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Once upon a time all theatrical performances in Western Europe were religious in impetus and expression. Professional directors and stage managers of the Middle Ages traveled to such towns as Mons and Valenciennes to stage elaborate productions upon specially constructed platforms equipped with trapdoors and other devices to achieve the most spectacular effects. An English king journeyed to York and posted himself and his retinue on a street in order to witness a segment of that city's famous cycle of plays—from Creation to Christ s passion —performed upon a wagon.

This paper presents a brief argument for the use of radical analysis to understand problems of national regional policy. The argument is made at three levels, beginning with a distinction between technical, liberal and radical definitions and approaches to the problem of regional planning, continuing with an application of the radical approach to very broad issues of regional policy in two particular cases — the development of Peru and the lagging region problem in Western Europe — and finishing with a more detailed view of a particular project in Mexico.

In the United States, demand eased somewhat in August from the high July level (see table 1b) in spite of the high level of industrial production (see graph 16). Middle distillates and heavy fuel oil contributed equally to the drop (see graphs 5 and 6). In Japan and Europe the downward trend of demand has continued (see graphs 1 and 2). This reflects weak economic activity together with a drop in demand for heavy fuel oil for electricity production resulting from good hydro-electric conditions and increased production of nuclear power.

Economic recovery was checked during the summer and unemployment began to rise again both in North America and in Western Europe. The setback seems, however, to have been due to a large extent to stock movements and will probably prove temporary. We expect total real output in the OECD area to increase by about 52 per cent this year and by 4 1/2–5 per cent in 1977. In 1978 it seems likely that growth will be a good deal slower, notably in the United States. Our preliminary forecast is 3–4 per cent.

On a number of occasions International Review has mentioned the ICRC efforts to make known, through the school textbook The Red Cross and My Country, the underlying principles of the Geneva Conventions. More than a million copies of twenty versions of the textbook have been distributed. In more than sixty countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe, it has been a pronounced success. It is intended to imbue primary school pupils with a sense of the fundamental Red Cross principles, and is supplemented by a "Teacher's Manual".

Contents: Dutch warn: free tapols or face aid cut -- An excuse to step up repression -- Pres. Suharto makes world tour -- U. S. Congress would curb aid to repressive governments -- Pentagon bares new aid hocus-pocus -- Sy Ahrir rejects all charges, defends his stand -- Two 1974 tapols die -- Indonesia: the prison state -- One repressor to another -- Health conditions on Buru -- Adam Malik faces questioning at council of Europe -- Government officials refuse to meet amnesty mission -- The situation in East Timor -- National Peace Council Lobbies foreign office -- CBI mission in Indonesia

Recent planning throughout Europe has increasingly emphasised the importance of growth centres in development strategies. New and expanded towns are proposed not solely as solutions to problems of overspill, congestion and re-development but as aids to regional economic growth. In the United Kingdom this approach has been most fully developed in Northern Ireland. Following the Belfast Regional Survey and Plan in 1964 (the Matthew Report)1 a new Ministry of Development was established to bring together what was described as the key functions of infrastructure, planning, development and local government.

Production in the industrial countries has been increasing a little faster than we suggested in May—notably in the United States, where there was a sharp rise in the rate of economic growth in the second quarter. But our forecast of the growth in the aggregate real output of the members of OECD is still in the 5-5½ per cent range for this year. We put it a little higher for 1973, when we expect a slightly slower rate of expansion in North America to be outweighed by faster growth in Japan and Western Europe.

The Chief Executive Officer of the WISE Group, Laurie Russell delivered the 2017 John Pearce Memorial Lecture. Laurie Russell reflected on his career in social and economic regeneration in Western Scotland. In work spanning some 40 years, his journey through community regeneration initiatives in Clydebank to Chief Executive of Strathclyde European Partnership Ltd, and finally CEO of Wise Group from 2006 had intertwined with that of John Pearce at various stages. He also considered aspects of continuity and change in the sectors relationship with local authorities, governments in Holyrood and Westminster, and Europe.

The tremendous increase in contacts that has taken place in recent years between African universities and universities in Europe and America has thrown up a number of common problems in the fields of joint research schemes and recruitment. It was to discuss these problems that the Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University, in association with the U.K. Ministry of Overseas Development, convened a conference, attended by about 100 delegates, representing British universities (mainly from Scotland and the north of England), the Ministry of Overseas Development, and universities in English-speaking African countries.

The impact upon Europe of the discovery and conquest of the New World is conventionally described in terms of political and economic effects. That there was an aesthetic and intellectual impact of equallygreat import is seldom recalled. The discovery and exploration of a totally new and unknown world of strange beasts, flora, and human beings affected European predilections and patterns of thought in a fashion which can only be likened to the reaction of thoughtful men today, when confronted with the wonders and potentialities implicit in the exploration of outer space.

Britain's economic objectives are to build her economic strength to assure her ability to bear the long-term burdens of defense, development of re sources, and raising standards of living. To achieve these objectives, Britain must maintain the Commonwealth and her own position in it and gain the effec tive collaboration of the Commonwealth, Western Europe, and the North At lantic Community in meeting the problems of the Free World. In this collabora tion a common economic policy which will result in a balance of payments is essential.—Ed.

Sixth Annual ReportThe sixth annual report of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC), subtitled "From Recovery towards Economic Strength", stated that the period of recovery, begun in 1948 under the Marshall Plan, had been completed and that "the task which Western Europe now faces is to build a better economy than that existing before the war". The current economic situation of the OEEC members was felt to be on the whole very sound; it was stated that "no previous annual report of the OEEC could describe so favourable a general situation".

The regular quarterly meeting of the Consultative Council of Western Powers was held in London on January 27 and 28, 1949. A communiqué issued on January 28 announced that agreement had been reached on the establishment of a "Council of Europe," which would consist of "a ministerial committee meeting in private, and a consultative body meeting in public." There had been sharp controversy over the form which the Council should take, the British favoring representatives with cabinet status and the French, supported by Belgium and Luxembourg, preferring parliamentary representatives.

Articles pertaining to journalism during the current quarter continued to emphasize the impact of the war in Europe on both news gathering and news publishing both in this country and abroad. Efforts of publishers to obtain better recognition from the Wage-Hour administration produced numerous comments. The various ramifications of Guild activity were covered pro and con. Discussions of the position of the press in the 1940 presidential election were frequent. Much attention was given to this subject by Arthur Robb, editor of Editor & Publisher. F. E. M.