THE Commonweal week by week EUROPE'S DISAFFECTION I T is curious that the nub of the Communist problem in Western Europe lies in France and Italy, for despite their strong sense of history...
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The Housing Scandal "THE STINKING, DISGRACEFUL MESS EXISTING IN ALMOST EVERY CITY ~ THE PREVALENCE OF SLUM LIVING." MICHAEL HARRINGTON S LUMS, like sin, are a reality which members of Congress...
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"AMENDITIS" Always Time for a Change JEROME G. KERWIN T HE American passion for the written law as a solution to any problem lives on. From Aristotle to the present, great political...
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FROM JERUSALEM The Efficiency Of Violence T HE fast time it occurred to me was on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Naturally, as an infidel, I was unable to go as far as the town itself and had to...
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THE SCREEN VACATION, ANYONE? C ONTENDERS that movies were much better before talkies seem to win a point with "Mr. Hulot's Holiday." This wonderful little French film has and needs no English...
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COMMUNICATIONS MARITAIN ISSUE Princeton, N. J. T O the Editors: I received the issue of The Commonweal [June 1 l] as an extraordinary, unexpected gift of your friendship and Divin~...
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BOOKS Spinning Literature Out of Old Lead AROUND THEATERS By Max Beerbohm. Simon and Schuster. $6. By WALTER F. KERR I T seems to me that all the rest of us who don't write as well as Max...
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