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Great Britain applies a system of reprisals against Germany. Great Britain detains, requisitions, or preempts all neutral goods which are likely to interfere with the success of her attempt to starve her enemy into submission. It would be interesting to analyze the reasons why Great Britain has not adopted the simple expedient of officially designating her operations as an international law blockade and of then violating the ordinary rules of blockade so as to extend these operations and intercept commerce bound to Germany through neutral ports.

The article focuses on a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union by accident. According to the author, the possible causes of accidental nuclear war may be grouped under three main heads. These are catalytic war, technological mishaps and inadequacies, an psychological and personnel hazards. In catalytic war, powers with major nuclear capability are tricked into nuclear reprisals on each other by calculated action on the part of a third power or powers. Technological inadequacies are rapidly assuming critical importance. It is a truism that every conceivable accident must be expected even in the old-established branches of engineering.

The article reports on the declaration of the Israeli government of a massive reprisal on its suspected bases of Arab commandos which tried to enter the country. It states that it launched six attacks in Arab territories including a bomb set off in Jerusalem and bombing of a children's bus near Elath which killed two adults and injured 28 children. It notes that Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned the country's citizens to prepare for new plots of Arab terrorism.

Focuses on issues related to the punishment of prisoners of war, with reference to the reprisal theme in German and Japanese propaganda. Information on the Polish and French campaigns that dead German fliers were found with instructions for the machine-gunning of columns of refugees; Preparation of psychological groundwork for punishment by Germans; Charges made by the German propaganda that the British had bound several prisoners captured by Commandos in a Channel Island raid; Implications of the reprisal theme.

In the attempt to justify the U.S. intervention in Vietnam, those responsible for the action have created a mythology of catastrophic proportions. Future historians will be appalled by the rewrite of the Geneva Agreements of 1954, particularly the conversion of the 17th Parallel from a line separating two parts of one country into something quite different. To find successive pretexts for continuing the war, Americans have moved from one discredited thesis to the next. If U.S. President Richard M. Nixon were serious about his eagerness for peace, and if he were also serious about his fear of reprisals, he would be talking about the need for reconciliation.

Discusses various aspects to the recent raids of state constabulary and private detectives on the offices of the Soviet Mission, the Rand School and the Industrial Workers of the World in the U.S. Possibility of the reprisal on American citizens in Russia; Tendency of the raids to drive moderate and law-abiding radical propaganda into underground and desperate channels; Importance of search warrant for justice.

The author focuses on news that are reported on television in the U.S. He states that some of the news he was able to watch include a film regarding the reprisal of Israeli against a Palestinian attack aired on CBS and an attempt to abduct the Philippine Ambassador in Washington, D. C. on ABC. A reporter from "CBS Evening News" gives an update on the developments in Operation Attleboro. He says that there is a difference in the way television networks deal with the news.

The article focuses on the weapons used in the Arab-Israeli war. It reveals that the use of the tank and close aerial support is no longer effective due to the vulnerability of aircraft and tanks to new missiles. It states that the most effective new weapon used in the war is the Soviet SAM6 surface-to-air-missile. It reports that SAM6 batteries have already downed 40 Israeli planes near the Suez Canal. It notes that SAM6 is a solid-fuel rocket that is mounted in a group of three on a tracked vehicle. It further relates that the Israel forces do not have effective countermeasures against SAM6.

The article reports on the approval of a new tariff law in the U.S. in the hope of relieving business uncertainty and end tariff agitation. European countries have reacted to the enactment of the law, including the alleged threat reprisal by groups to cancel orders and stop buying copper and other ferrous metals from the U.S. Protests of American economists and businessmen have also moderated foreign anxiety. Countries, including Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain are anxious about the effects of the tariff on their exports to the U.S.

The article presents information on police reprisals in Balbriggan which was printed in the journal "Manchester Guardian." The police reprisals in Balbriggan are indisputably the worst that have yet occurred in Ireland. In its brutality, wantonness and destructiveness of the uniformed forces of the Crown is comparable only to the story of some Belgian village in the early days of the war. Two men were dragged from their homes to the police barracks, bayoneted and beaten to compel them to reveal secrets and then taken out into the street and shot in cold blood.

The article focuses on the issues concerning the neighborhood punishment concept introduced by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. It mentions that Israelis accomplished harsh actions against any individual conceived to have helped Arab terrorists and heightened their reprisals relative to the war of terror. According to the concept, anyone who failed to report the presence of guerillas, upon knowing it, would be responsible for the terrorist acts.

Debates on the need for reprisals. Arguments given in favor of the fact that reprisals against the innocent are strictly forbidden by the laws of war; Arguments given by the Nazis in favor of execution of Germans who had murdered civilians wholesale; Appreciation shown by Germany for the Japanese execution of captured American airmen; Ways in which airmen are featured in Germany; Need to preserve the values for which the U.S. is fighting against German political leader Adolf Hitler; Ways in which Hitler can be deterred in his pursuit for reprisals.

The article reports on the organization of the Fair Play League in San Francisco, California which aims to protect hours and wages, ban child labor, support truthful advertising and exclude loss leaders except as reprisals in July 1935.

The article reports on concerns by Latin American businesses over tariff reprisals as of February 1931.

Presents news briefs on politics in the U.S. as of November 1964. Final evidence of the virtuosity of President Lyndon B. Johnson; Background on Operation Purge, a plan for massive reprisals against pro-Goldwater Democrats in the 89th Congress; Issues on the use of the name The Bomb in a political campaign.

Presents a petition letter signed by Lyle H. Munson and addressed to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, asking for the issuance of a letter of marque and reprisal.