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South Vietnam promising to exterminate anyone who impeded the quest for a humane society. Hitler, he said, is his hero. Not bad either. Lyndon Baines Johnson sent a division of troops to Santo...

'THE NEW PRIESTS' (April 1965)

At the close of the 114-day strike in 1963, the publishers agreed in principle to an automation fund. What they need to do now is act on it. If they should do so, and this seems likely, the...

De Gaulle's Would-Be Assassins (March 1963)

ROBERT BARRAT De Gaulle's Would-Be Assassins The General is not beloved by the masses FOR several weeks French newspapers have been carrying long accounts of the trial of those charged with the...

DeGaulle Forever? (October 1962)

It may well be that unless Khrushchev can get the will be that East German soldiers, instead of Rus- support of Yugoslavia and a significant number of sian, will man all the...

Trial of Abbe Davezies (March 1962)

the midst of one of those relatively quiet periods, a period in which the direct Soviet threat as a tactic has been replaced by a diplomatic offensive. And, once again, the West finds itself...

Peace in Algeria? (November 1961)

ligious who derive their own sense of purpose through identification with the religious community rather than the academic community are prone to underestimate both the layman's reservoir of...

Guarantees in Algeria (February 1961)

inner disturbance, a sort of lava on the edge of a deep volcano. Within the volcano is a churning crisis for labor that no one knows quite how to resolve. "Let's face it," a top union official told...

Khrushchev and French Catholics (May 1960)

The Soviet Premier's visit raised and left unsolved many perplexing questions Khrushchev and French Catholics by ROBERT BARRAT M R. KHRUSHCHEV posed a delicate question for the Catholic...

De Gaulle and the Bomb (January 1960)

When has an armaments race ever led to anything but war? De Gaulle and the Bomb by ROBERT BARRAT o N TWO RECENT occasions General de Gaulle has indicated that the French government now intends...

The School Question in France (December 1959)

It remains one of the few issues which can still stir passions The School Question in France by ROBERT BARRAT T HE SCHOOL QUESTION in France has been poisoning the atmosphere for almost...

Passing of the Worker-Priests (October 1959)

The worker-priest remained isolated, unattached, left completely to his own resources Passing of the Worker-Priests By ROBERT BARRAT T HE DIFFICULT experiment of the French worker-priest,...

Religion among French Youth (September 1959)

The spirit of Voltaire is still abroad in the land Relig,o" n among French Youth by ROBERT BARRAT L AST APRIL in these pages I described a largescale public opinion poll conducted...

French Youth in Profile (April 1959)

"If God is dead, what will help man to live with misfortune?" French Youth in Profile by ROBERT BARRAT I T IS COMMON enough for newspapers and magazines to publish articles on the younger...

The French Pendulum (January 1959)

De Gaulle's landslide represented a national swing to the Right The French Pendulum by ROBERT BARRAT IN LAST NOVEMBER'S elections, as in 1951 but directly opposite to 1956, the pendulum...

Hour of Decision (September 1958)

profit versus loss. On the contrary: the third attitude towards the African situation which I wish to mention is dictated by a very genuine desire to build a community with the overseas...

De Gaulle's Dilemma (August 1958)

American films come in an endless uneven flow; sometimes so good that one stumbles back into the everyday world exhilarated and grateful for the acting of Brando and Fonda, or the direction of...

Skirmish over a Catechism (January 1958)

D EPRESSING as the picture seems, there is, however, ,a further alternative which I have thus far not mentioned because its values can be best measured in the light of the general campus...

Communism after Hungary: A Report In France (February 1957)

COMMUNISM AFTER HUNGARY In France ROBERT BARRAT THE UNTHINKABLE has happened. What neither the Katyn massacre, nor the destruction of Warsaw, nor the hanging of Rajk and Kostov, nor the major Soviet...

The Burden of Algeria (September 1956)

FROM FRANCE The Burden of Algeria ROBERT BARRAT ~ E MOLLET cabinet came out on top in July II in the two troubling parliamentary debates on II Euratom and on funds for the military forces in...

Crisis in Algeria (April 1956)

FROM FRANCE Crisis in Algeria ROBERT BARRAT T HE ALGERIAN crisis daily becomes more and more of a national drama, of even greater gravity than the Indochina affair. Vie~am, more than twelve...

Child Prodigy or Literary Hoax? (February 1956)

FROM FRANCE Child Prodigy or Literary Hoax? ROBERT BARRAT FOR TWO months everyone in France has been agog over the Drouet affair. Even the elections failed to keep her name off the front...

Chances for a Non-Communist Left (November 1955)

FROM FRANCE Chances for a Non-Communist Left Paris. A FTER the vote of confidence won by Edgar Faure on October 28, we are doubtless to have elections within a few weeks. These will be of...

Progress toward Disaster (October 1955)

FROM FRANCE Progress Toward Disaster T HE Moroccan crisis has long been smoldering. Nearly twenty years ago the Nationalists demanded that France modify the protectorate statute of 1912 and...

Bitter Harvest in Algeria (July 1955)

FROM FRANCE Bitter Harvest In Algeria T HE news from Algeria gets more and more alarming. Since November when there were several uprisings, France has sent some hundred thousand troops into...

Battle for the Future (May 1955)

FROM ALGERIA Bottle For the Future El A biodh Sidi Cheikh F RENCH North Africa is in crisis. One of three things will happen: reestablishment of bonds of friendship and solidarity with France;...

Why Mendès-France Was Defeated (March 1955)

FROM FRANCE Why Mend s-France Was Defeated Paris M ANY Frenchmen find it scandalous that Mend~s-France was overthrown on his North Africa policy, for he is the first Premier to have inspired...

Mendès-Frances vs. the Alcohol Lobby (February 1955)

FROM FRANCE Mend s-France vs. The Alcohol Lobby Pads T HE Mend~s-France cabinet has fallen on the issue of reform in France's North African Colonies. An underlying factor in its downfall...

Mendès-France (October 1954)

Mend s-France "NOTHING LESS THAN A REVOLUTION IN FRANCE IS NEEDED TO PREVENT THE COUNTRY FROM BECOMING A MINOR POWER.'" ROBERT BARRAT T HERE have been many accusations made against M....

Abbé Pierre and the Homeless (June 1954)

FROM FRANCE Abbe Pierre and The Homeless Paris E ARLY in January, at a night sesfi(m of the French Assembly, the Government rejected an amendment that would have set free a billion and a...

Heroes of the French Church (January 1954)

WORKER-PRIESTS Heroes of the French Church A RECENT CRISIS DEMONSTRATED THE EXTRAORDINARY POPULARITY THESE PRIESTS HAVE ACHIEVED IN FRANCE IN A FEW YEARS. ROBERT BARRAT T is...

The Rosenberg Case: A French View (August 1953)

further proof of the uneconomic nature of the Catholic educational effort. Until recently, lack of trained personnel made the use of priests necessary in many teaching positions in Catholic...

The Finaly Case (May 1953)

The Finaly Case THE CATHOLIC AND JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN FRANCE ARE DIVIDED OVER THE FATE OF TWO WAR ORPHANS. ROBERT BARRAT T HERE is talk in France of a new anti-clericalism of Jewish origin,...

Murder of a Village (March 1953)

in some instances, consisted in arrogating to them= selves the role of the police and almost always result in sowing mistrust between citizens whose "friendship," philia according to...

The Failure of M. Pinay (January 1953)

FROM FRANCE The Failure of M. Pinay T HE psychology of crowds is indeed a curious thing. French political circles never quite took M. Pinay and his program seriously. Yet his...

The Current of Anti-Americanism (December 1952)

FROM FRANCE The Current of AntiIN THE heat of their election campaign Americans doubtless paid little heed to certain remarks of Edouard Herriot which had terrific repercussions over here....

The Priest-Workers and Their Revolution (November 1952)

The Priest-Workers and Their Revolution WHEN two curates from a workingmen's parish in paris were arrested for taking part in a dem onstration against American General Ridgway, which was...

The Little Brothers (November 1952)

FROM FRANCE The Little Brothers of Charles de Foucauld was last August. I watched fifty religious postulants standing side by side, reciting the Benedicite in the bare low-ceilinged room —...

On the Road to Chartres (August 1952)

the last two years. I am a new man. I have suffered and preyed so much. You cannot know how much. If you lived near me, you would know all, but when we see each other once or twice a year. . . . I...

The Catholic Intellectuals' Week (June 1952)

It shows a drift toward a time when it will be relatively simple for the Attorney General to deport an alien for any one of a variety of causes, or to denaturalize a person who may have been a...

The Stakes in the Indochinese War (May 1952)

As a union official who has sweat everything but blood over the problem of persuading selfish, greedy, ignorant human beings to stop being free riders and contribute their just share to the upkeep...

French View of German Rearmament (March 1952)

history, of Ihuman n2.ture, of rel~,gion i, tself. A generalized rel~igion, with no roots in .the rarticular, is an intellectual abstraction, and no religion :~.t all, 'for ~t is ~ncap~ble...

The Martyrdom of Edith Stein (January 1952)

W'h,ile a na*ti,orral, ma~da~tory a,nd ptmi, tive Fa,i,r Employmen,t Practice la~w, for example, may be requi,red even~tually, e he mo~t rea,l,is,tic ~ay to a~rfive at ~l~he 'ideal ,o,r even...

Deadlock in Morocco (December 1951)

Deadlock in Morocco Native leaders demand complete independence; the French insist on preparing the people first. By ROBERT BARRAT T HE protest Egypt recently made against the French...

Crisis Over the School Question (November 1951)

it grows more heated as conditions grow worse. There is no al~pare,nt way of escaping this domestic frustration, which breeds discouragement an.d irresponsiibility and this, in turn, carries...

Legaut, Professor Turned Peasant (October 1951)

Where. t'hen, can we go from here? For the moment, ~ can see only step by step; but Catholics certainly must try to see to it that our own country steps in the right direction. Under our...

The Church at Assy (September 1951)

FROM FRANCE The Church at Assy A RECENT incident revived the periodic controversies which engage the Catholic intelligentsia in this country on the subject of religious art. On the complaint...

One Crisis After Another (August 1951)

But perhaps you do not know what the Tour de France as. All the worse for you; you do not know what you are massing. Kaesong, Indo-China, German rearmament, the threatening social crisis, the...

The Mystery of Marshal Petain (June 1951)

FROM FRANCE The Mystery of Marshal Petain BY the time these lines are published the prisoner of the isle of Yeu may have yielded up his soul, taking with ihkn, from the other side of the...

The Notion of Neutralism (April 1951)

The Notion of Neutralism THE neutralist idea is making great headway in France and throughout Western Europe. Americans should have the courage to recognize the fact or they will...

Simone Weil (March 1951)

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...

Desert Pilgrimage (February 1951)

FROM FRANCE Desert Pilgrimage PERMIT me this time to abandon the role of Parisian reporter and to lead my readers on a pilgrimage-to the desert. The opportunities for encountering silence and...

Americans in Paris (November 1950)

FROM FRANCE Americans in Paris "BELIEVE me, sir, there is no better clientele than the Americans," the proprietor of a little Paris hotel said to me, with the understanding air of a breeder who...

Reaction to the Encyclical (October 1950)

FROM FRANCE Reaction to the Encyclical NO ONE is deluded about "Humani Generis" in France. It is France and certain currents of French theological thought to which this encyclical refers....

The Holy Year (September 1950)

FROM ROME The Holy Year 1 DON'T know why but I had thought that the Eternal City remained much as it was when Chateaubriand described it a'century ago: "There are in this city more tombs than...

Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace (August 1950)

Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace French Christians are confronted with the Stockholm Petition By ROBERT BARRAT ONCE AGAIN Christian circles in France have experienced a ...

The School Question (July 1950)

Communism. He thinks that the Gospel is like a gold mine, which has not yet been entirely explored. Hidden treasures are still waiting to be discovered and applied to new times and...

A Neutral Europe? (June 1950)

FROM FRANCE A Neutral Europe? 1CAN readily imagine the pique that Americans must have felt on learning that Europeans in general, and Frenchmen in particular, greeted the first shipments...

Politics Is the Devil's Part (May 1950)

FROM FRANCE Politics Is the Devil's Part I WRITE these lines a few yards away from the ocean, having come for a few days to a small seashore resort in Brittany, not far from Quiberon....

Christian Progressists (April 1949)

Christian Progressists A movement among certain French Catholics... its aims and its obstacles Robert Barrat T HE RELATIONSHIP between Catholics and Communism is a particularly urgent problem...

FRENCH CATHOLICS AND COMMUNISM (September 1947)

French Catholics and Communism Robert Barrat I HAPPENED to be in America some months I have no idea whether such ideas are...

Barrett, Alfred

Barrett, Alfred J

Barrett, Alfred J.

Barrett, Nancy S.

Barrie, Clarence

Barrington, MarEaret

Barrois, Etienne

BARRON, JEROME A.

Barron, Robert

Barrow, John D.