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The article focuses on political and social issues of the U.S. It states that unlike the last time, the antiwar effort is starting in the center, rather than at the radical edges of politics in the U.S. Catholic bishops went on record this month against the U.S. aggressive action. During early days of the Vietnam era, the Catholic hierarchy was a major supporter of the war party. The article also reports that annihilation of unions of newspapers is around the corner in New York City. Its peal could be the death knell of at least one of the city's four major dailies and cause further hemorrhaging of the union movement.

The article presents information on various developments in the U.S. Within the Pentagon, in the combat zones of Vietnam, plenty of information is being obtained. It is technological information, the kind which will be useful in fighting the increasingly technological wars of the future. The report on 430 admissions to 98 New York hospitals, selected at random from Blue Cross files, which claimed that less than optimal treatment was received in 43 per cent of the cases was a shocker. On Sunday, April 25, some 100 million people in the U.S. in twenty states advanced their clocks, thereby gaining a daily hour of light until the clocks are turned back on the last Sunday in October. But as the Transportation Association of America points out, these 100 million were out of step with the other 80 million people in the U.S. who either shifted to D.S.T. at other times.

In Harlem, New York, for the largest Negro community in the U.S., the war doesn't seem to matter much. The people there have asked the question, "What will the war bring us?" The answer, as most of them see it, is "Nothing." They still want the United Nations to win, but only casually. Harlem's people hoped for a while that the inequalities which "stung and dishonored" them would be swept away in the war. It was, after all, a war for the Four Freedoms. At the very least, they thought, race barriers in industry would go down under the pressure of war needs. They know better now. "It is true that some jobs have been opened to us," they say, "that economically we are better off. But most Harlem people can still find work only as domestics, chauffeurs, or common laborers."