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Discusses the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal. Proposition that a President may pardon a person before the person has been formally charged with anything; Ignorance of elemental criminal law by Nixon; Controversy over the implementation of the pardoning power of the presidency; Decision by Nixon to resign; Speculation on the state of mental health of Nixon.

The article reports on the Central Committee meeting of rulers in Vltava River, Czech Republic. It mentions the changes of the historic meeting compares to the traditional one as press media is present and the accessibility of Western politicians than Communists leaders. Also mentioned is the consideration to an action program for a democratic reform in the country.

The article reports on the attendance of presidents, prime ministers, and foreign delegates, including U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, French Leader Charles de Gaulle and the new German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger to pay homage to former statesman Konrad Adenuer at his funeral in West Germany. Events involving political snobbery by Johnson and de Gaulle are highlighted. Johnson's talk with Kiesinger regarding the U.S.-German consultations is also mentioned.

The article reports on the visit of French President Charles de Gaulle in Russia. It states that de Gaulle was accompanied by Russian Prime Minister Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny on his tour to Moscow. It highlights the meeting between de Gaulle and Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev who verbally attacked West Germany which was rebutted by de Gaulle.

The fall of Barcelona threw financial circles in London and New York into panic, not out of sympathy with the Spanish people, but because it was felt that the event would mark the beginning of a new stage of the fascist offensive. Everyone is asking where the dictators will strike next. It is probable that no drastic action will be taken until the fascists have obtained undisputed mastery of Spain. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's statement that Germany will fight in support of Italy is scarcely news. The axis stands as the basis of German foreign policy.

Offers observations on former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life. Account of an incidence, when he was a little boy and drove up to the house in an open sleigh; Description of the most poignant picture of Franklin Roosevelt; Narration of a six weeks visit to the White House; Recitation of a dinner at the White House with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill; Celebration of the Christmas party at the West Hall in Washington.

This article examines opinion of the press on U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The article begins with an analysis of a press conference conducted at the White House on October 6, 1966. It was the President's seventy-eighth press conference in less than thirty-five months--and one of his best performances. A President may be a formidable man in face-to-face encounters, as Lyndon Johnson is when he administers the "treatment" to a visiting head of state. At the same time, in its reporting of what he says and does, the press has a unique opportunity and responsibility to hold the President accountable for the conduct of his office.

This article focuses on the political situation of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. All eyes are on the Johnson. There is little curiosity in the U.S. about what the U.S. Supreme Court will do this term, although it has several very important decisions to make, and even less curiosity about what Congress, led by tired and imitative men, would do if left alone next session Did the President smile or frown, and what does it mean? Did he Smile? All the rumors, all the speculations are tied to the actions of one man And for good reason. The President has manipulated himself into a position of extraordinary personal power by playing upon the nation's gratitude for his accomplishments through the 1965 Congress.

The article reports on the acceptance of East Germany as the newest member of the United Nations (U.N.). It states that the acceptance came after the death of the head of East Germany, Walter Ulbricht. It mentions that the acceptance represents the start of a new era of the democratic capitalist and Communist worlds' relation and that it also emphasized the sense of inferiority of East Germany to West Germany. It also notes that the recognition as a legal sovereign state is a tremendous triumph and a fundamental challenge to East Germany and it also sums up into something of a surprise to West Germany.

This article focuses on the political conditions of the U.S. To a foreign observer of the American scene, the outstanding characteristic of the landscape is the absence of effective leadership. In any serious sense the Cabinet has ceased to exist. If it meets from time to time, there is no evidence to suggest either that it is asked for or that it attempts the formulation of coherent policy. The U.S. Congress may have taken the bit between its teeth, but no one can say where it is going except that it will not follow, if it can help it, any road down which the U.S. President is going.

The article focuses on world politics. French President Charles de Gaulle's uncompromising opposition to the new French draft constitution places squarely upon him the responsibility for dividing France into two bitterly antagonistic groups. His speech at Epinal last Sunday was an example of the iniquitous policy of bloc building, which is undermining the chances of real peace between nations, applied on a national scale. The man who symbolized "unity among Frenchmen" and who still protested at Epinal that he belongs neither to the right nor the left has become the undisputed leader of French reaction.

Two parallel peace plans were proposed early in the wars one by the Western democracies, the other by the Roman church. The basic tenets of the first were listed in the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Great Britain Prime Minister Winston Churchill Atlantic Charter and in Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, those of the second in the Papal proclamation of the Five Points. The main concordance between the two programs lay in the pledge that after the war all nations should be restored to safety and sovereignty "within their own boundaries" and that economic opportunity should be equally available to "great or small, victor or vanquished."

The article discusses about the message of British government on reverse lend-lease and the White paper released simultaneously in London and Washington. The first thing that strikes one in comparing these documents with the President's last report on lend-lease is that British cash purchases in this country have actually been greater than lend-lease exports. The White Paper discloses for the first time that these cash purchases amounted to $6,000,000,000, as compared with total lend-lease exports to the Great Britain on 30 last of somewhat less than $4,500,000,000. This 4,500,000,000 must be regarded as a protective payment to keep Great Britain in the war.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Issues relating to the vice-presidency of the United States, such as the prominence of the Secretary of State appointed by the President-elect; Complaints about the cabinet officers of British Prime Minister David Lloyd-George; Article on "Sheltered Daughters," by Jane Mander, about children who are the victims of a parent's religious bigotry; Article by Lord Bryce titled "America's Traditional Isolation," about former U.S. President George Washington's belief in prepared neutrality; Editorial titled "Money Wanted," in the June 24, 1916 issue, about New York cloak and suit makers.

The article focuses on the leaders who are determined to rescue their people from disease, starvation and ignorance. It mentions several ideal leaders from different countries including Arturo Frondizi of Argentina, Juscelino Kubitschek of Brazil and Alberto Lleras Camargo of Columbia. It explores the history of the leadership of Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, a classical example of the legendary conspirator-gone-respectable, who have inherited the mess left by Dictator Perez Jimenez.

Comments on several political and foreign relations issues from around the world. Spectacle on a U.S. Senate Committee hearing regarding the appointment of Rexford Guy Tugwell as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Consequences of the decision of the Reichsbank to suspend commercial payments exceeding 50 marks to foreign countries; Opinion on the announced personal meeting between German dictator Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini; Changes in the language of the Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching legislative bill; Reaction to the strike declared by the employees of the Macaulay Publishing Co.

Israel's coming anniversary, May 11, 1951 will be observed in an unusual way. While there will be the traditional parades and street dances in Israel, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion and his top associates will not be there. The Jewish state has had only two birthdays, but each has been strikingly different in mood. In May, 1949, the people who celebrated the first anniversary of independence were magnificently, naively optimistic about the future, despite the oncoming wave of immigration. Labor idealists had succeeded over the years in making a laboring class out of shopkeepers and rabbinical students from Eastern Europe.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in his House of Commons speech of March 6, again exposed the insincerity of the Tory case against the government's decision to leave India in 1948. Oppressed by the fact, and unable to deny its truth, that Britain lacks both the force and the desire to govern India against its will, Mr. Churchill could only plead Britain's sacred duty of protecting minorities, presumably in the hope that morality would overcome discretion. The war-time leader once declared that he had not become Prime Minister in order to liquidate the Empire, but in the pinch of absolute necessity he would permit Britain to become the client of the Trusteeship Council.

Focuses on political developments of world with special emphasis on the political conditions in U.S. Right to maintain a formal continuity with the policy of prime minister of France, Raymond Poincare; Hope of economic reconstruction along traditional lines in Germany; Criticism to the Dawes plan; Report of the Borah Committee exonerating one U.S. Senator; Inquiry into the defective bureaus; Assumption that the right to conscript every citizen for military service; Monstrosity of a new World Court plan; Call for a future Congressional inquiry into the detective bureaus; Reply that the steel industry consented to the policy of moderation; Movement toward the reduction of armaments in the U.S.

Presents the sixth of a series of eleven articles taken from Lytton Strachey's Life of Queen Victoria, which are appearing in "The New Republic." Description of Queen Victoria's private life; Role of Lord Melbourne in the political existence if the Sovereign; Discussion of Prince Albert's interest in politics.

The article presents information on foreign policy matter relating to United States. US Vice President Richard M. Nixon's report on his recent South American trip contains two divergent lines of thought. What one need, he said, is a new grass-roots diplomacy with less emphasis on "cocktails and white-tie dinners" and less hospitality for recently deposed dictators. Later in the speech he observed that the success of his mission would be found in the policies that the United States will practice in the future.

The article presents information on suggestions for dealing with the Irish problem. English statesmen have felt themselves in the position of a merchant who, while carrying on his ordinary business in his ordinary way, knows that he has risked his fortunes in an investment from which it is now impossible to escape, which he watches with breathless anxiety from day to day, and which may at any moment bring him, if it continues to sink, to the verge of insolvency. Comparatively little sensation has been made in England by the reports of the New York mass-meeting and other American demonstrations on behalf of the imprisoned suspects who claim American citizenship.

The article provides world news briefs for the week ending September 8, 1941. German Führer Adolf Hitler and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini met apparently in response to the meeting of the recent meeting by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The U.S. East Coast is suffering from an oil shortage despite efforts to reduce consumption. The New York Board of Censors banned the movie "The Forgotten Village," written by John Steinbeck.

Focuses on political developments in the world. Discussion about the condition of army troops in the U.S.; Efforts of Germans to make people think they are about to invade Great Britain. Arrest of supposed Fifth Columnists except communists, pacifists and labor leaders in Germany; View that Fascist prime minister of Italy, Benito Mussolini cannot safely fight a long war; Information about the treaty of friendship with Germany; Suggestions to solve the great problems directly connected with the Allies; Introduction to the present policy of the American Communists; Information that the Department of Justice wants all aliens to be registered and fingerprinted; Proposal to turn Civilian Conservation Corps into a military-training unit.

This article focuses on the visit of French President Charles de Gaulle to Mexico. Whether or not the General is wholly sincere, he has built himself up as a champion of "national independence" and has been praised for it by men as different as Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru. De Gaulle certainly has a way of getting `both himself and France talked about. The papers in the U.S. have been full of press quotes about his Mexican visit-quotes from China, Japan, India, England, Latin America and, above all, the U.S.

The U.S. is again directing its attention to the unresolved problems of Executive continuity in the event of Presidential death or disability. Although the transition to a new Administration has been remarkably smooth, and despite the fact that an election to fill both of the to national offices is less than a year away, these problems cannot be ignored. The urgency arises even more because the actuarial record of American Presidents (and Vice Presidents) is so disturbing: eight out of thirty-six Presidents have died in office, for out of eleven in this century, and on at least three occasions there has been serious doubt as to a President's ability to perform his duties. Moreover, seven Vice Presidents have also died, although, fortunately, the two executive offices have never yet been vacant at the same time.

The article discusses the American Presidency. The American President, no matter how fine a may be personally, is a hydra-headed monster. The job is too big, too complex, too spiked with responsibility for any one human being. It is small wonder that Presidents hide out in pomp, fantasy, the Burning Tree golf course. In fact, that may be the only way to endure the job. He is the only statesman of the Western world who can make decisions alone in an emergency. He is in control of a de facto empire into which the scattered fragments of the dissolving British Commonwealth are gradually being merged.

Focuses on the arms discussion of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford with other Heads of State. Approval of the final details of a White House staff reorganization by the President; Thoughts on using Nelson Rockefeller in the vice presidency without being overwhelmed; Leadership provided by Ford after replacing former President Richard Nixon; Views that Ford appears to more puzzled than troubled due to the criticism; Instance of facets of Ford's behavior with his effort to show himself independent of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Questions raised due to relationship between Ford and Rockefeller.

Information about the third summit meeting between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev is presented. A major arms-limitations agreement in the area of strategic offensive missiles had been sought by Nixon. More cooperation in the area of science and technology has been promised by the two leaders. No settlement was reached on the issue of hindrances to the promotion of trade.

Focuses on the influence of nuclear weapons issue on the world politics. Opinion that the U.S. governments need to discard policy of continuing to talk about re-establishing balances of power and meeting Soviet aggression by massive retaliation; Comments of Soviet Head of State Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev about policy of Western countries to continue nuclear tests; Reaction of public of non-Communist countries after comments of Khrushchev regarding disarmament; Statement issued by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on the issue of nuclear weapons; Opinion that Communist parties developed in non-Communists countries as a result of nuclear weapon issue; Attitude of different countries on joining Communist or non-Communist blocks on the nuclear weapons policy.

Reports that Russian writers have been appealing for more freedom and genuine debates within the government-controlled Union of Writers on the content and goals of Soviet literature after the death of former Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Appearance of editorials on Soviet artistic works in the leading literary and the Communist Party journals; Criticism of literary performance of Soviet writers, since the World War II, by the Party; Strategy of the Party to use the party spirit to discredit all writers not to its ideological liking; Demand for optimism in the Soviet literature in socialist realism; Request for the Soviet authors to show complexities and contradictions of Soviet heroic era.

Focuses on the policy of the Soviet Union towards the Middle East after the death of former Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Views the Russian policy under leadership of Stalin has been dogmatic; Realization of the Soviet politicians that the Middle East offer better chances for Soviets rather than other Asian regions; Political and economic exchange between the Soviet Union and the Arabs specially modern arms; Effect of the Soviet policy on the peace efforts of the Western countries in the region; Setback for the Arab governments for unqualified support from Russia due to change in attitude of the Soviets; Reaction of the Western forces to the anti-Israeli policy of the Soviets.

The article focuses on the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. In a way it was true, but his dictatorial influence was undoubtedly of the benevolent type. Religious by disposition, the Mahatma could not, even if he wanted, get over the Hindu virtue of humbleness and modesty. Western education banished from his mind any oriental tendency to make things and men sacrosanct, to accept them without questioning and to demean himself before so-called supervisors. Success came to Nehru comparatively easily and early in life. At the time of his first imprisonment he was a national hero.

Presents information on the forthcoming U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China. Prediction of the consequence of the visit by secretary of state Henry Kissinger; Proposition by the President that the ultimate relationship between Taiwan and the mainland is a matter for peaceful resolution by the two Chinas; Discussion of Nixon's China policy.

Provides some insights into the views of Southeast Asian leaders about the U.S. government. Political ideologies of political leaders, President Sukarno of Indonesia, General Ne Win of Burma and Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia; Factors influencing anti-American views; American aid to Southeast Asian nations; Profile on several Southeast Asian leaders; Differentiation of revolutionaries, neutralists and socialist leaders; Indications of world politics and foreign relations.

Focuses on the comparison in political doctrines of the minister of National Economy of France, Pierre Mendès-France and the French President Charles de Gaulle. Service of Pierre in the cabinet of de Gaulle; Views that both Pierre and de Gaulle share common traits; Isolation in their political parties; Unpopularity in peacetime; Prominence when France is on the brink of abyss; Strength of character; Views that Pierre is the most authentic and the most intransigent democrat ever to have been produced by French political tradition; Appraisal of the political adeptness of Pierre; Views that de Gaulle has an aesthetic and to some extent a Nietzschean concept of authority.

Discusses reasons behind Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev's turn back form his policy to campaign for an international detente and working for a Summit conference. Suspicion that Khrushchev has been overthrown by coalition of the Chinese Communist leader; Disagreement of the Chinese Communist leaders regarding policies of Khrushchev; Possibility that Khrushchev being still free to pursue his objectives regarding international crisis by authorizing serious action against West Berlin; Reorganization in the top leadership in the Soviet Union after crashing of the spy plane near Sverdlovsk; Comparison of position of Khrushchev with position of Joseph Stalin, former Russian Premier; Rejection by China for Khrushchev's attempt to differentiate between realistic imperialists and militarist diehards; Information about the U-2 flight issue and its effect on Khrushchev's politics; Views that Khrushchev has kept power as well as his concept of limited risk through his action.

In this article, the author focuses on issues related with the Anglo-Italian pact, held in April 1937, and its future consequences. This agreement was signed by British Premier, Neville Chamberlain and Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini. This pact is still in suspense. At close quarters the Spanish scene looks very different from the distant perspective. In the United States even some of the republic's well-wishers are inclined to opine gloomily that an ultimate Loyalist defeat is inevitable, their defeatist attitude having been induced, no doubt, by the stories which a short ten months ago were being front-paged in American papers. The most serious aspect of the Loyalists' situation is supposed to be the shortage of food, about which something drastic must be done.

This article focuses on the role and uses of mass media, specially radio broadcasting, in war regimes and international peace making. Currently, radio has been used in the attempt both to make war and to make peace, to rescue Western civilization and to push it over the abyss. A new dimension had been added to politics and diplomacy. Radio has given them not only the words but the voices of the protagonists like; Nazi German dictator, Adolf Hitler; President of Czechoslovakia, Edvard Benes; British Premier, Neville Chamberlain; and Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini. Various special broadcasts, bulletins, newspapers' publications, and radio programs have played significant role during this war period.

The article discusses the Egyptian political crises. Today, the attention of the world is riveted on events in Egypt. An eighteen-year-old king dismisses his government and unrest sweeps the land, but the ratio of royal to civil power is a domestic issue, of little importance beyond the nation's borders. The regime change not withstanding, chances are that no major shift in Egypt's international orientation is impending. Italy cannot meet the bills, equip and pay the army, extend the loans which an ambitious ruler wants. On the other hand, Cairo knows that nothing would end this desirable state of affairs more quickly than a turn towards Italy.

Greatest weight was given to the 1934 Congressional elections, for it is an axiom of American politics that the party winning the Congressional elections between Presidential elections always wins the Presidency two years later. Victory in the Congressional elections means that a party is well on its way to control of state, county, and local machines, and these machines elect their Presidents. It was their control that kept the Republicans in power almost continuously up to 1932. Account also had to be taken in many cases of the fact that no appreciable number of voters split their tickets in a national election.

Profiles Charles de Gaulle, a general and head of state of France. Background information on de Gaulle; Key contributions to French politics and foreign policy; Predilections.

Presents information on Emperor of Japan Hirohito's son Akihito. Presentation of the sacred sword which is the symbol of the life force by Emperor Hirohito on the arrival of baby Akihito; Reference to Akihito's royal training; Reaction of Akihito to his father's broadcast of the imperial rescript; Report on a regimented prince's life led by Akihito; Prospect of sending Akihito abroad to college in four or five years.

Focuses on former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's qualities as a great President. Discussion of his love for people and identification with their personal problems; Observations of his meetings with the Victory Labor Committee; Revelation of his interest and his obligation to the men in the service; Explanation by Roosevelt that he knew the limitations under which labor leaders function.

Comments on the task of winning the war against Germany and Japan that is confronting the member countries of the United Nations (UN). Need for the UN-member countries to maintain good relations with each other and their alliance against the Germans and the Japanese; Comparison and contrast of heads of state Winston Churchill; Josef Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt; Implications on world politics.

This article comments on the decision of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson to withdraw from Presidency. Though Johnson's decision to withdraw from the Presidency has placed the nation in a perilous position, the dangers of the move have not been properly appreciated in this year of clamorous events. The central significance of the event derives from the fact that the most powerful nation in the world is now governed, particularly in its foreign affairs, by a man who has placed himself beyond the reach of political accountability. In domestic affairs, the President's power is still considerably hemmed in by a political system that rolls on with a structure and momentum of its own. Domestically, the effect of Johnson's withdrawal is to deprive the political system of leadership at a time when it needs it most.

Profiles William T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State. Contemporary opinion on Cosgrave; Personal background; Political career; Qualifications for office; Training in public office; Views on the economic and social conditions in the Irish Free State; State of relations with Northern Ireland; Approaches to forming an alliance with Northern Ireland.

The article focuses on the trends in the political situation of Great Britain. According to the author, in 1906, there was an existing agreement between Liberal and the Labour Party which then, turned to an opposition between each other. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin had changed his image from being an apostle of industrial peace and a charming leader during the revival of the Tory party where he gain hatred in trade union, government interference, and social legislation.

Focuses on Marie, Queen of Rumania. Description of her childhood and her family; Comments on her marriage with Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Rumania; Discussion of the problems of agrarian reform and the federation of racial minorities in Rumania; Description of Marie's talents as an author.

The article discusses State visits. George II of Greece is expected to arrive in America from Egypt on June 10, 1942. He will be accompanied by Prime Minister Emmanuel Tsouderos and other members of the Greek government-in-exile. The King and his party will be guests at the White House and will be honored at a state dinner by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; they will also be honored dinners given by the U.S. Secretaries of State and the Navy and at numerous banquets and patriotic celebrations throughout the United States.