the group that, first, it was a responsibility of free enterprise to provide jobs for the returning GIs. To Texas liberals, Johnson has generally been the lesser of two evils at election time. Some people have thought that he was as liberal as he could be and get elected, by a Texas constituency. But since he picked up and passed the Kennedy program in 1964, not a single Texas liberal voting against him on November 3, 1964.

The article presents information on various political issues from different parts of the U.S. The liberals find a campaign between a hero of the radical Right and a centrist Democrat so frustrating that they lose sight of the political realities of the present and the possibilities of change in the future Basic realignment is not an issue in current American politics. There are signs that the Johnson Administration would like to draw back from the brink in Vietnam.

The article discusses some books on liberalism in the U.S. These books include "American Capitalism," and "The Affluent Society," by John Kenneth Galbraith, "The Cost of Freedom: A New Look at Capitalism," by Henry Wallich and "Capitalism and Freedom," by Milton Friedman. In "American Capitalism" Galbraith outlined his theory of countervailing power. Classical theory, according to Galbraith assumed the existence of competition in all commodity and factor markets and it was thus assumed dispersion of power that made competition the self-regulatory mechanism of a market economy, a mechanism which guaranteed the optimum allocation of scarce resources and hence the greatest possible social happiness.

The success of liberal ideas under U.S. Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman was too gratifying to be deep. Hunger and hardship forced the people to try U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's in 1932; the depression gave him his mandate, the war helped keep him in. It is not so clear why U.S. President Harry S. Truman won, but in two terms under the popular U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower the Republicans could not even suggest repealing liberal programs. The author does not think this means that the American people have been deeply liberalized; they have maintained large reservations about liberal reasonings and analyses.

The article focuses on the major aims of reconstruction. The need of an early determination of aims as well as means is emphasized by the fact that two programmes, on the whole diametrically opposed to one another, are already practically taking shape. One, represented by the Overman bill, would result in leaving virtually everything to the U.S. President. This is a procedure which is likely to appeal strongly to Democrats. Thus, the only hope for a reconstruction that shall endure lies in the continuance, albeit by much more democratic methods, of a liberal, even a radical, programme.

The article focuses on the Republican Party's victory of the first skirmish of the political battle of the year 1918 in the U.S. Republicans were on the winning side with a vengeance, five out of six voting for the amendment, while their traditional opponents were almost evenly divided. It is thus the literal truth that the Federal amendment conferring votes upon women owes its passage in the U.S. House much more to the Republican Party than to the Democratic. True, the Democratic votes against it were Southern rather than partisan, but that is only to say that the Democratic party is still the party of the solid South, and must take the disadvantages of that fact along with the advantages.

This article discusses the scenario in the U.S. Democratic Party. The U.S. Congress, which Senator Joseph Clark calls the sapless branch, is not quite dead. The rebels of the Left are weak, but they are more unified and determined than is generally believed. One influence that helps weld them together is their awareness that the counterbalance of dissent is more than ever needed in the U.S. administration. For years Texas liberals have contended that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson displays the classic attitude of one who, if he were in a position to indulge the dark side of his nature would be something of a jefe.

Discusses the state of bureaucracy in the U.S. Information about Under Secretary in a government department Henry Fairington; Comment on the performance of Under Secretary for Political Affairs Chester Bowles; Discussion of the policy of liberalism pursued by Bowles; Attitude of U.S. President John F. Kennedy towards Bowles; Comment on Kennedy's selection of several officials in his administration.

Presents a conversation with U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy on religious issues in politics, particularly on Catholic candidates in politics. His views on Senator Jack Kennedy's candidacy and the candidacy of other Catholics; Views on dogmatic religious beliefs of many Presidents; Opinion that a majority of the Catholics in the country today would support the position of the Catholic Bishops stated in 1948; View that Catholics by a strong majority would be opposed to the use of political power to support Catholicism to the disadvantage of other religions; His views on censorship; Discussion on issues related to Catholics' position in opposition to artificial birth control; His comments on significance to the rise in recent years of the influence of Roman Catholics in the Democratic Party; Report that he never had any pressure put on him by any member of the Catholic hierarchy to vote for any legislation; View that Catholics in both the Senate and the House are more liberal than the average of the Congress taken together.

Liberals danced in the streets back in January 1933, when Governor Paul V. McNutt mounted his legislature and rode it over the corpse of constitutional procedure in the sovereign commonwealth of Indiana. "This," Governor McNutt told his fellow-citizens in his inaugural address, "is a testing time for representative government." The following day he assembled his Reichstag and instructed the members in the representative art of voting Ja. And the liberals cheered. For McNutt was a New Dealer, and it did not matter if he drew up decrees at five in the morning and pronounced them law at noon.

Presents information regarding political developments taking place in the world with emphasis on the U.S. Comment on the purge of the liberals from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in the U.S.; Information regarding the demands of army and navy of the U.S. from the Congress; Analysis of the resurrection of a statute in Oklahoma to suppress protests by victims of inadequate relief; Information that Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler has retired to Berchtesgaden in the solitude of the Bavarian Alps to reflect on the attitude to be taken by the Reich toward the coming Anglo-French Aerial Convention.

Focuses on plans of European invasion formulated by Great Britain, during the World War II. Need of the second-front campaign to invade Europe; Statement that Great Britain alone cannot invade Europe; Need of a definite military strategy for the invasion; Statement of British statesman Winston Churchill that absolutely essential condition for a British invasion of Europe was always to have been that Russia and the United States must join with England; Argument that British military had compelled Germany to attack the Soviet Union; Demand of Soviet Communists for an immediate second front; Risks involved in those second!front campaigns; Refusal of liberals to support second-front campaign because they were afraid of Soviet predominance in Europe; Opposition to the invasion of Europe in the U.S.; Statement of U.S. Senators that Japan should be attacked first; Support of the American public to the British invasion on Europe, due to the fear of Russian predominance in Europe.

Focuses on the role of liberalism in the U.S. politics. Reluctance of the American and British governments to discuss peace aims and post-war plans; Fact that U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has become a symbol of hope to suffering humanity all over the world; Emphasis on the progress made by the country in the ten years of the New Deal; Reference to Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck's address that the war for democracy has already been lost, or turned into a mere war between two sets of nations.

Focuses on the idea of journalist Lewis Mumford about the concept of liberalism in the U.S. Complacency for the American system; Prophecies of the liberals; Assertion on the corruption of liberalism.

Focuses on the struggle between progressivism and conservatism. Discussion of challenges faced by Progressives in moulding public opinion in favor of them; View that conservative propagandist enjoys permanent advantage over his radical opponent so far as public discussion in the U.S. is concerned; Opinion that people are more timid and less radical on economic issues than on political issues; Details of how conservatives have used this timidity of ordinary voter for their benefit in the U.S. and Great Britain; Implications of an amendment to the constitution, introduced by Senator James Wadsworth, proposing the ratification of future amendments by popular vote instead of by the legislature; View that the proposed amendment enables the like of Senator Wadsworth to place obstacles in the path of progressive legislation; Discussion of demerits in the progressives responsible for their defeat in the hands of conservatives; Discussion of ways to brighten the prospect of success of progressivism.

Despite the victory of U.S. President Harry S. Truman in the year 1948, American liberal influence has been atomized in years since 1945. Members of Americans for Democratic Action bring, no doubt, great comfort to one another and it is valuable for them to keep together even if they exercise but little influence on public opinion. The journals of the left seem to die of pernicious anaemia, like the New York Star, or to survive only by carrying on a perpetual struggle which leaves them, if full of courage, hardly less full of weariness. it is, indeed, astonishing that a nation of nearly 150,000,000 people, which reelected former President Franklin Roosevelt four times and chose Truman in defiance of all the prophets, which has seen, moreover, the greatest strides in labor organization since the rise of large-scale industry.

The article focuses on the American Historical Association meeting, held on December 28-30, 1968 in New York. Long lines of graduate students waited patiently to use house phones, that didn't always work, trying to establish get-it-yourself job interviews. Interesting positions were available, of course, but a process resembling the National Football League player draft filled these. The American Historical Association is one of the largest liberal organizations in the country. But its political leanings are incidental to, its function and the result has been a liberalism of indifference.

This article presents viewpoints of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) regarding the Vietnam War. In a period that has established an almost permanent inconsistency between politics and principle, the ADA has once again tried to combine the two via the candidacy of Sen. Eugene McCarthy. Forty-seven of the ADA board argued that the McCarthy candidacy is a waste of time, but sixty-five decided they would prefer to waste their time backing what the minority called a hopeless candidate than to support a hopeless war, even by indirection. The opponents of the resolution mustered a wide variety of quibbles. Professor Emile Benoit advised that liberals should support the Vietnamese War because if the U.S. lost it with humiliation, a new wave of McCarthyism could come in its wake.

Focuses on the widening gap between President Richard Nixon and Liberal Republicans on their approach towards withdrawal of the U.S. military from Vietnam; Assumptions of Nixon that political trend in the U.S. is more of conservative rather than of liberalism; Overview of performances of the administration of Nixon in the U.S.; Appraisal of the U.S. policy regarding withdrawal of the U.S. military from Vietnam.

Comments on the declining power of the legislature in the United States and the extension of the administrative process. Growing number of boards, commissions, clerks and departments charged with the business of government; Question of whether an immense administration is compatible with liberalism; Concentration of power within departments; Public ignorance about officials and their functions; Revolt of the lower civil service in France; Danger of making representative government a fiction.

This article discusses various political issues. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's may have won him a handful of new friends, but it has certainly cost him a whole lot of old ones. The President is furthering the split in his party, and the New Republicans, whether they like it or not, are increasingly-and embarrassingly-finding, themselves practically indistinguishable from New Dealers. The new budget may not have created a balanced economy, but it has taken the country another step toward establishing a new balance in the political scene. George Metesky, the resentful bomber whose modest charm is rapidly making him a hero to New Yorkers he has terrorized off and on for sixteen years, will be indicted, should he prove sane, on two main charges. The first of these is felonious assault or the injury of a person and carries a maximum sentence of ten years, the second, malicious mischief or the damaging of property, makes him liable to a prison term of twenty-five years. Ralph Barton Perry, who died last week at the age of 80, was one of the most stalwart liberals on the American philosophical scene in the past half century.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles published in previous issues. Comments on religion and liberalism; Analysis of the crude deficiencies of freshmen at various state Universities in knowledge of English, history, and affairs; Strategy to prevent any nuclear threat from the Soviet Union to the U.S.

This article focuses on political issues related to various countries around the world. It was both deep as a well and as wide as a church door. For present purposes it will do and do well. For once the political prophets in the press, the straw ballots, and the betting accurately forecast the result. Yet not U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge but business wins. Humorist and actor Will Rogers put it exactly when he said that the U.S. voted to be let alone. England has voted, the Tories back into power. She did not reject Labor. She rejected the liberals whose tacit support of Labor had kept it in office. Labor gained but the Tories, who were the strongest single party before the election, emerged stronger still, while the liberals suffered collapse.

This article focuses on several news items related to the U.S. and the rest of the world. It is good news that Gerhart von Schulze-Gaevernitz is coming to the United States to lecture. Germany has too often sent to this country, representatives of a past with which Americans have little sympathy. Professor Schulze-Gaevernitz has long fought for liberalism in Germany, in his sympathetic studies of contemporary England and in his advocacy of a peaceful policy of free trade, as a popular lecturer at Freiburg University and as a member of the Reichstag.

Discusses the present situation and the future of liberalism and radicalism among college students in the U.S. Comparison of college students of present age with students of early 1920s in terms of their radical sentiments; Effects of the World War I on thoughts and morals of the students in the U.S.; Disinterest among students in the matters of politics; Benefits of students' interest in politics; Opinion that lack of radicalism in college students now reflects itself in their dress pattern and behavior; Conservatism in students; Adversities facing college liberalism and radicalism in the U.S.; Situation in Harvard university, Massachusetts, and Yale university in Connecticut; Suggestion for introducing provocative and controversial lectures in university; Suggestion for including at least two radical teachers in the teaching faculty of a university.

Presents letters to the editor. Consideration of the liberals as progressives or socialists; "The Age of Hate, Andrew Johnson and the Radicals," which focused on unionism; Discussion of the symposium on the future of liberalism; Criticism of an article related to the interpretation of the principle of indeterminacy; Invitation to Senator George W. Norris to become the leader of a third party in the U.S., Questions related to the trials and tribulations of the U.S. Signal Corps in France; Information on a recent publication of the Women's Peace Union, a memorandum by Elinor Byrns, in favor of the constitutional amendment making war legally impossible for the U.S.

Discusses the similarity in the American and European life style. Entry of the U.S. in the active phase of liberalism that England had almost exhausted twenty years ago; Similarity between the driving force of the New Deal and of that outmoded English liberalism; Aim of the both doctrines to make housing a public service; End of the English Liberalism.

Comments on the campaign initiated by newspaper owner William Randolph Hearst which emphasizes on attacks against communism in the U.S. Report of meeting conducted between Hearst and German dictator Adolph Hitler; Order for journalists, under false identities, to interview liberal college professors on their views toward communism; Publication of articles attacking liberal ideas of college educators; Organization of a movement by professors demanding for the appearance of Hearst before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee investigating un-American activities.

The article presents information on the book "An Introduction to Peirce's Philosophy, Interpreted As a System," by James Feibleman. Charles S. Peirce has often been judged perhaps the most original philosophical mind the U.S. has produced. There can certainly be no doubt that Peirce's thought must receive prominent mention in any competent account of the origins of contemporary Liberalism. Peirce attempt to bridge the traditional chasm that isolated human reason from the rest of nature. He repeatedly called attention to the continuities that exist between intellectual and physical operations, and he spared no pains in exhibiting the objective basis upon which valid reasoning rests.