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This article focuses on the author's experiences about various places of interest across the boundaries and the birds found in these places. The situation in France is clouded and variable. " I don't suppose the water rail ever looks that far from its home-ground between lake and lawn. The Jura Mountains are beyond picking distance of its bill. Anyway, it wouldn't understand." Five velvet scoters bob close together in the bay of Hermance, the border village. Atlantic sea ducks, these, who must be in the heart of Europe by mistake. They haven't read the books that tell where they should go for each season. They simply go where they please, undisciplined.

Analyzes the importance of strong domestic political leadership in the U.S. in order to maintain a strong position in the international arena and avoid embarrassing situations. Information on the leadership system of government in the U.S. as opposed to an authoritarian system; Significance of the natural tendency for democracies to evolve out of the irresponsible government of tyrants and back again into the irresponsible government of demagogues; Significance of the development of employing special speech-writers to prepare or assist in the preparation of the speeches which the political leaders deliver; Tendency for democracy in its evolution to fall away from educated statesmanship; Need for the President and the Secretary of State to consult and listen to the bureaucracy under them.

This article presents the author's views on the U.S. foreign policy particularly towards the Lebanese Government. At the request of the Lebanese Government the U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent the U.S. Marines into Lebanon to prevent the governments forcible replacement by a government favorable to the movement for Arab union. This step is likely to weaken the Western cause and correspondingly strengthen the opposed cause of international Communism. Yet the decision, when it was taken, may have been right, since by that time the consequences of not taking it would probably have been worse.

Presents letters to the editor referencing several articles related to previous issues. Comments on the article "The Student Drive to Destruction," published in the October 19 issue; Views of a reader on the article "Charnita Bonanza," by David Sanford, published in the September 13 issue; Criticism of the articles "Anti-War for Everyman, published in the September 13 issue and "Into the Breach," published in the September 20 issue; Comments on the article "Uncivil War Afflicts the Peace Corps," by Joseph H. Blatchford and Russ Davis, published in the August 30 issue; Opinion of a reader on the article "Nabamas Branch," published in the September 13 issue.

Presents a response to reactions to the article "The Student Drive to Destruction", published in the October 19, 1968 issue of "The New Republic," which deals with the 1960s student activism in the U.S. Basis of misunderstanding between the author and his critics; Debate drawn by the idea of student activism; Social status of student movement; Criticisms of the article.

Discusses the historical setting of the student drive to destruction to understand the implications of the students' revolt for the future of civilization. Background of the introduction of the word nihilism; Description of a nihilist; Consequences of the revolt against Victorianism and the rise of Freudianism; List of values associated with political history; Manifestations of the notion that man is fundamentally bestial.

Reflects on the influence of foreign affairs on the U.S. society. Estimated world population by 1975; Development of human civilization from its beginnings; Effect of the elimination of isolationism on national security.

Reports that Poland is governed by a Council of State made up of 17 members. Information that nine of these belong to the Polish United Worker's Party, five to the United Peasant Party and two to the Democratic Party, while the remaining one is a non-party deputy; Fact that the official emblem, was not the hammer-and-sickle but the heraldic eagle that had been the emblem of Poland since the 13th Century; Explanation that the job of reconstruction was not yet completed on the twentieth anniversary of Poland's liberation; Opinion that Warsaw is disfigured by a 30-story skyscraper; Invasion of the tourist represents the civilization of the West invading East Europe.

Comments on the widespread of demoralization in the U.S. Evidence of a malaise among U.S. people that amounts to the spread of demoralization; Basis of U.S. fear of a postwar economic collapse; Problems facing the world in the 20th century; Association of racial violence with national demoralization; Opinion on a crisis in identity.

Focuses on the strength of the ground forces of the Soviet Union, as of December 1963. Equilibrium between the U.S. nuclear panoply and the Russian superiority in ground forces, before the Soviet Union became a nuclear power; Effect of the frustration of Moscow's successive attempts to profit from its nuclear power; Lesson of the world's experience in the diplomatic uses of nuclear power; Purpose of a nuclear panoply.

Offers a look at the future of the world in the long perspective of evolutionists. Philosophical vision of what evolution means and where it is directed presented in the book "The Phenomenon of Man," by Teilhard de Chardin; Claim that there is always a time-lag between the discoveries of pure science and their assimilation by the lay public; Opinion of de Chardin and Sir Julian Huxley that mankind is becoming able consciously to direct the evolution of all life, and is thereby acquiring a formidable responsibility; Misconception that an individual's genetic inheritance is a combination of the genetic characteristics of his immediate parents, that every one of his genetic traits is to be found in either his father or his mother, according to the book "Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species," by Theodosius Dobzhansky; Opinion that the most civilized environment has led to the substitution, for a high birth-rate and high infant-mortality, of a low birth-rate and negligible infant-mortality.

Focuses on the political development during the post-war period in the World. Expansion of the American influence in Europe; Criticism of the British policy related to the matter of Commonwealth; Opinion of the author on the feeling of anti-Americanism and threat from Soviet Union, harbored by the Britishers; Assessment of the post-war policy of involvement; Independence of the free countries of postwar Europe owed their monopoly of atomic power in American hands.

Focuses on the political strategies of the statesmen Otto von Bismarck of Germany and Charles de Gaulle of France. Proof of Bismarck's nationalism; Competition in the development of exclusively national power; Passion of de Gaulle to undo France's humiliation; Issue of colonial policy over which Bismarck opposed his successor; Discussion of the future of France.

Discusses books, reading and book reviewing. Claim that a well-trained mind should be able to read 25-30 pages of a book in an hour; Observation that books have become longer in modern times; Assertion that scholars criticize a book without reading it in its entirety; Opinion that books got longer because writers have less time to write; Problems faced by a writer with readers; Characteristics of book reviews and reviewers; Explanation of why men write philosophies and how these philosophies become known.

The article discusses the Berlin issue. Claim that the Berlin issue stands in the way of armistice in the Cold War; Evolution of the Berlin issue since its emergence in 1948-49; View that the objective of the Soviet Union in the Berlin issue is to gain legitimacy for the government of Walter Ulbricht in East Germany; People who want the unification of Germany; Justification for fighting for the German unification; Premises for the Soviet objective in the Berlin issue; Opinion on how the U.S. should handle the Berlin issue.

Explains the inhibition to war of nations in the Cold War era. Assertion that the presence of nuclear weapons has contributed to the maintenance of peace; Explanation of the principle stating that the possession of absolute weapons limit conflicts; Analogy of the power play between countries in conflict and fighting between male rattlesnakes; Reasons behind the inhibition of a great power to use force against another power or a weak state; Contention that inhibition to war depends on popular opinion; Events that might end the Cold War.

Refutes the notion that nineteenth-century German nationalism which demands the reunification of East Germany and West Germany influences the political thinking of the Germans in West Germany. Explanation on the tendency to regard the status quo ante World War II as the normal state of affairs in Germany; Reason for the opposition of the Soviet Union to the reunification of Germany; Criticism against the Soviet Union's application of power in international relations.

Examines the risk of an inter-continental war and problem due to Communist empire for the United States. Importance of having a military base in Berlin, Germany for the U.S.; Need for a nuclear establishment in the U.S. to encounter the nuclear war threat of the Soviet Union; Suggested alternatives for the policy of nuclear deterrence for the U.S.; Proposal for the U.S. administration to improve and stabilize its international relations; Views that competition for nuclear weapons between the Soviets and the U.S. would not save the world rather lead to conflicts. INSET: Germanizing Berlin, by C.L. Sulzberger..

Comments on U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba. Lessons to be learned from previous administrations' attempt to secretly arm and train Cuban rebels to possibly overthrow Fidel Castro's regime and invade Cuba; Question of action or inaction on the threat posed by Cuba, which is drifting to the Soviet bloc; Implications on international relations and world politics.

Discusses the issues concerning the perspective of French to foreign relation and national identity. Meaning of international cooperation for the French; Factors causing the Eurocentric attitude of the French; Views that French officials have a tendency to talk to themselves and its effect their relations with others; Question raised by politician Michel Debŕe regarding willingness of European countries to improve their international relations; Assessment of the foreign policy of French Premier Charles de Gaulle; Conflict among De Gaulle, his royalists and Bonapartists that whom of them represent France; Opinion that France does not conceive of cooperation with other nations on a basis of equality.

Presents information on the nature of the Communist challenge posed by the Soviet Union. Reference to the Soviet Union's objective of world revolution; Comments on ideologies of Marxism; Discussion on the fundamental expectations of the Communist fathers; Statement that the Communist movement has not been able to win the allegiance of the worlds proletarian masses; Opinion on the weight of the burden that the indefinite control of the restive satellite populations puts on the Soviet Union; Comment on objectives of achieving security for the Soviet Union by pushing back the hostile military powers that have always surrounded her.

Presents the author's analysis of the German politics regarding the Berlin problem. Reaction of Europeans towards division of Germany; Author's reaction to journalist Walter Lippmann's proposal that Berlin must be protected in a special way while Germany remains divided; Suggestion of the author on how to solve the Berlin problem.

Presents letters to the editor regarding political and social developments in the U.S. Ways in which economic laws of modern agriculture have been altered; Information provided by a reader regarding correct usage of the term "Galluppollishness"; Views of a reader on the motion picture "Lolita"; Errors pointed out by a reader in an article which was published in the October 27, 1958 edition of the journal "The New Republic."