The Soviet passion for secrecy is by now proverbial. Anybody who has ever worked on a topic related to Soviet diplomacy has had occasion to bemoan the incompleteness and unreliability of the factual record. The situation smacks of rare irony when one remembers that the Soviet leadership first made a mark on the international scene by its vociferous advocacy of open diplomacy. In a dramatic gesture, the revolutionary directorate proceeded then to denounce the former tsarist regime and its bourgeois confederates for constantly dabbling in secret machinations aimed at deceiving the international community as well as their own people and to publish scores of confidential documents drawn from the tsarist archives to demonstrate the gross inequities of the imperialist system.

The attempt by the United States government to preserve competition and its benefits has produced a succession of legislation, popularly known as the antitrust laws, which began with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. This law prohibits combinations in restraint of trade and monopolization of trade. The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 established a federal agency to enforce antitrust and outlawed “unfair” competition. The Clayton Act, passed in the same year and amended by the Robinson–Patman Act in 1936, forbids price discrimination, mergers, and other actions when judged destructive of competition.

These statutes have generated an enormous quantity of litigation and have stimulated a plethora of literature. The following article, written by an expert who teaches and writes in the. field of antitrust, describes the more important works on the subject which, taken together, could constitute a basic collection of antitrust literature for law libraries inside and outside the United Slates.

Italian administrative authorities are local, namely, communities and cities, intermediate, the provinces and regions, and central, the highest offices of public administration, such as the ministries and the presidency. Italian administrative courts are of two levels: the regional administrative courts at the lower, and the council of state at the final level. In addition, there are several administrative courts exercising jurisdiction over matters specially conferred on them by statute.

The main campus of the University of Illinois, commonly known as the UI-UC campus, is located at the twin cities of Urbana-Champaign, about 135 miles south of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. The campuses of Chicago Circle and the Medical Center, both located in Chicago, are other components of the University of Illinois system. Many departments and colleges of the UI-UC campus, especially in the fields of science and technology, have outstanding reputations for research achievement. The University Library ranks first in size among state universities and third among all universities in the United States. Its total collection reaches approximately 5.5 million volumes.

One of the principal difficulties involved in the search for and use of Latin American publications, whether of an official, legal, economic, or general nature, is a haphazard identification of resources. This is not to say that those in need of Latin American information are less than resourceful in their investigation, but rather, that the very character of the literature they seek can be an elusive and sporadic one.