Selected contents - over 100 talks in total Editor's Preface A review of east-west relations, the attack on intellectual freedom in the US, the move to civil rights in the US Doubt, suspicion and dismay in the US polity Jordan annexes Arab Palestine Germany's will to power Diplomatic machinery and peace - another call for a 'new UN' Japan postwar - can there be a peace treaty with all the allies? Germans resurgent, Germany divided Peace and the will to peace UK recognition of China MacArthur and Truman at odds over Formosa Preventive war against the Soviet Union - analysis MacArthur's leadership in Korea under challenge The dismissal of MacArthur - causes and fallout Truman's Pacific Pact; Menzies' view vs. Evatt's Egypt blockades Suez Rearming the defeated - Japan and Germany The Anglo-Iranian oil dispute - UK policy failure invites Soviet intervention Fear and the political basis of disarmament The Bangkok Conference on UNESCO and Asia Index