Survey of the situation in various countries as reported in the Nazi and local press and from letters, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, November-December 1942 Poland: Orders regarding the establishment of ghettos in the Generalgouvernement and putting the ghettos into use; division into 53 ghettos in the 5 districts: Warsaw; Lublin (assuming that the Lublin Ghetto has already been liquidated); Krakow; Radom and Galicia; granting of freedom of choice of ghetto in the district to the Jews; exemption of Jews working in war-related occupations from living in the ghetto; imposition of the death penalty on Jews found outside the ghettos; imposition of punishments on anyone helping Jews; Nazi orders changing the "Selbtshelfe" (Self help) in Krakow to "JUS" (Juedische Unterstuetzungsstelle - Jewish Assistance Office for Generalgouvernement), 16 October 1942; calling upon Dr. Weichert to help the new institution; information on the success of a Jewish family in escaping from Lodz to Warsaw from a letter received in Krakow, 09 November 1942; escape of a cousin from Warsaw to Krakow and finding a hiding place using a false identity; information regarding progress in liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, 30 November 1942; information regarding 250,000 Jews in the ghetto and shooting at people in the streets; Wartheland Area: Economy, industrialized agriculture; contribution of the Germans to development of the area; Ukraine: Destruction caused by the Bolsheviks as opposed to development by the Nazi regime in the fields of agriculture and industry; sending agricultural products to the Reich; wide-scale Nazi propaganda through the cinema; Reich and the Protectorate: Thoughts on the German occupation in Europe as opposed to the Bolshevik occupation or Great Britain’s ambitions to rule; military service conditions for German soldiers; trials of Germans for listening to foreign broadcasts or selling meat in the black market; putting Czechs on trial for treason; Hungary: Debates in the Hungarian Parliament regarding the problems of the minorities, particularly the Jews; imposition of an obligatory military service law and fines on the minorities; a separate law for Jews; trials related to forging of documents and smuggling refugees into Hungary, 04 December 1942; most of the accused are Jews; trials of those who oppose the government; return of Hungarians to Hungary; Romania: The Central Council of Romanian Jews serves as the body carrying out the orders of the regime as of 20 November 1942; Central Council activities in various fields and its branches throughout Romania; Romanization in Bessarabia and Bukovina; Aryanization of Jewish property; itemization of property confiscated in northern Bukovina; directive from 26 November 1942 regarding the obligation of Jews with work permits to report for forced labor in Bucharest; the right of Jews who served in the vanguard of the Romanian Army during World War I to enjoy the protection of the Law for the Protection of Residents; Eretz Israel: Interview with the Mufti in Jerusalem, the threat of Zionism to the Arab world; Jewish aliya to Eretz Israel from the beginning of the war (approximately 50,000); Turkish press: Arab opposition to the British regime; Turkey's position regarding the Allies; strikes by the Arabs; uprising of Arab prisoners in Al-Tar; Egypt: Aspirations for independence, a leadership role in Africa and the Near East and control over the Sudan and Ethiopian areas; Nazi press incitement of Arabs against the Jews regarding the war in North Africa; Iran: Riots in Teheran.