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A Note on anti-Communism A positive program and the American Catholic press Edward Skillin, Jr. I T WAS TOO LATE to duck behind a pillar; my talkative friend hadspotted me and was striding...

BELEAGUERED SPAIN (February 1947)

448 Beleaguered Spain EDWARD SKILLIN, Jr. WHEN ANYONE of note has raised an iron curtain and revealed in some detail what lies beyond, politically-minded observers delve deep to find items...

OUR POLITICAL DOLDRUMS (November 1946)

Our Political Doldrums EDWARD SKILLIN, Jr. THE DEPRESSING level of today's American political life is reflected in other facets besides that of the sorry ineptitude of the Truman...

Our Road to War (September 1946)

September 6, I946 THE COMMONWEAL 505 Our Road to War EDWARD SKILLIN, JR. A DANGER once past is easy to belittIe especially when another of even greater potentialities has supplanted the...

American Social Prospect (July 1946)

278 THE COMMONWEAL July 5, 1946 Federal Government to intrude into the sacred precincts of the school curriculum or the selection of teachers." But the statement criticizes S 18I as not going...

VETERANS" ON THE CAMPUS (April 1946)

Veterans on the Campus A new sort of student makes his presence felt Edward Skillin, J r . F ROM ALL I hear many a veteran of the armed services in this war is having a rather rough time of...

Justice and the Social Order-The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization-A Wall to Paint On-Composer and Critic-The Other Side-Pange Lingua-The Autobiography of William Allen White-The Sikhs-Guerrilla Padre in Mindanao-The Power and the Glory (April 1946)

625 Books of the Week Justice and the Social Order. Emit Brunner, Harper. $3.00. The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization. Elton Mayo. Harvard Business School. $2.50. ONE might...

PRESCRIPTION FOR DEMOCRACY (January 1946)

359 Prescription for Democracy EDWARD SKILLIN, jr. NOW that the Japanese Emperor has renounced his divinity and a score of Nazi leaders are at the Nuremberg dock, it is easy to dismiss the...

ENTREPRENEUR UNDER SIX FLAGS (October 1945)

October i9, i945 THE COMMONWEAL i9 Entrepreneur Under Six Flags EDWARD SKILLIN, JR. C OME WAR, depression, social revolution, there are always people who know how to land on their feet and...

NO UNEMPLOYMENT (September 1945)

578 THE COMMONWEAL September 28, 1945 No Unemployment EDWARD SKILLIN, JR. FIFTEEN YEARS have passed since the need for finding a workable way of keeping our vast productive powers going was so...

MISSOURI VALLEY AUTHORITY (August 1945)

Missouri Valley Authority America's greatest single peace project Edward Jr. T HOSE familiar with it call the Missouri River "Big Muddy," or our own Yellow River. From its sources in the Wyoming...

RENEWING A FRIENDSHIP (July 1945)

354 THE COMMONWEAL July 27, 1945 Renewing a Friendship EDWARD SKILLIN, 46V NOUGH unpacking for one night," said -11:4 Davison to himself as he snapped his grip shut, swung it off the...

WHEN WE'RE GREEN (March 1945)

544 THE COM MON WEAL March 16, 1945 When We're Green EDWARD SKILLIN, Jr. YEARS before I came to know at firsthand such highlights of living in a big unfriendly metropolis as the...

MORE BOOKS OF THE WEEK (January 1945)

More Books of the Week Cannery Row. John Steinbeck. Viking. $2.OO. WELL, it is about the people who live in "Cannery Row" where they can sardines out in California, but it is not about...

WHY RURAL LIFE? (December 1944)

Why Rural Life? The good life on the land and how to make it available Edward Skillin, jr. AN ANNUAL crop of several servings of string beans and a few dozen tomatoes— plus the maintenance of...

IS THIS OUR LINE? (August 1944)

Is This Our Line? EDWARD SKILLIN, JR. IT IS NOT often that an observer of American Catholic magazines is able to detect any concentration of direction in the articles which they feature. In...

A NOTE ON SINARQUISM (June 1944)

A Note on Sinarquism A Mexican movement of "National regeneration" Edward Skillin, Jr. IT IS an old story. Considering the columns of praise of Mussolini's Italy up to 1940, of the Austrian...

MAKING THINGS TICK (May 1944)

Making Things Tick EDWARD SKILLIN, Jr. OF ALL the nation's postwar perplexities, none is more mystifying than that of maintaining and expanding production—of keeping America's workers...

THE WEEK (April 1944)

Foreign Policy SECRETARY HULL'S 17-point statement of American foreign policy says a lot of very obvious things and includes many generalities with which one is forced to agree. And of course his...

EDITORS' CHOICE (March 1944)

Editors' Choice TRADITIONAL CHINESE TALES. Edited and translated by Chi-Chen Wang. Columbia. $2.75. CONTEMPORARY CHINESE STORIES. Edited and translated by Chi-Chen Wang. Columbia. $2.75. BLESSED...

THE WEEK (March 1944)

THE WEEK American Foreign Policy ALTHOUGH the United States has yet to register a major military victory in the field, little doubt remains that our political democracy can fight a war with all...

EDITORS' CHOICE (March 1944)

Editors' Choice The Church and the Liberal Society. Emmet John Hughes. Princeton. $3.00. Victory without Peace. Roger Burlingame and Alden Stevens. Harcourt. $2.75. Palestine, Land of Promise....

THE GILBERTS (March 1944)

The Gilberts EDWARD SKILLIN, Jr. FOUR months ago at Tarawa atoll in the Gilbert Islands United States Marines encountered the fiercest resistance in the Pacific war; they were "the first American...

THE WEEK (March 1944)

THE WEEK "No Law nor Restraint" PIUS XII's speech of March 12 surely expressed the yearning and hope of substantially every Italian; and it expressed a principle to which we have constantly...

THE WEEK (March 1944)

THE WEEK The President and Congress TENSION after so many months of war and excitement over the approaching election heightened the bad feeling that flared up over Mr. Roosevelt's veto message on...

EDITORS' CHOICE As We Go Marching-The Innocents at Cedro (February 1944)

Editors' Choice As We Go Marching. John T. Flynn. Doubleday. $2.00. The Innocents at Cedro. R. L. Duffus. Macmillan. $2.00. Campaign Document or Diagnosis? THE freedom of speech which to a very...

THE WEEK (February 1944)

Diversity in Unity IT IS a commentary on our ignorance of Russian history that the decision of the Supreme Soviet to transform "the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs from a Union People's...

EDITORS' CHOICE Languages for War and Peace-Winter Wheat (February 1944)

Editors' Choice Languages for War and Peace. Mario A. Pet. Vanni. $5.00. Winter Wheat. Mildred Walker. Harcourt. $2.50. Languages in the World TELUGU and Cheremiss and Buryat or Amharic and Quechua...

THE WEEK (February 1944)

The Week What National Planning Involves CONCERN over the nation's lack of an ade-quate plan for transformation to peacetime economy is growing. There seems to be some progress in the right...

EDITORS' CHOICE Sunburst-The Signpost (January 1944)

Editors' Choice Sunburst. Mauricio Magdaleno. Viking. $2.50. The Signpost. E. Arnot Robertson. Macmillan. $2.50. Mexican Novel ANITA BRENNER presents us with a remarkably smooth and flowing...

THE WEEK (January 1944)

THE WEEK What We Mean by Planning FOR SEVERAL WEEKS in these columns we have been lamenting the lack of post-war planning for our national economy. Perhaps some of our readers have wondered what...

EDITORS' CHOICE The Running Tide-The Displacement of Population in Europe-Europe's Children (November 1943)

Editors' Choice The Running Tide. Irina Aleksander. Duett. $2.50. The Displacement of Population in Europe. Eugene M. Kulischer. International Labor Office, Montreal. $1.50. {American agent: Miss...

THE WEEK (November 1943)

THE WEEK UNRRA THE PROGRESS that has been made in the direction of thinking internationally is indicated by the first reports coming from the Atlantic City meeting of the United Nations Relief and...

POSTWAR TREATY MAKING (November 1943)

Postwar Treaty Making An inquiry into current American procedure in the light of present needs Edward Skillin, jr. THE HEADLINE read, "Moscow Declara tion Put Into Connally Resolution," with...

THE WEEK (November 1943)

THE WEEK Why Scrap It? BY DINT of four coal strikes since last May John L. Lewis's United Mine Workers have bullied our hard-pressed nation into granting their wage increase demands virtually to...

EDITOR'S CHOICE Jan Smuts-What Men Live By (November 1943)

Editors' Choice Jan Smuts. F. S. Crafford. Doubleday. $3.50. What Men Live By. Leo Tolstoy. Pantheon. $2.50. Afrikaans Olympian PRECOCITY sometimes leads to preoccupation with learning for its...

THE WEEK (November 1943)

THE WEEK Armistice, World Government Day THE CEREMONIES which surround November 11 every year of course not only honor the men who have fallen in the service of our country, but also signify our...

EDITORS' CHOICE Flower of Evil-Indigo-House of Bread (November 1943)

Editors' Choice FLOWER OF EVIL. Edwin Morgan. Sheed. $3.00. INDIGO. Christine Weston. Scribners. $2.50. HOUSE OF BREAD. C. J. Eustace. Longmans. $2.25. Baudelaire BAUDELAIRE'S is not an easy life...

EDITORS' CHOICE The Fruits of Fascism-The Case for Christianity-Roundup Time (October 1943)

Editors' Choice The Fruits of Fascism. Herbert Matthews. Harcourt. $3.00. Roundup Time. Edited by George Sessions Perry. Whittlesey. $3.00. The Case for Christianity. C. S. Lewis. Macmillan....

THE WEEK (October 1943)

Pulling the Lion's Tail A PROPER CAUTION and prudence is al-ways to be exercised by a nation in dealing with an ally, for there is very little disinterestedness in the treatment of one state by...

DISTRIBUTION, THERE'S THE RUB (October 1943)

poured into the camps and many persons have left to accept these jobs. The government pays the train fare to the destination of each evacuee and in addition makes a grant of fifty dollars which...

POST-WAR LIFE OF RILEY? (September 1943)

Post-war Life of Riley? Business has plans that may greatly modify the return to peace-time life By Edward Skillin, jr. DRUDGERY is to be virtually eliminated from the American home of the...

Kolkhozes for America (August 1943)

Tkt COMMONWEAL volume xxxviii August 6, 1943 number 16 THE WEEK 383 SICILIAN LAUDS Euphemia Van Rensselaer...

VICTORY VEGETABLES (May 1943)

March 19, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL b39 operating, and the peasants' trade in salt pork in 1843, just one hundred years ago. And...

JOLT FROM A COMMUTER (January 1943)

January 15, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 323 is rottenness at the core of almost everything it pressed in two sentences. Speaking of...

ANTIGONISH TEN YEARS AFTER (December 1942)

232 THE COMMONWEAL December 18, 1942 devoted their whole...

WINNING THE PEACE (November 1942)

98 THE COMMONWEAL November 13, 1942 May Day speech of...

BELIEF IN THE COMMON MAN (August 1942)

368 Belief in the Common Man The new watchword, a new book, and a few elementary reflections. By Edward Skillin, Jr. IN CASTING ABOUT for a phrase that would bring out the positive aspects of...

DERNIERE CLASSE, U. S. '42 (April 1942)

614 THE COMMONWEAL April I o, 1942 at Manhattan College, conducted by the Christian Brothers, and an after-school job as well. He is now trying to get Michael a part-time job on...

ARMCHAIR HUSBANDRY (March 1942)

even of some intriguing lawyer. The State with a poked out his tongue in derision at his own mir-capital S. Ha ha .... rored image. Then he consoled himself: Jacomet Frightened, he faced his...

THE WEEK (October 1941)

THE WEEK Unrest in the Conquered Countries BOUND to the rock, Andromeda awaited Perseus for deliverance. Her pure unchangeable form, more beautiful than those of the sea nymphs, isolated in...

THE WEEK (October 1941)

THE WEEK The Ship Strike THE SHIP strike which tied up vessels carrying material to our Caribbean bases and engaged in Latin American and coastwise traffic shows a great complexity of forces at...

THE WEEK (September 1941)

THE WEEK Why All the Shooting? THERE SEEMS to be altogether too much A fuss and flying feathers over expected shortages and restrictions in the offing for the American consumer. The prospect of a...

THE WEEK (September 1941)

THE WEEK Starvation as a Weapon IN ALL the talk about the four freedoms, the Hitler menace and the cause of democracy, the plight of Europe's conquered peoples seems forgotten over here. And yet...

STRAIGHT-TIME TOWN (July 1941)

Straight-Time Town Austin, Minnesota, where Hormel's packing enterprise keeps things humming all year round. By Edward Skillin, Jr. IT HAS always been a puzzle what to do between trains. At...

THE WEEK (May 1941)

THE WEEK "Collaboration" and the Spectator EVER SINCE 1919 we have looked upon Europe and still we are at the play. Men and women are too small for the huge stage: we can see only nations. But,...

THE WEEK (May 1941)

THE WEEK After the Greek Campaign THE GERMANS announce the loss of some eleven hundred officers and men; the British list their casualties at some three thousand; the Germans claim nine thousand...

THE WEEK (May 1941)

THE WEEK THERE ARE certain realities which one's dis- taste for the President's personal attack on Colonel Lindbergh's character must not obscure. The problem concerned incompatibility of functions:...

THE WEEK (May 1941)

THE WEEK Facing the Facts IN HIS press conference held April 18, when the American Society of Newspaper Editors was in session in Washington, President Roosevelt stressed the gravity of America's...

THE WEEK (April 1941)

THE WEEK The Pope's Easter Message A LTHOUGH Pius XII spoke to men "in the spirit of alleluia of Easter morn," his was a soberer utterance than usually comes from the Father of Christendom on the...

CATHOLIC PRESS AND THE ELECTION (November 1940)

50 THE COMMONWEAL November 1, 1940 Catholic Press and the Election By Edward Skillin, Jr. I T IS SAID that the combined circulation of Catholic periodicals in the United States is somewhere...

GIVE BUFFALO CREDIT (October 1940)

Give Buffalo Credit The first 10,000 is the hardest; who started it, who enlisted and...

WHY BIO-DYNAMICS? (September 1940)

404 THE COMMONWEAL September 6, 1940 the moral order of the world. He proclaims with- difficult the practice of religion and...

OPPOSING THE REVOLUTION (June 1940)

June 28, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 207 friend, Frederich William of Nassau-Orange, communities further east and refused to...

GRANGER HOMESTEADS (May 1940)

Granger Homesteads What goes on in Iowa could go on...

GROWING THEIR OWN (April 1940)

THERE IS SOMETHING unhealthy in the concentration whereby one-fifth of one percent of all industrial corporations hold 52 percent of the nation's corporate assets. Even more unwholesome is the...

NEW HOUSES AND NEW MEN (August 1939)

New Houses and New Men Nova Scotia miners raise themselves nearer security through cooperation. By Edward Skillin, Jr. T O ANYONE at all familiar with coal mining districts in eastern...

Books (March 1938)

March 4, 1938 The Commonweal 527 Boos B. ALTMAN & CO. The Prophet of Disaster Hearken unto the Voice, by Franz Werfel; translated by Moray Firth. New York: The Viking Press. $3.00. ALTHOUGH the...

Books (February 1938)

February 4, 1938 The Commonweal 415 Book Spiritual Beauty Song at the Scaffold, by Gertrud von le Fort; translated by Olga Marx. New York: Sheed and Ward. $I.00. Hymns to the Church, by Gertrud...

Headquarters for Co-ops (October 1937)

October 29, 1937 The Commonweal 13 Austrian independence, nothing more, is the aim of Schusnigg's foreign policy_ In ever greater numbers the Austrians are coming to believe that the restoration of...

Books (September 1937)

Books The Elemental Life The Song of the World, by Jean Giono; translated by Henri Fluchere arid Geoffrey Myers. New York: The Viking Press. $2.50. THE DREAM of la vie sattvage—an elemental...

Books (April 1937)

Books To the North Canada, by Andre Siegfried. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. t t \ MERICA COMES OF AGE" and "England's* l\. Crisis" proved Andre Siegfried to be a...

Books (April 1936)

April 17, I936 T/ e Commonweal 699 Philosopher and Builder My Life in ,4rchitecture, by Ralph ~4dams Cram. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.5o. I N REGARD to his attitude toward...

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