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Little news has come out of India during the past two months. Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru is silent behind prison walls and if the people continue to demonstrate on the streets, papers have not reported it. But silence does not necessarily imply submission. India still boils with frustration and unrest. It is the scene of one of the most dismal political failures of the United Nations and Japanese machinations are working to turn that failure into victory for the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." The central figure in the Japanese campaign is Subhas Chandra Bose, beloved by millions of Indians who remember him as a fiery patriot and leftist leader.

The article offers world news briefs for the week of July 23, 1945. Particular focus is given to a review of military news during the Pacific theater of World War II. Negotiations in India for the expanded participation of Indians in the Executive Council have faltered. The U.S. Senate Finance Committee has proposed a provision to aid railroads in a pending tax bill. Further article topics include the strike of newspaper deliverymen in New York City, and the chartering of the United Nations.

Discusses problems faced by the United Nations during the World War II. Impact of the war on the people of the member countries of the United Nations; Organization of sources of strength in democratic movements of Latin America; Role of the United Nations in various parts of Asia; Loss of public support in India and China to the United Nations; Move of China towards totalitarianism and imperialism; Comment on the Indian policy of Great Britain; Resolution of All-India Congress Committee in favor of civil disobedience movement; Support of the United Nations by several Moslem League leaders in India; Transformations in the Indian nationalist movement.

The article focuses on British imperialism in India. To be able to obtain paper freedom from British rule, Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi and Congress leaders are willing to risk permanent slavery under Japanese rule. Gandhi views British sovereignty in India as a sin. It comments on Gandhi's failure to explain to his people that freedom depends on the success of the United Nations.

The article highlights Pakistan's complaint before the United Nations (UN) against India's alleged attempt to deprive 76 million people of the waters of the Indus basin, by which they live. Pakistan claimed that India has dried up 11 canals by diverting water from the Punjabi head-streams to its irrigation schemes. The conflict, like most feuds between India and Pakistan, is being attributed to the partition drawn by Great Britain's Cyril Radcliffe in 1947 to separate Hindu from Moslem.

The article focuses on the effort of the United Nations (UN) to arrange a ceasefire between India and Pakistan and the encircling revolution in Asia. It says that the battle between India and Pakistan arises due to long-disputed Kashmir. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant conducted a meeting in Rawalpindi, Pakistan to weaken disputes between Pakistan and India. Moreover, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson announced that his administration will take a viable peace and economic aid in every nation in Asia.

The article focuses on the guerrilla warfare of forces between India and Pakistan in Chhamb and Dewa in the southwestern Kashmir, India. It states that the Indian troops crossed the cease-fire line set by the United Nations and invaded fully 25 miles droving Pakistani from their outposts. It mentions that the seizure of Pakistan-controlled territory by Indian forces moved Pakistani President Mohammed Ayub Khan to make its military answer by deploying 70 tanks on the lands of Chhamb.

The article focuses on the impact of the World War II on the business condition in India in 1943. It notes that the war has brought a diversion of facilities from civilian production rather than generation of capital investment, also stressing the decline of normal imports that has intensified the economic difficulties of the country. It also highlights India as a base for United Nations operations in the Burma-China sector.

The article focuses on the appointment of V. K. Krishna Menon as Defense Minister of India. Menon's United Nations visits are expected to become less frequent after he reports to the Security Council on mediator Gunnar Jarring's Kashmir report. Information is given for the response of Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, to pressure about the removal of Menon from the U.S. limelight.

Presents information on recent socio-political developments from across the world. Proposal of President John F. Kennedy to reform the tax structure; Comments on the foreign aid of the U.S. to India; Suggestion on the supervision of the artificial satellite Telstar of AT&T Corp. by the United Nations; Argument about coherent policy for satellites.

Presents news briefs related to political development in the U.S. and around the world. Information that a nationwide poll conducted by Opinion Research Corp. shows the negative attitude of U.S. public towards compulsory union membership; Attitude of American Vietniks towards secretary-general of the United Nations U Thant's performance on the Vietnam war; Report that the helicopter served in Korea, served mostly in rescue work, and Korea was still the war of fixed-wing aviation; Comment on the election of a woman to the post of Prime Minister of India; Information that Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's level in Indian society sexual prejudice tend to disappear; Opinion that the Tricontinental Congress in Havana was one more Communist propaganda.