WEEK BY WEEK Point IV Emerges OF ALL the documents that found their way to the Little White House at Key West, none could have proved more gratifying than the 87-page report of the President's...
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The War in Indo-China Is there a sound basis for Washington's optimism about the way things are going there? By EDWARD S. SKILLIN FROM all that one can gather, the belief is growing that in the...
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FROM FRANCE Simone Weil IN A VERY few yeans Simone Weil has reached the heights of literary fame. It is posthumous fame, unhappily, for Simone Weil died in London in 1943. In the past two years...
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SO THEY TELL ME Labor and the Boys in Korea THE position of the labor unions is once more beginning to be treated with the acid of false patriotism. The question of what labor wants and why it...
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The Stage MARY ROSE I AM NOT one who holds himself impervious to either the charm or the whimsy of the late James M. Barrie, but "Mary Rose" has always seemed to me one of the feeblest and most...
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The Screen LIFE WITH MOTHER IT IS interesting that two major films are turning up at the same time in which the villain, if any, is mama. I don't think this is due to the movies' discovering...
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Communications Civil Liberty and the Moral Law Dubuque, Iowa TO the Editors: The Commonweal (March 2) took issue with an editorial which I wrote for The Witness [Dubuque, Iowa] on the subject,...
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Of Note Christianity and the West THE second issue of Cross Currents (Box 189, New York 27, N. Y.), a quarterly review dedicated to "exploring the implications of Christianity for our times,"...
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Thirty Years A-Growing By ANNE FREMANTLE AT ONE MOMENT in his youth, Cardinal Newman confessed, he was enormously impressed by some Low Church divine who had written that "the only evidence of...
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Books The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Malcolm Cowley. Scrib-ners. $3.75. ALTOGETHER, Scott Fitz- gerald wrote about 160 short stories. Some of them, like "May Day" and "The Rich Boy"...
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