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This article discusses the destruction of Hitlerism, its meaning, and what is to follow. Rumors surrounding cooperation between the governments of Great Britain and France to end the war and render it impossible for Germany to fight are discussed. Additionally, important changes have taken place in Italy's foreign policy.

The article presents political updates of the world, as of October 20, 1881. England and France are now both desirous to work harmoniously in Egypt, but a new administration in either country may have other desires. England might be tempted to secure for herself a better position in Egypt; France might be obliged to lean more on Egyptian interests and to return to her old policy. In another update, a curious fatality seems to follow the Greeks in all their attempts to assume the position in the political world to which their intelligence and capacity for progress really entitle them.

Discusses that the French are opposed to the outlawing of the submarine. Argument of France that the submarine, if used under a humane code of naval warfare, is just as legitimate a weapon as the capital ship; Reason of Englishmen to denounce the French plans of submarine development; differences between the two nations in respect to the collection of the indemnity; Fear of the British about French submarines and military power; Argument that the political party now in power in France is likely to draw African forces for her defense; View that French submarine policy is aimed against England.

British statesman Arthur James Balfour warning to the militarist leaders of France. He declared that the amount of interest and repayment for which the British Government would ask France would depend not so much upon what France and the other Allies owed Great Britain as upon what Great Britain had to pay the United States; and he suggested that Great Britain would be ready to abandon all further right to German reparation and all claim to repayment of sums owed her by her Allies if this could be made part of a general plan by which the great problem could be dealt with satisfactorily and as a whole.

Focuses on a conference attended by American delegates, held in London, England with an objective to persuade France to reduce her naval program under consultation pact. Argument that the success of the conference depends the U.S. to assuring her military aid against a future enemy; Reluctance of Great Britain to promise military security to France due to the uncertainty about the attitude of the U.S.; Political significance of the consultation pact; View that the decision of the American delegates to consider a consultation pact with an open mind removes one British objection to strengthening the League machinery of sanctions.

Focuses on political and economic developments in the U.S. and all across the world. Efforts by Great Britain and France to bring about a solution of the Ethiopian conflict; Development of two lines of thought, the one, which is Right advocating for non-interference with Italy, while the other is People's Front pressing for sanctions against both Italy and Germany; Announcement of a formal alliance between Manchukuo and the autonomous region in Hopie and Chahar Provinces in North China; Passage of bills by the U.S. Congress embodying the administration proposal for making the Rural Electrification Administration a permanent agency to be financed by appropriations of $400,000,000 over a ten-year period; Existence of unemployment in the U.S. due to a combination of political corruption and laziness of the jobless; Peace strike to be demonstrated by American students against war; Argument pertaining to the removal of former Mexican President Plutarco Elías Calles, which makes it easier the road to much needed agrarian and labor reforms; Proposal of Carl von Ossietzky's name for the Nobel Peace prize, who has been former editor of "Die Weltbūhne."

Focuses on the signature of the alliance between Turkey on the one hand and Great Britain and France on the other. Information that the treaty is a victory for Great Britain and France; The Soviet government has issued a defiant statement to prove it has lost nothing, which makes one suspicious that it believes it has; Discussion of the main text of the treaty that reveals the cause for these attitudes; Statement that Turkey agrees to help France and Great Britain in any hostilities in the Mediterranean area caused by an act of aggression by any European power; Report that Turkey also agrees to consult, and at the least to maintain benevolent neutrality, in the case of any other aggression against France or Great Britain by a European power; Statement that Turkey will consult, too, in the case of aggression against any other European nation guaranteed by France or Great Britain, or against any nation not guaranteed, if any of the contracting parties believes such aggression a menace to itself; Effect of the treaty on Germany; Obligation under taken by Turkey in virtue of the treaty cannot compel that country to take action having as its effect or involving as its consequence entry into armed conflict with the Soviet Union.

Focuses on the Ruhr issue between England and France. View that as an issue between England and France, the Ruhr is immediately a matter of economics, ultimately a matter of security; Report that England can live only by what she picks out of the current of world trade; Diminution of this current from the dismemberment of Austria-Hungary and the reversion of the succession states to an economy of isolation; Report that the security for England depends on the political status of the lands across the Channel and the North Sea; View that if French policy in the Ruhr results in the dismemberment of Germany it must inevitably restore in England the old feeling that France is the hereditary enemy; View that a Franco-British conflict is not an impossibility, on the contrary, it is a probability, if the French push their Ruhr policy to the point of German collapse; Report that it was American intervention that placed the Allies in a position to dictate the terms of peace; View that it is time for the U.S. to reconsider her responsibilities to Europe.

Focuses on the significance of the Anglo-French Entente. Opinion that it would be a terrible thing for European civilization if France and England returned to their ancient hostility toward each other; Proposal by British Prime Minister Lloyd George at the London Conference that gold payments should be dropped, except such as might be covered by the duty of 26 percent on German exports; View that under the British scheme the Germans would be left in a position to order their internal economic affairs according to their own will; Comparison of the French and British policy towards Germany; Chances for the survival of the Entente.

Discusses the submarine policy of France, which is opposed by Great Britain. Fight of the British government to abolish submarines; Argument against the French classification of the submarine; Threat to the British security due to the demand for a large submarine tonnage by France; Analysis that if Great Britain were involved in a war with France, she would have the right under her recent practice to seal the whole of the Continent against imports to France and to supervise the commerce of any neutral which traded with France; View that the French demand for submarines is the appropriate military retort to the British right entirely to destroy the over-sea trade of a European enemy; Argument that the Washington Conference will not be able to reach an agreement about the limitation or abolition of submarines.

Focuses on a policy adopted by France to influence the U.S. support against Great Britain. Appreciation of Senator Warren Harding in the French press during the elections in the U.S.; Diplomatic policy adopted by European politicians against President Woodrow Wilson for the participation in the League of Nations; Information that the European Allies have the settlement based on the terms and the spirit of the secret treaties; Realization of Great Britain that this settlement will not work; Conflict between Great Britain and France as British now favor reconciliation with Central Europe and Russia; Intentions of the French press to influence Harding so that American prestige can be used to support the French view; International relations of France with the U.S.

Debates on Germany's capacity to pay war reparations. Policy of Great Britain, with the backing of the U.S. for forcing France to agree to the abolition of the World War I reparations; Comments by British statesman Stanley Baldwin and Premier of France Pierre Laval claiming that Germany can pay only a small part of its private foreign debt and cannot pay reparations at all; Opposition of French policies by the British Foreign Office; Conversation between emissaries of German dictator Adolf Hitler and French Ambassador Francois Poncet for a Franco-German alliance; Effect of such an alliance against England and the Soviet Union.

The article focuses on the inconclusive meeting of representatives from Great Britain, Germany and France about the issue of World War I reparations, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in July 1932. France intends to save some promised reparations by working out a scheme of more in kind payments. On the other hand, Great Britain plans to demand for a committee which will develop a scheme for reducing reparations that Germany and France will accept.

The article focuses on Italy's foreign relations with countries like Great Britain, France and Germany. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, a statesman, cried out in the Italian Senate during the debate on the government's support of Atlanticism. Italy, linked completely and unreservedly with the Atlantic Pact, has suddenly realized that she is being dragged along without being consulted. Also, Vatican's conception of the best protection against war is the creation of a "Christian Europe." Supporters of a Franco-German entente has in recent months become the keystone of the Vatican's "Christian Europe." There is an implication in the trend of the Vatican toward support of European union, as the best immediate vehicle of its universal mission of peace and pacification.

This article reports on the notes sent to the British government by the governments of France, Italy, Belgium and Japan about the German conflict in 1923. The governments maintained secrecy in sending the notes. Observers expect Great Britain to raise diplomatic, economic and financial pressure on France. French Premier Raymond Poincare also recognizes the importance of the Entente to both France and Great Britain.

The editorial focuses on the strengthening of the military alliance between Great Britain and France against the threat posed by Nazi Germany and its Axis allies in Europe. Doubts on the commitment of Great Britain in case of a German aggression towards Czechoslovakia or France; Claim of the author that the policy of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain successfully isolated Germany; Assistance that Adolf Hitler can offer to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to preserve the Rome-Berlin axis; Negative outlook by the author on the status of the balance of power in Europe due to existing conflict of interest among nations.