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This article focuses on political conditions in the world during 1935. The group representing the U.S. National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners has had considerable success. Three of its members got themselves arrested in Birmingham for possessing more than a single copy of subversive literature, but they were released by the chief of police who ruled that they had not violated the law. The British Parliament has passed the India bill and it has been given royal assent. Though attacked vigorously by the die-hard faction of the Conservatives as an abject surrender of the white man's burden, the bill actually represents a strengthening of British control in India. White-collar relief workers in New York have organized, to combat impending wage cuts.