For some TIME correspondents it was a pleasant July assignment: round up the full perspective of the U.S.'s 181 million-acre National Forests for this week's color story in National Affairs. Through the green trees of East, Midsouth, Midwest and West they went to talk to some of the nation's outstanding forest rangers.

Atlanta Correspondent Spencer L. Davidson drove into the Pisgah National Forest at the southern end of the Appalachians; Detroit Correspondent Nick Thimmesch made the rounds in Upper Michigan's Hiawatha National Forest; Denver Bureau Chief Barren Beshoar headed into the San Juan Mountains for three days; Albuquerque Correspondent Arch Napier trekked through New Mexico's Carson National Forest. In Washington, Bureau Chief John L. Steele mopped his brow, thought warmly of his colleagues in the cool forests, and with Chief Forester Richard E. McArdle summed up the purpose of McArdle's far-reaching domain (see map). It's the same as it was when Teddy Roosevelt created the forest service in 1905: "For the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run."

The week's most significant story in Foreign News came in scattered pieces. Gaitskell, Mollet and Ollenhauer--the big names of Europe's three major socialist parties--all faced the same kind of trouble: the noisy outcries of leftist factions demanding that their parties outbid others in proposing compromises with the Russians. In Britain, Hugh Gaitskell challenged the nation's most powerful labor union by sternly rejecting its demand that Britain renounce the H-bomb. In France, Guy Mollet bluntly told his followers that if it is neutralism they want for France, he would quit as leader of the party. In West Germany, Erich Ollenhauer did quit. Putting the pieces together, TIME'S editors found the order of the day for Europe's socialists: Eyes right!

The British Commonwealth," said Lord Hailsham, deputy leader of the House of Lords, "is hopeless to define." In its cover story on Queen Elizabeth II (June 29), TIME tackled the job of definition. Last week the British government had ordered 9,000 copies to send out to increase understanding of the Commonwealth.

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