The
Commonweal
WEEK BY WEEK
Britain's Diet
IT IS HARD for the average American to picture in so many ounces the amount of meat permitted a British family according to the latest ration. Ten pence...
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The British View of U. S. Policy
Having as big a stake in Western policy as any other country, Britain asks only the right to be heard.
By MICHAEL P. FOGARTY
MANY of us in England, as we read the...
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FROM ITALY
No Port in the Storm
THE Communist line all over Europe at this time can be summed up about as follows: on the surface is the propaganda for peace, which, of course, costs nothing, and...
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THE LABOR MOVEMENT
The Catholic Press
WE CATHOLICS like to console ourselves with the thought that here in America the Church has sprung from the poor and underprivileged.
"Look," we tell anyone who...
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The Stage
PEER GYNT
IT OCCURS to me that "Peer Gynt" is one of the booby traps of dramatic literature. At first sight it
offers actor and audience an enthralling range of subject matter and emotion:...
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The Screen
IT'S A LONG, LONG WHILE
THERE are times when a reviewer's job is not the easiest in the world-especially when he has to consider a film like "September Affair." This handsomely made movie...
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Communications
Modern War
London, Ontario, Canada
TO THE Editors: I was very much interested in your discussion with Dorothy Day re the Christian attitude towards war (The Commonweal, Dec. 29). But...
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Of Note
Materialists
THE Catholic Social Guild (Oxford, England) recently published a booklet "The Menace of Materialism" by Paul Crane, S.J. The booklet is composed of four essays based on a course...
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Books
The Riddle Of Mac Arthur. John Gunther. Harper. $2.75.
JOHN GUNTHER, a careful observer, has given us a vignette of a MacArthur who would perhaps have found himself more at home in either...
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