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UNILATERAL DISARMAMENT Britain and the Bomb by J. L. BENVENISTI A S A RESULT of its just-concluded annual conference, the British Labor Party may have ceased to exist as a major political force....

The Play's the Thing (November 1959)

gether and welds them into an effective unit. His deci- sive contribution is his capacity to organize. ORGANIZATION has its own objective and im- personal ends, Mr. Drucker asserts, and it must...

Clouds Over Africa (May 1959)

for higher things than what moderns may, ignorantly, call science.) The approach is that of Procrustesm what doesn't fit is cut off. The same strategy, by the way, is used by the logical...

New Look in Prisons (February 1959)

Almost everywhere, prisons and penal institutions are becoming much more human New Look in Prisons by J. L. BENVENIST1 SINCE THE WAR, penal institutions all over Western Europe have been...

Race Riots in Britain (October 1958)

Even the Teddy Boys who participated were not moved primarily by any notion of white supremacy Race Riots in Britain by J. L. BENVENIST! SHOCKING and revolting as they were, the race riots that...

The Economics of Revolution (September 1958)

anniversary of the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution. They stress this quirk of history because they think the Arab world is now living its own French Revolution, i.e., the...

Television in Britain (June 1958)

weapons as deterrents, and indeed to test their etticiency, unless the genetic risks of such tests outweigh their utility. (3) In no circumstances, not even to save the Western world from...

The Nightmare of Mau Mau (December 1957)

its explosive potential could rock Africa and the world The NighCmare of Mau Mau by J. L. BENVENISTI I N MARCH of this year a very important thing happened in Kenya. Eight African members...

Britain's Third Empire (September 1957)

achieving independence, had largely carried through a two hundred million dollar development plan. Nearly all this money was raised locally or by loan, and the British government only contributed...

End of the Stockholder (July 1957)

End of the Stockholder J. L BENVENISTI MANY YEARS AGO Lord Keynes made a prophecy which has not come true. He forecast the death of the rentier, which was to result from a superabundance of cheap...

Retreat from the Welfare State (May 1957)

POVERTY AND PLANNING Retreat from the Welfare State J. L. BENVEN1STI BRITISH DOCTORS have recently threatened— and are at this writing still threatening—to withdraw from the National Health...

Death of a Myth (June 1956)

"1$ BRITAIN DECLINING?" Death of a Myth J. L. BENVENISTI A SHORT time ago, Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip loubert published an article in a Sunday paper which was, to say the least, somewhat...

Failure of an Elite (January 1956)

BRITISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS Failure of an Elite J. L. BENVENISTI T HE educational crisis that seems to be boiling up in America has its counterpart here in England. We too are finding ourselves...

THE MOTIVES BEHIND THE LABOR PARTY PROGRAM (June 1949)

The Motives Behind the Labor Party Program Nationalization in Britain--a question of efficiency or power? ,I. L. Benvenisti I N THE May issue of Atlantic Monthly there appeared an article...

THE ATLANTIC PACT AND ALL THAT (March 1949)

556 THE COMMONWEAL March 18, 1949 Byronian than is generally thought. What irritates a poor, ugly and deformed woman is not so much the comfortable car, but the beauty of another woman, a...

BRITAIN REVISITED (August 1948)

Britain Revisited J. L. BENVENISTI MY FIRST impression on returning to Eng-land was a heightened sense of the charm and neatness of the place and of the dignity of its cities-particularly London....

THE UNITED STATES IN RETROSPECT (June 1948)

The United States In Retrospect Impressions after a seven months' lecture tour J. L. Benvenisti I BELIEVE that the man who does not like America has got something wrong with him. I believe that...

AS AMERICANS SEE COMMUNISM (November 1947)

As Americans See Communism J. L. BENVENISTI I HAVE BEEN ASKED by The Commonweal to give my impressions of America, and after this flattering invitation I have spent a great deal of time...

LONDON COMMENTARY (September 1947)

London Commentary J. L. Benvenisti P ERHAPS the most disquieting thing that Now, this is true in only a...

THE LABOR GOVERNMENT AND BRIT-- AIN'S CRISIS (September 1947)

The Labor Government and Britain's Crisis J. L. Benvenisti T HESE LINES are written at...

IS ENGLAND DYING? (August 1947)

378 THE COMMONWEAL August 1, 1947 Tribuna went to the printers for the copies of munism, dreaming up in this manner...

LONDON COMMENTARY (July 1947)

London Coo mentally J. L. Benvenisti T HE BRITISH Labor Party has just deliv- The author of the pamphlet appears not to...

LONDON COMMENTARY (June 1947)

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PUBLISHING IN ENGLAND (March 1947)

Publishing in England J. L. BENVENISTI THE MOST serious thing that has happened in Britain during the recent nationwide electricity shutdown has been the suppression of The Economist. Not that...

ENGLAND'S STRUGGLE (February 1947)

[464] England's Struggle Notes on manpower and the British economic crisis J. L. Benvenisti OUR GOVERNMENT has at last made up its mind to tell the nation by means of a White Paper that we...

BRITAIN AND PALESTINE (February 1947)

[439] Britain and Palestine J. L. Benvenisti THERE HAS JUST been published in this country a sixpenny pamphlet entitled "Our Goal Was Palestine.'1 The author is Claire Neikind, Rome...

LONDON COMMENTARY (January 1947)

298 London Commentary J. L. BENVENISTI YOUR PRESS will have reported to you the act of rebellion of fifty-eight Labor members who tabled what was virtually a "no confidence" motion in...

LONDON COMMENTARY (November 1946)

we have to do if we are to achieve a happier relationship with Russia is to try and study what is really going on inside Russian heads. I certainly believe that the first condition of a better...

London Commentary (October 1946)

October 4, I946 THE COMMONWEAL 593 London Commentary J. L. BENVENISTI I BEGAN writing this article at the height of the Tito crisis just after the shooting down of a transport plane over...

Vanishing Middle Class (August 1946)

August 9, I946 THE COMMONWEAL 4ox 'Cut off from Europe, Quebec suddenly realized that there were other peoples of "Latin" stock on a continent which, beyond her limits, she had long thought of...

London Commentary (June 1945)

June z8, x946 THE COMMONWEAL a!;7 failure as the Austrian. Yet as long as Austria exists, even in her present form, there is one situation left where the powers have to agree and where they...

LONDON COMMENTARY (May 1946)

9t THE COMMONWEAL May xo, t946 is not, espedaly there, ignorant of faith. They escape therefore any denominational pluralism, and they ,should be given by professors of philosophy, without any...

NEW MELTING POT? (March 1946)

New Melting Pot? Suggestions for a British Ellis Island /. L. Benvenisti ANY LOVER of Britain must at the moment be asking himself some very searching questions. It it obvious that...

THE LOAN TO BRITAIN (February 1946)

476 The Loan to Britain Our terms are impossible, but the British have little choice J. L. Benvenisti BY THE TIME these lines are in print, Congress will either have approved or rejected the...

LONDON COMMENTARY (January 1946)

332 London Commentary J. L. BENVENISTI THE MOST important thing that has happened in Britain over the past month is the appearance of a leading article in the Economist entitled "The Atom."...

LONDON COMMENTARY (December 1945)

London Commentary J. L. BENVENISTI COMMENTS on British affairs which have reached me from America lead me to suspect that the real nature of the recent political changes in Britain is still...

LONDON COMMENTARY (March 1945)

London Commentary Greece — Socialized Medicine — Education J. L. Benvenisti MR. WALTER LIPPMANN'S "U. S. War Aims" has been a best seller in this country, but I suppose we have been...

BRETTON WOODS (December 1944)

Bretton Woods An Englishman speaks his mind J. L. Benvenistl ASK the reader's indulgence if in this commentary I return to the subject l dealt with last time, the subject of Bretton...

LONDON COMMENTARY (November 1944)

London Commentary Social insurance — Bretton Woods — European malnutrition J. L. Benvenisti AMONG the most interesting things that have taken place during these four epochmaking months...

LONDON COMMENTARY (September 1944)

London Commentary J. L. BENVENISTI FROM what I have heard, the flying bomb seems to have been discussed much more intelligently in America than it has in Britain. Perhaps we have...

LONDON COMMENTARY (July 1944)

London Commentary Principally doodlebugs J. L. BenvtnisH THESE NOTES are written to the accompaniment of the intermittent snoring of the doodlebugs. You will by now have read all about...

LONDON COMMENTARY II (June 1944)

London Commentary II J. L. BENVENISTI 1AM OFTEN asked by Americans whom I meet whether at the end of the war Britain proposes to give up her empire. The question is a puzzling one. It is much...

LONDON COMMENTARY (June 1944)

London Commentary The British look at the Russians, the Germans ... the Jews J. L. Benvenisri A NOTICEABLE change of attitude is coming over our Left wing press in regard to Russia....

THE OLD FOX HUNTER (April 1944)

The Old Fox Hunter The danger of leveling J. L. Benvenisti IT IS the misfortune of Britain that so many with much less risk to his intellectual dignity, for of her institutions are meanly...

COMMUNICATIONS (December 1943)

Communications A MANIFEST DUTY Brooklyn, N. Y. TO the Editors: While you mention no names, I presume your editorial "A Manifest Duty" (December 10) is intended for me. Cardinal Hayes has never...

Shall Germany Pay? (May 1943)

9° Shall Germany Pay? Discussion of a controversial matter. By J. L. Benvenisti THE FIENDS in human shape who decide these things at the British War Office, having formed the opinion...

MEN STILL THINK (August 1943)

634 THE COMMONWEAL April 16, 1943 coal mining, timber-cutting and ginsanging," Custer said. tain or be knifed at a...

RUSSIA AND BROTHERHOOD (October 1942)

8 THE COMMONWEAL October 23, 1942 suffered from racketeer, communist and just plain referendum of its members on the...

BRITAIN AND DEMOCRACY (September 1942)

except as regards the officer group leaders themselves. Here the effect is very marked. These young men may or may not be successful in stimulating the intellectual appetite of those under their...

REVOLUTION IN BRITAIN (July 1942)

trial activity above a certain size for the threefold purpose of verifying its financial condition, of seeing that it is not being conducted ineffectively and of ensuring that its activities are not...

PERIL AND TOIL (May 1942)

Peril and Toil Shakespeare's part in the war. By J. L. Benvenisti THINGS are at the moment going ill with us and our affairs are in mortal peril. We know that and we are holding on...

IS BRITAIN GOING RED? (December 1941)

Is Britain Going Red? Reflections on Britain's new order. By J. L. Benvenisti E VEN in those days before the possibility of communist Russia becoming the ally or associate of this country...

WELL-WHAT NEXT? (February 1941)

for a brave new world. By J. L. Benvenisti B Y THE TIME these lines are in print, world-shaking events may have happened. It is, however, possible that we shall still be in that state of relative...

BRITAIN TIGHTENS HER BELT (February 1941)

392 THE COMMONWEAL February 7, 1941 Britain Tightens Her Belt Humbug does not hide the issues being met behind the humbug. By J. L. Benvenisti I T IS NOW nearly four months since the Blitz...

ENGLISH MAIL (December 1940)

English Mail Three English Catholics write on the war and on its consequences. In England Today AS the struggle of war grows more grim for the big cities of England, we know many American friends...

FROM LONDON (October 1940)

From London A testimony from England as to the effect of air warfare, and reflections on the renewal of...

BEFORE THE STORM (July 1940)

Before the Storm A sober appraisal and a moving...

BRITAIN AND THE LOGIC OF WAR (March 1940)

ONE OF the great and highly educative adventures of this war will be that it will force England to get down to economic bedrock. I am not one of those who believe that the war will necessarily...

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