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The article discusses the history of student groups, known as Landsmannschafte, associated with German Universities, including those founded at Leipzig in 1409, Heidelberg in 1385, and Jena in 1558. The groups were originally established as regional groups banded together for maintaining their self-interests within their respective universities, yet soon became publicly notorious for their code of conduct which included duelling and licentiousness. In the early nineteenth century, the Landsmannschafte were replaced as Corps, which only admitted members of the social upper-classes, with the head of each corps representing the student body on campus.

The article discusses the history of Saarland, the lands in the region of the River Saar in modern Germany. The region was held by the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken from 1381 until 1793. After the Treaty of Westphalia at the end of the Thirty Years' War, the Counts of Saarbrücken became vassals to the Bishopric of Metz and, by extension, the King of France. During the 18th-century reign of Saarland ruler Prince Wilhelm Heinrich, the coal mining industry was nationalized in the region. After the Napoleonic Wars, the region was split, some becoming part of Prussia and the other under the control of the Bavarian Palatinate.

The article discusses William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, known as Lord William Bentinck, focusing on his time as British Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean and British Minister to the Court of Sicily, Italy. It comments on Sicilian separatism, Italian nationalism, and Bentinck's efforts to encourage Italian resistance to France from 1811 to 1814. The author also reflects on Sicily's adoption of a constitution on the British model, Bentinck's attitude to the Papacy, and his relations with Sicilian rulers King Ferdinand IV of Naples and III of Sicily and Queen Maria Carolina.

Ukrainian lies between Russian and Polish in the scale of Slavonic languages; it is closest to Russian though definitely distinct from it. Although many of the Ukrainians were until recently only vaguely conscious of their nationality, they constitute what has been called "perhaps the biggest unsolved political question of Europe today." It is a problem with which Austria and Germany used to be greatly concerned, with the idea of making difficulties for Czarist Russia. It is only to be expected that the Nazi rulers, spurred by Western defeatism and their own acute needs, should be fishing in the troubled waters of the Ukrainian question today. The Russian Ukraine, which contains about one-fifth of the total population of the Soviet Union is famous not only for its rich soil and its grain production; it also contains the Donetz coal mines and supplies of iron ore rich in manganese; its salt deposits are extensive, and it grows fruit on a large scale.

The New Statesman 11 February 1933 This is Year One of 'Das Dritte Reich', or the Nazi Kingdom of Heaven on earth. How can this be? What can it mean? [...]