The Commonweal WEEK BY WEEK THE FAR EAST: A TIME FOR DECISION IN THE last few days we have received a number of letters from readers who have not, to put it mildly, agreed with the...
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The MacArthur Argument The General has summarized some of the most important issues confronting the nation. By HAROLD C. HINTON IT MAY DO NO harm to throw one more faggot on the blaze of...
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FROM ENGLAND A nglo-A merican Relations SOME little time back The Commonweal remarked editorially that "the battle for Europe requires of the United States a far better...
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THE LABOR MOVEMENT Appeals JACQUES MARITAIN informs us that Veronique, the eldest daughter of the Frenah Catholic writer Leon Bloy, is now seriously ill and in urgent need of material support....
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The Stage GRAMERCY GHOST JOHN CECIL HOLM has, unluckily, written a comedy without a situation. He has a vague sort of premise—a Revolutionary War ghost continues to haunt a Gramercy Park...
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The Screen LOTS OF SHADOWS, LITTLE SUBSTANCE QOMETIMES I wonder why Hollywood bothers kj with biographical movies at all. The scriptwriters are so limited as to what can be said, especially if...
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Of Note The Asian Crisis FORDHAM University's quarterly Thought marked its 25th anniversary with the current issue An article by Charles Malik, delegate from Lebanon to die United Nations, is...
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Stephen Spender By ANNE FREMANTLE THE French call Stephen Spender "ce Shelley," and the tall, sensitive, cavernous poet looks, indeed, like what might have been seen plain by all the...
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Books The Weight of the Cross. Robert O. Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. $3.50. THE tidy ones are the easiest to write, and to write about. When the author has all the buttons buttoned you can...
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