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TEN YEARS LATER Nov. 2, 1934 /CONSIDERABLY more than ten years ago, in the ^ troubled years following the close of the World War, small groups of Catholic laymen—the most of whom were graduates...

Notes for an Unfinished Article (October 1949)

Notes for an Unfinished Article Words of encouragement for the Mendi- cant Press, the beggars of Publishers'...

A RUSSIAN IN EARLY SAN FRANCISCO (May 1945)

6 6 THE COMMONWEAL May 4, 1945 turn in European politics to include the whole coast of California in the Russian possessions. The Spaniards are very weak in this country, and if in 1798, when war...

A NOTE ON ADAM MICKIEWICZ (March 1945)

March 16, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 541 A Note on Adam Mickiewicz MICHAEL WILLIAMS SOME WEEKS AGO the editors of The ComMONWEAL sent me the monumental edition of the poems, and of some of...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK (February 1945)

Books of the Week Poems by Adam Mickiewicz. Edited by George Rapall Noyes. The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences. $4.00. STRICTLY speaking, as the editor of this anthologypoints out...

AMERICA'S PEACE POTENTIAL (January 1945)

January 12, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 325 America's Peace Potential MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE HEADING above this article is not original, having been adapted from a most remarkable article by Mr. Gill...

LETTER FROM MICHAEL WILLIAMS (November 1944)

58 THE COMMONWEAL Novembcr 3, 1944 Letter from Michael Williams Westport, Connecticut. TO the Kditors: Your letter telling me that you are planning the twentieth anniversary number of...

BOMBS OVER AMERICA (August 1944)

Bombs Over America MICHAEL WILLIAMS HARRY SYLVESTER'S valuable article, "Mexico and The War," in The Commonweal for June 30, contained a passing reference to a matter on which I hope Mr....

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1943)

640 THE COMMONWEAL April 16, 1943 in hatred. Should their Dail Eirann have been possible without the violence...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1943)

614 THE COMMONWEAL April 9, 1943 melody of the beautiful songster of the prairie, answer...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1943)

March 26, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL b65 Two imbedded themselves on the opposite wall. Another tured...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1943)

March 19, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL b41 low circular bed is dug and lined with straw. Potatoes are piled into this to the height of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1943)

March 12, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL b17 chickens running from a hawk-only they weren't methods in...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1943)

494 THE COMMONWEAL March 5, 1943 up, as they do in Madison Square when intellec- Koestler,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1943)

February 26, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 467 bean and South American outlook and practice in interracial matters. They are the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1943)

February i9, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 4.4.3 The letter ended with the quotation from a excited...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1943)

420 THE COMMONWEAL February 12, 1943 must be admitted that the Muscovites have worked hard for their disproportionate power....

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1943)

396 THE COMMONWEAL February 5, 1943 In a practical sense, the neutrality of the state-if it is ...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1943)

January 29, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 371 known "Buddhist traits" of Christianity, and as Sidotti than deportation, arguing that...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1943)

January 22, 1943 THE COMMMMONWEAL 347 The most recent type of conductor is the travel- ing conductor, the virtuoso of the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1943)

January 8, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 299 Robledo, professor of International Law at the ...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1943)

January 1, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 275 fellow Germans, "that despite everything, she is honors of Kaiser and Republic...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1942)

December i 8, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 227 "Whenever a situation becomes desperate, send Will know man's earthly...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1942)

204 T1-IL COMMONWEAL December 1 i, 1942 without antecedent discussions with elements within the conquered nations. As...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1942)

172 THE COMMONWEAL December 4, 1942 OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1942)

X42 THE COMMONWEAL November 27, 1942 A Negro soldier, Sergeant Thomas Foster, taken away, and the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1942)

120 THE COMMONWEAL November 20, 1942 Suzy Goes to Mexico. Mary Carney Thielmann. Photographs by Joseph Carl...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1942)

November 13, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 93 Thomas of Tobago, he should eschew the follies American...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1942)

70 THE COMMONWEAL November 6, 1942 reformation of society and the downfall of the old that they are not servants of this tradition. What bourgeois world, in order to free art. If nazi Ger- ...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1942)

614 Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS WHEN the active editors of The Commonweal suggested that this column might be helpful to their plan of devoting the current issue, of Columbus...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1942)

the long run be even more influential than his work in architecture seems to me to 'be highly probable. And Cram's respect for truly aristocratic values, and his suggestions for their practical...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1942)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS \ GOODLY PORTION of the most interesting /I reading matter which reaches this department comes from helpful, and in many cases unknown, readers of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1942)

542 Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE Brooklyn Tablet has performed a highly beneficial service not only for its own community but for the nation by its handling of the news, and its...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1942)

517 Views & Reviews BY (MICHAEL WILLIAMS AN UNSIGNED LETTER to the writer of this column differs sharply from the great majority of anonymous letters in that it is neither abusive or...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1942)

and legendary origins of the nazi gospel of "geopolitics." "Well, I am putting together some of my notes," he replied, a bit reluctantly, as if his thoughts were still pursuing the radio advertisers...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1942)

446 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL W1LL1JMS IT IS to be most sincerely hoped that the blast of reckless condemnation, let loose in so many quarters almost simultaneously, directed against the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1942)

law, nevertheless, so clear and instructive and ample is the main course of the study, that its perusal and meditation cannot fail to reward and enrich lay readers. Probably, many such lay readers...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1942)

done, in spite of the supposedly superior claims of their racial passion. What I have alluded to as the day-by-day, newspaper-view, so to speak, of the world at war: of the world boiling and...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1942)

372 Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS AS IT HAPPENED, it was on a Sunday that I read Mr. John J. O'Connor's new book, "The Catholic Revival in England"—one of The Christendom Series...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1942)

Views & T^eviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS ONE of the readers of this column has very kindly sent me a copy of Catholic International, to which curious and, as it now appears, very deplorable...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1942)

326 Views & Reviews BY (MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE Catholic Digest under the able direction of Father Paul Bussard and his staff has increasingly become a potent force for the advancement of the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1942)

Views &<l^eviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS THERE are increasing signs of the growth of interest in the relation of religion to public affairs, even on the part of active, professional politicians, which...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1942)

279 Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS A RECENT despatch from Vatican City brought the welcome news that the Pope had recovered from an attack of influenza and would be able to carry...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1942)

253 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS ONCE MORE the movement toward cooperation among Protestants and Catholics in England has produced notable fruit. Mr. George Barnard, the London...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1942)

ject in the United States may follow the trail blazed by Mr. O'Sullivan in England and will give us a study of the adoption and growth and development under American conditions of the fundamental...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1942)

Views & T^eviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE New York Times on last Monday, June 8, began the publication of a series of six articles distributed by the Religious News Service maintained by the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1942)

prise. Doran Hurley, the novelist, in an article dealing with the gallery, most aptly links Sister Mary Joseph's achievement to the pioneering spirit of her congregation, the Sisters of Loretto at...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1942)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE New York Times gave prominent position and ample space last Sunday (May 24) to a highly significant pastoral letter issued in Spain by the Bishop of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1942)

because far too large a proportion of the daily and weekly papers of vast circulation and, presumably, wielding the greatest measure of influence was "monopolized by a handful of concerns...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1942)

It is the German portmanteau word meaning "a man's theory of what everything is all about," the word Weltanschauung, that Mr. Woodlock has in mind in adopting his own expression, the title of his...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1942)

61 Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAM BY MICHAEL IT SEEMED BEST to pay the necessary visit to the registration place, and fulfill the duty required by the selective service law, on the morning...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1942)

subtle and dangerous essay He is essentially presenting a case in favor of the appeasement of our enemies He seems to intend the conditioning of the minds of his readers to the acceptance of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1942)

13 Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS PRESIDENT ROOBEVELT'S request for some simple, popular and comprehensive title for the present world war may not directly result in the selection of such...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1942)

646 THE COMMONWEAL April 17 , x94 ~through a whole galaxy of national patriots, is possessed of a firm, even of a touching confidence in the essential goodness of the institutions whereby he is...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1942)

April IO, I942 THE COMMONWEAL 6x7 72ie os Tvevie s BY ,~IICHdEL WILLIdM$ D URING the first World War the late Justice Oliver Wendell Homes of the Supreme Court in upholding the Espionage Act...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1942)

April 3, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL in a midnight-blue velvet mantle, had on her right Saint John, in deep blue satin robes, and on her left Mary Magdalene, wearing yellow satin. Purple-garbed...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1942)

March 27, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 56I Views Tv views For what they may be worth to those who may take a practical interest in this grave problem, in Washington or elsewhere, my personal opinions...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1942)

THE COMMONWEAL March zo, I94z States but knew what Canada, with its small popu- lation and limited resources, is doing in this war, how great is its contribution to the defense of this...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1942)

March I3, t942 THE COMMONWEAL forces. There are many who ought not be given their freedom. I am suggesting, that, after a strict investigation, careful consideration, using the same system...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1942)

March 6, x942 T H E C 0 M where he released it, and posted himself as a guard of one to await its recovery. A crowd of small and bigger boys, and a number of grown ups soon gathered about him,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1942)

462 THE COMMONWEAL February 27, I942 Views Tveviews BY ~IICHAEL WILLIAMS A RECENT address given by Dr. Ernst W. Meyer, visiting professor of political science at Bucknell University,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1942)

February t3, x942 THE COMMONWEAL 4t3 stopping bleeding from arteries and veins. Finally someone asked whether feet falling asleep had anything to do with the case. "The cells get sort of tired,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1942)

February 6, x942 THE COMMONWEAL 391 the British Empire, if Russia should overrun Germany in the meantime and if, just as suddenly, a victorious Russia should take the stand of protector of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1942)

January 23, x942 THE COMMONWEAL 341 written" "The citizen of a democracy should be guaranteed, as of right, enough food to maintain him in health. He should be assured of a minimum standard of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1942)

3x8 THE COMMONWEAL January t6, x9r Catholics have not yet come to realize the neces- sity of educational endowments. And on educa- tional policy he says, "Now we see in the reaction led by Robert...

Views and Reviews (January 1942)

January 9, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 293 will ask Coleman's help with a younger man. "The kid's got ability but he runs with a drinking crowd. See what you can do." Usually Coleman does something. In...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1942)

26S THE COMMONWEAL January 2, I94z to see that scouting was made for boys, and not boys for scouting. Our Mike, apparently, is not much more than a decimal point to him, but to me he is a good...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1941)

244 THE COMMONWEAL December 26, 1941 the canvas down as the wind was at gale propor- tions. As we swung about into the wind for that purpose we came full into the trough of the waves and...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1941)

THE COMMONWEAL December x 9, I94r Nations the statesmen of every nation cared solely for their selfish national interests and that cooperation between them for the common good was unknown is...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1941)

December I2, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 197 American public sentiment to the Allied cause. Under George Creel's Division of Films of the Committee of Public Informationmthe official government...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1941)

x76 THE COMMONWEAL December 5, I94I |~ _ COLLEGE OF SAINT TERF.SA Winona4 Minnesota For tke Hillloer Education d Catholic Women Holds membership in the North Central Association of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1941)

I42 T H E C O M ine that the repentance necessary for forgiveness means some easy pardoning and letting off of suf- fering. If it could be brought home to anyone responsible for deluging God's...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1941)

I20 THE COMMONWEAL November 2I, I94I same thing happened in almost every other manu- facturing center along the coast. Shanghai gone Surveying the loss, Dr. Kung, Alley and their friends...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1941)

9 2 THE COMMONWEAL he is recovered, we are gratified to find that he has evidently cast in his lot with us as an all-the-yearround friend; and we can look forward to other generations of his...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1941)

November 7, I94I THE COMMONWEAL 69 this strange tendency, until nowadays we have arrived at the solemn gloom of funeral parlors, wakes, austre-faced undertakers, and cello solos over theatrically...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1941)

October 3 t, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 45 Children should be taught in school those things which they need to know and which they are unlikely to learn at home, at church, from newspapers,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1941)

x4 THE COMMONWEAL October z4, x94x read reams of it to you. As that cannot be, the next best thing is that you buy the book and read it to your friends. It will be a good way of dis- covering...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS WHILE it is most difficult to judge correctly as to what immediate, practical results may follow the public raising of the issue of religious freedom in Russia-...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS PERHAPS no living fiction writer, at least among English writers, wields the power of the scientific imagination in anything like the degree exercised for so...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS HAVING published in this column a memorandum written by critics of the Irish censorship, I have received from the Dublin government the following reply: "The...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS AS A SUPPORTER of the Fight for Freedom Committee's stand in the war controversy, I naturally read the Reverend Florence D. Cohalan's article in the September...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS I AM VERY grateful to the publishers of the latest version of one of the greatest books in the world, Harper & Brothers, for sending me a copy of the "Imitation...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS N REFERRING last week to the projected meeting of the representatives of many scientific and theological groups at Columbia University, I also mentioned the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS AMONG many other statements issued by groups and organizations seeking to interest the American public and to obtain support for the policies or plans or ideals...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS I HOPE that "France On Berlin Time," by Thomas Kernan (J. B. Lippincott, $2.75), chosen by the Catholic Book Club, will also be widely (and wisely) chosen by...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE SHIFTS and dodges and somersaults, the twist-ings and wrigglings of our American communists, especially of their publicity agents, in striving to explain...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1941)

Views & Reviews BY {MICHAEL WILLIAMS IT IS to be hoped that the New York Times will follow up the article by Harold Callender in its August 3 issue by other articles in which Mr. Callender will...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS NOW COMES Archbishop Beckman of Dubuque, Iowa, calling upon Catholics in the United States to bombard their senators and congressmen on behalf of the strictly...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1941)

350 THE COMMONWEAL Macedonia or Navarre there are very few dass distinctions." My friend's eyes were now wide open with horror. "That's terrible," he said. "That's worse than I...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIJMS ERIC GILL'S "Autobiography,'' the latest Catholic Book Club choice (Devin-Adair, $3.50), is in many respects one of the most notable of the volumes sponsored by...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1941)

Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS IN HIS very notable radio address on Sunday, July 6, the Bishop of St. Augustine, Most Reverend Joseph P. Hurley, expressed points of view which should give...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE EFFORTS made by nazi and fascist propagandists in Rome and elsewhere, in advance of the Pope's broadcast last Sunday, to create the impression that the Holy...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1941)

Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS UP TO THE VERY HOUR in which on a front extending over two thousand miles from north to south the Nazi massed armies, preceded by storms of aerial bombardment,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS I HOPE that it will not seem too presumptuous, nor too personal, in the objectionable sense of that word, to say something in this column concerning the appeal...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS EUGENE BAGGER has joined the great and evergrowing body of writers of books about the war and the world revolution of which the war is but one manifestation-and...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1941)

Views & Reviews BY (MICHAEL WILLIAMS) THE CLOUD of rumors which were spread throughout the world in advance of the Pope's Pentecostal radio speech to the effect that the speech would be an urgent...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1941)

COMMONWEAL THE June 6, I94t - - b u t there are many ways to sing." And he re- sumed his clapping. I am sure, however, he was applauding his friend, and not his friend's singing. I always...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS IN REVIEWING a new book by Benedetto Croce, the Italian philosopher and historian, Professor Arthur Livingston of Columbia University, in the May 18 issue of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS THERE were many notable points of high public importance in a recent address made by the Most Reverend Joseph P. Hurley, Bishop of St. Augustine, Florida (as...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS IN RE-READING recently some of the chapters of Lewis Mumford's valuable book, "Faith for Living," I was particularly impressed by the observations of a personal...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WI LLIAMS IT IS a very notable event that will take place in Kansas City, Missouri, on May 22, when a group of philosophers, sociologists, theologians, labor leaders and...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1941)

Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS IN RAISING his voice against the type of discussion of the war issues which is harped upon so insistently by many pacifist intellectuals and university students...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS FROM Father W. Howard Bishop, formerly a rural pastor in Maryland, and now the head of the Home Missioners of America, I have received a number of copies of The...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1941)

658 THE COMMONWEAL April 18, 1941 Views & Reviews BY JWICHAEL WILLLIMS SPONSORED by the National Conference of Chris- ti tians and Jews, three leading members of that organition, who also are...

COMMUNICATIONS (April 1941)

April II, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 621 Views & 7e:views BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS ALTHOUGH when the book on which I comment this week arrived there were several others awaiting attention, most of them...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1941)

598 THE COMMONWEAL April 4, 1941 Views & `ked.views BY JIIICHAEL WILLLIMS ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY, at Antigo- nish, Nova Scotia, held a faculty meeting on March 5 last, which resulted in a...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1941)

March 21, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 541 I am lost in this blending of bloods and find myself engaged in positive action, hardly a critic but definitely moving along as part of it and will stick till we...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1941)

5i8 THE COMMONWEAL March 14, 1941 Views & keviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS LAST NIGHT (February 27)—I am writing on a train—I was one of several speakers who addressed an audience of about seven...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1941)

494 THE COMMONWEAL March 7, 1941 account of present circumstances of life in France, that there will be some delay in its being made public. In the meantime I merely said what I knew. I am...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1941)

472 THE COMMONWEAL February 28, x941 offset by some new addition to our already inflated selling costs. Clearly therefore the essential prerequisite to security is the transfer of a large part of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1941)

Dews & kevtews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS EBRUARY should not pass without discussion of the great Catholic interests at stake in the particular "intention" recommended by the National Catholic Welfare...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1941)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS NOTHING has so cheered and strengthened the writer of these weekly jottings—which of late have more than ever deserved that rather lightweight caption, as he...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1941)

February 7, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 399 Views & evews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS W ILLA CATHER'S quality as an artist is tested by the spirit of our age; as all things, and all persons, are, or must be,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1941)

January 31, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 373 Views & eviews BY SVIICHJEL WILLI.dMS DOROTHY THOMPSON influences the thinking, as well as the emotions, of so many readers, that it is a pity to see her...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1941)

AS A PRELUDE to what follows, and because only in this column may I hope to be read by those for whom this note is chiefly intended, may I say that those readers who are "offended" or "alarmed" or...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1941)

M R. PATRICK SCANLAN'S attempt in the Brooklyn Tablet to put Mr. George Shuster in his proper place was not read by me until after my attention had been called to the high merits of Mr. Scanlan as...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1941)

302 THE COMMONWEAL January Jo, 1941 th nazidom ; Catholic Spain may do the same. If freedom and justice and unconstrained religion in the immediate future really depend on the issue of this war,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1941)

January 3, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 279 LORD HALIFAX'S appointment as Ambassador from Great Britain to the United States well may have, among other fortunate results, the effect of removing a source of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1940)

December 27, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 253 found, and in most cases the teacher perished with them. My father stayed up the entire night—going out into the yard frequently and hallooing to attract the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1940)

December 20, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 229 take of not taking him seriously: "No, my friend," he laughed "the storm troopers will not let Him in!" But the orator, filled with prophetic fury, shouted:...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1940)

December 13, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 205 tures when the situation specifically calls for them. However, when on the screen we see a tremendous outburst of nature—for instance a tornado—the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1940)

150 THE COMMONWEAL November 29, 194o Views & Reviews BY XICH2IEL WILLIIMS S UNDAY MASS today for this way-faring Catholic S was more than usually satisfying. He hastens to add that personal and...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1940)

126 THE COMMONWEAL November 22, 1940 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS WHEN Secretary of the Interior Ickes soon after the election issued a statement to the general effect that the fact that...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1940)

Vtews 75.vtews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS T HE Christian Social Action magazine for November carries an article by its energetic editor, Mr. L-G. Deverall, which is a shocking example of voluntary...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1940)

78 THE COMMONWEAL November 8, 1940 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS SEVERAL letters have reached me from readers of this department who also have been reading the book by Lawrence Dennis,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1940)

November 1, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 53 Mews & 5.7)tewLi BY MICHAEL IFILLLIMS F4THER JAMES M. GILLIS is a celebrated, even a famous American Catholic priest. The eminent position he occupies in...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1940)

October 25, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 21 Views Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS LOUIS ADAMIC has written a new book which I recommend with hearty good will for his main purpose, and with enthusiastic...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1940)

October 18, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL S27 ing such a view is to make one's self outrageously an optimist, but I should prefer...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1940)

510 THE COMMONWEAL October i 1, 1940 There is furthermore a high probability that a and most illustrious...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1940)

488 THE COMMONWEAL October 4, 1940 things on the stove. I was at that delicate part of a shave, the upper lip, when Albert...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1940)

428 THE COMMONWEAL September 13, 1940 less may it...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1940)

408 THE COMMONWEAL September 6, 1940 arts of music and poetry was decisive: "Poetry Sacraments. Second,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1940)

August 30, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 387 counterpart was the one delivered to Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, who is...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1940)

August 23, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 369 prehensive, unified defense plan. This would understood that the bases...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1940)

348 THE COMMONWEAL August 16, 1440 travel with a saint 1 One may add he kept his promise faithfully to send Bishop Lupus back...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1940)

328 THE COMMONWEAL August 9, 1940 material aspects....

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August 2, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 307 will be humanly unavoidable mistakes, and not mistakes arising from sheer...

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July 26, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 289 t ...

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July 12, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 249 business world, is...

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230 THE COMMONWEAL July 5, 1940 the conviction...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1940)

210 THE COMMONWEAL June 28, 1940 of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1940)

19o THE COMMONWEAL June 21, 1940 in connection with the Dies Committee. Gardner circularized the Washington...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1940)

168 THE COMMONWEAL June 14, 1940 When this is genuine freedom and not license, it is conducive to the development of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1940)

146 THE COMMONWEAL June 7, 1940 sary is to shift to fair employers the top 10 or 15 ...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1940)

124 THE COMMONWEAL May 31,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1940)

May 24, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 101 assured by many...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1940)

80 THE COMMONWEAL May 17, 1940 from the city's ten natural social and economic It is a situation and a...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1940)

6o THE COMMONWEAL May i o, 1940 And it is also...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1940)

April 26, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 17 humor." And there is a letter on page 153 of the second volume, with this comment:...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1940)

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET, in a recent review in the New York Herald Tribune of a group of new novels, opens up a highly interesting line of reflection concerned with the contemporary state of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1940)

M Y RECENT correspondence with Mr. John Chamberlain in this column, in which he explained how I had been (unintentionally) unfair to him through the use of an unverified quotation from one of his...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1940)

THE CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE is joining with all its well known energy and its wealth of practical experience in publicity and propaganda in the fight against the McLaughlin Bill which is to...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1940)

THAT BERTRAND RUSSELL will be confirmed in his appointment by the Board of Higher Education of New York City and will assume his post at City College amid the plaudits of the champions of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1940)

THE ARRIVAL of Hitler's diplomatic aide. Von Ribbentrop, at the Vatican to confer with the Pope on the Monday of Passion week arouses many speculations, surmises, guesses, rumors, great hopes and...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1940)

IN THIS COLUMN in our issue of March i, I quoted Dorothy Thompson's quotation from an article by John Chamberlain in The New Republic dealing with American youth as a text for a few remarks, and...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1940)

WHAT IS written below about a book which I am now reading should not be regarded as criticism or a review, in the technical sense of those two words, but rather as a preliminary report dealing...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1940)

DOROTHY THOMPSON in her syndicated article of February 19 quotes as a text for her valuable remarks on "Propaganda, Slogans and the Distrust of Words" the remarkable statement made by John...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1940)

AS LENT BEGINS in that portion of the Christian populations of the world where Lent still means something more than a conventionalized interim between winter weariness and worries and the coming...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1940)

IF I RETURN to a disagreeable subject, already treated in this column, suggested by "The Convent," the supposedly autobiographical account by Alyse Simpson of two years of experience as a novice...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1940)

FEBRUARY again brings round our annual "Catholic Press Month." Once more the Catholic newspapers— so-called—and the large number of magazines will quote the admonitions of Popes and Bishops and...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1940)

THE BLURB on the slip-cover of "The Convent" by Alyse Simpson, published by Alfred A. Knopf ($2.50), tells us that the book contains "a remarkable picture of life in a convent based upon the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1940)

CHRISTOPHER DAWSON'S recent articles in the London Tablet on "European Unity and the League of Nations" are very useful contributions to the literature which is intended to aid the efforts being...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1940)

SO MANY letters have reached me from so many diiferent parts of the country, and of such high quality in thought and expression, commenting upon my articles dealing with the German mystic,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1940)

THE OBJECTIONS raised by spokesmen for the Baptists and the Lutherans to President Roosevelt's appointment of a personal representative to the Vatican contrast sharply and strongly with the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1940)

IT WELL MAY be that future historians will record President Roosevelt's joint letter to Pope Pius XII, supreme head of the Catholic Church, to Dr. George A. B,uttrick, as representative of the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1939)

AVERY DIFFICULT work of exposition of a human character of quite exceptional perplexity and of great and enduring power has been accomplished by Helen MacKnight Doyle in her study, "Mary Austin:...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1939)

THE VERY COMPLETE nature of the exposure of the duplicity exercised by Soviet Russia in preaching, through its world-wide chain of direct and indirect agencies, the doctrines of democracy, while...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1939)

IMjUST apologize for my neglect to name the publisher of the book by Hieronymus Jaegen, "The Mystic Life of Graces," of which I wrote in this column two weeks ago, especially to those...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1939)

THE THREATENED general strike in the movie industry, it seems, has been averted, although its possibility remains as a future threat, not only in the world of moviedom, but in other industries;...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1939)

I HAVE BEEN reading a book by a former German soldier which contains much striking information concerning the situation of religion in Naziland and its prospects. Far more vividly than many a...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1939)

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S message to the people of England and the British Empire speaks a language which expresses clearly several highly important aspects of the world situation which are often...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1939)

A HIGHLY interesting suggestion was recently offered by William; Hillman, representative of Collier's Weekly in Europe, in a broadcast from London, to the effect that the absence up to this time...

ON CATHOLIC PUBLICITY (November 1939)

IHAVE BEEN asked by the editors of THE COMMONWEAL to write something for the fifteenth anniversary number on Catholic publicity. In doing so, I shall select a few points from the innumerable...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1939)

IT IS highly interesting and quite important news that Robert Hugh Benson's novel, "Lord of The World," is to be republished by Dodd Mead and Company, who hold the copyright, because, so I am...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1939)

RETURNING from one of my infrequent visits to the movies last night, I tried to obliterate from at least the surface of memory the impression of the newsreel photographs of devastated Poland....

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1939)

584 THE COMMONWEAL October 2o, I939 ring, flung out by mistake with some orange peelings. When he joined the community in choir he was be-cushioned before and behind and beneath. One day as he...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1939)

October 13, I939 THE COMMONWEAL 559 2iews views BY ~/IICHAgL WILLIAMS o NE PHRASE of Winston Churchill's radio speech last Sunday vividly calls attention to a tremendous fact of the world...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1939)

536 THE COMMONWEAL October 6, I939 BY , 3 1 r WILLIdM$ I I W HEN ROBINSON CRUSOE in the solitude and isolation of his island life philosophised about his condition and prospects he committed to...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1939)

September 29, I 9 3 9 THE COMMONWEAL 517 BY ,_%I I C H.d R L Ir I L L I . 4 M S i I T HE HIGHLY EFFICIENT publicity machine of the Nazis is part and parcel of their equally efficient war...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1939)

September 22, 193 9 THE COMMONWEAL 497 il ý84 PI )iews & 7 views BY ,~IICH.dEL WILLI~4MS | A MERICAN Catholics have two firm principles to guide their thinking, and aid them to control...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1939)

September 15, 1939 "FHE COh, l ih 7)jews & 7 views '11 BY ~qlICtI.,4EL HZlLLIAMS I N ADOLF HITLER'S proclamation to the German people--"ninety million human beings are united in the German...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1939)

September 8, 1939 THE COMMONWEAL 455 It 7.)Jews & 7 views BY ,.ffIICHAEL WILLIAM8 I F THE dreaded second world war begins, as seems probable as these words are written, the question of Soviet...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (September 1939)

September I, I939 T H E C O M finds counterpart in the modern story of the cat. We have no reliable statistics on cats, and no accredited breed registry. Somewhat more prolific than dogs, cats...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1939)

August 25, 1939 THE COMMONWEAL 417 BY ,5~IICHAEL WILLIAMS I I I HAVE RECEIVED from the publicity director of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, Mr. Victor Lo Pinto, a letter...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1939)

August I8, I939 THE COMMONWEAL 395 love of the Church and of the just state. The essential duty of Christians is "to love both countries, that of earth below and that of heaven above, yet in...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1939)

376 THE COMMONWEAL August I I , I939 BY ,.q/IICH..4F~L WILLIACM8 I I HAVE received a remarkable letter from, apparently, the secretary, or publicity agent, of a group of Catholic laymen, which...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1939)

August 4, 1939 THE COMMONWEAL 355 BY ~%IICH./IEL WILLIAMS I I WAS strongly impressed by a letter in last week's issue of THE COMMONWEAL by James D. Collins concerning the views of Christopher...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1939)

July 28, 1939 THE COMMONWEAL 335 [k 7)iews & 7 views BY ~q/IICHAEL WILLIAMS il A LETTER from the postulator of the cause of Mother Elizabeth Seton, the Reverend Sylvester Burgio, with whom I...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1939)

316 THE COMMONWEAL July 2I, I93 9 Views views BY ,.%IICHAEL WILLIAMS M ERELY to read such a book as the extraordinary study of communist propaganda in Chicago, the joint production of Professor...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1939)

July 14, 1939 THE COMMONWEAL 295 1 II Views & views BY ,.,q/I I C H.d E L 14" I L L I Z M 8 I I N THE MIDST of the deluge of international and domestic news of the most disturbing character...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1939)

July 7, I939 THE COMMONWEAL a75 ii Diews & views BY ,.~flCHAEL WILLIAMS O NLY THE OTHER DAY in a conversation that touched upon many topics, someone said that once, many years ago, he had known...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1939)

June 3 ~ , I939 THE COMMONWEAL 255 BY ~.q/IICHAEL WILLIAMS I I I HAVE BEEN GOING through an experience of a singular kind, not new to me, but always strange no matter how often it is...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1939)

236 THE COMMONWEAL June a 3, 1939 BY gM1CHdEL WILLIdM$ I i H AVING spoken first, in resuming this department, after a break of five weeks, concerning the crisis that in my opinion faces our...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1939)

June 16, 1939 THE COMMONWEAL 2II wasteful duplication of administrative machinery, ought not to be repeated here. The system abroad of administration by funds was more an accident of development...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (May 1939)

42 THE COMMONWEAL May 5, I939 BY ~q,IICHAEL WILLIAMS I ATTENDED MASS in St. Peter's yesterday, along with some 3o, ooo or 400oo others in the church, and countless thousands who heard one at...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1939)

~6 THE COMMONWEAL April 28, I939 In August, I922, the church was opened for public worship, but the building was not really finished until ten years later. On August 25, I932, the church was...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1939)

Views & Reviews BY (MICHAEL W1LLIJMS P)R Signora Antonia Miotti, and Signorine Virginia and Carolina Filipini, Maria Teresa Prinetti and Maria Vittoria Torri. OSPITALITA ITALIANA To write a...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1939)

Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS ANY AMERICAN traveling in Europe nowadays (the date-line of the one who is tapping out these notes is, Agrigento, Sicily, March 17), has the great...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1939)

659 Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS VATICAN CITY, March 9, I939-—Appeals for tickets for next Sunday's coronation keep pouring in to the harassed officials at all the embassies, all the...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1939)

634 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS IF THIS was a news report—and indeed it is something of the sort—it would begin with the formula, "Vatican City, March 3rd." However, the date...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (March 1939)

Views &Review$ BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS IF THIS particular column of The Commonweal displays more than its usual unevenness, and ups and downs and shiftings from side to side in thought...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1939)

Views & T^eyiews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS 1AM WRITING this column as best I may in the midst of all the flurry and fuss of packing bags (and hunting a lost passport!) as I prepare at less than...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1939)

Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS "SCIENCE in a free, democratic nation," said the voice from my radio, "wisely used in the service of humanity, and employing its three greatest...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1939)

435 Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS IN THE current number of the New Republic there is published an open letter to Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen by Ernest Sutherland Bates which is of great...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (February 1939)

Views &Reviws BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS DOROTHY THOMPSON, of course, is fully entitled to her strongly, not to say violently, expressed opinion expounded with passionate eloquence in her article in...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1939)

380 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS QECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ICKES did O not do so well in the selection of the evidence offered by him to support his charges against the American press in...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1939)

Views &'Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS AN OPEN letter to the Editors of the Nation: Dear Sirs: In your issue for January 7 you present your annual "list of American individuals and...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1939)

324 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS AS 1939 is substituted for 1938 on our letter-heads and newspaper date lines, those of us, probably a great number, who find it difficult to adjust our...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (January 1939)

Views & Reviews BY (MICHAEL WILLIAMS A DISPATCH written on Christmas day by William il L. Laurence, special correspondent of the New York Times, informs us that Richmond, Virginia, is to be...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1938)

Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS The magazine, Fortune, has published a series of editorials called "Business-and-Government," describing characteristics of the American system deemed...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1938)

Views &Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS IT IS becoming increasingly apparent that many Americans who are outraged by the manner in which the Nazi government is carrying out its racial policy,...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (December 1938)

Views &'Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS SPEAKING as a Catholic layman,1 may I suggest that tj this national outpouring of prayer on behalf of both the victims and the perpetrators of religious and...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1938)

Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLUMS A LTHOUGH the results of the national election very jT\ decidedly seem to have restored the Republican party to life, so much so that in all probability what...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1938)

99 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL IV1LL1AMS MR. GEORGE SELDES contributes a four-page article to the New Republic for November 9 entitled "Catholics and Fascists," a singularly muddled...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (November 1938)

44 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLUMS THE FRONT pages of the newspapers have so long been almost exclusively given over to news of violence—wars and revolutions; China, Spain,...

Views and Reviews (October 1938)

672 THE COMMONWEAL October 21, 1938 coming year: the group includes Monsignor Luigi Ligutti, Granger, Iowa, president of the conference, and Reverend James A. Byrnes, St. Paul, executive secretary....

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (October 1938)

October 14, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 641 by that time he was a fellow of Christ Church and All Souls and a professor of modern languages. During the Crimean War he published a grammar and phrase book...

Views and Reviews (October 1938)

612 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1938 Germany, Norway, Sweden and Czechoslovakia. Any study of all she has written or said about the federal theatre would reveal: that we could not build federal...

Views and Reviews (September 1938)

584 THE COMMONWEAI. September 30, 1938 PRINCE HUBERTUS LOEWENSTEIN is a young exile from Nazi Germany who recently told the public in his autobiography the exciting story of his personal struggle...

Views and Reviews (September 1938)

September 23, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 555 In regard to the station at Milan, here is a little American story. A lady and her small son came to Milan. The little boy admired the splendors of the...

Views and Reviews (September 1938)

528 THE COMMONWEAL September i 6, 1938 a tearful wail about how difficult readjustment is to that particular type of delicate plant life and how so many thoughtless people imagine psychic trauma is...

Views and Reviews (September 1938)

September 2, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 473 W HAT our Holy Father the Pope said to the missionary students at their summer quarters near Castel Gandolfo on Sunday, August 21, was spread before hundreds of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1938)

August 26, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL, 449 Views & 7eviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS AS THE huge German war machine created to serve the will of the Nazi masters of Central Europe swings into action, in spite...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1938)

August 19, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 429 ACCORDING to an editorial writer in the New York Times, "there is a growing belief that salvation lies in science." We have a vague impression that we have heard...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (August 1938)

408 THE COMMONWEAL August 12, 1938 one can imagine a fascinating screen record of the far-flung Jesuit preoccupations: their missions from Farm Street to India or the Philippines, their...

Views and Reviews (July 1938)

July 22, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 349 Views & eviews BY M1CH4EL WILLIJMS I T IS highly important news that was briefly sketched in a special dispatch to the New York Times from Washington, D. C., on...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1938)

July IS, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 323 hope. The law will have to be amended so that there will be no top-limit or a high one to be fixed by statute for wages, and so that the wages above $.40 that are...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1938)

296 THE COMMONWEAL July 8, 1938 Views €e 75view.r BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS C ARLETON BEALS describes in the July number of Harper's Magazine the network of Nazi propaganda and the German intrigues of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (July 1938)

270 THE COMMONWEAL July I, 1938 Thews el k'views BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS H EYWOOD BROUN, who was recently reelected to the presidency of the American Newspaper Guild, has signalized his leadership of...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1938)

June 24, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 241 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS THERE are so many important things well said in THERE statement on Spain made by the editorial directors of THE COMMONWEAL...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (June 1938)

June 10, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 183 THE GENEROUS tribute paid to THE COMMON-WEAL by Professor Mercier for the part it has played in the development of Catholic influence since its establishment...

Views and Reviews (June 1938)

June 3, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 157 Views & Reviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS M R. LEWIS MUMFORD'S "Call to Arms," in the May 18 number of the New Republic, is a curious and rather saddening example of a...

Views and Reviews (May 1938)

May 20, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL IOI two nights a week learning to cultivate garden plots of their own. You wonder, as I do, why you seem never to have any personal contact with these mass movements,...

Views and Reviews (May 1938)

May 13, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 73 Views & 7eviews BY MICHAEL WILLIAMS AT A COMMUNION breakfast in New York City recently a public official in the course of his address was reported by the press as...

Views and Reviews (May 1938)

May 6, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 45 Views & 7eviews BY .II CHAEL WILLIAMS D R. JOHN MIDDLETON, director of the Con-fraternity of Christian Doctrine in the New York Archdiocese, is far from being a...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1938)

April 22, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 721 just it might be well to leave his Protestant friends in His hands. "There is one other thing: if only I could find some excuse for the Protestant Reformation I...

VIEWS AND REVIEWS (April 1938)

April 15, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 691 We are all agreed, of course, that unless there be not only a great renewal but also a swift and certain and practical application of the truths taught by the...

Books (March 1937)

March 11, 1938 The Commonweal 555 Book The House of Heathendom The House that Hitler Built, by Stephen H. Roberts. New York: Harper and Brothers. $3.00. AMONG the many books constantly appearing...

Books (February 1938)

February 25, 1938 The Commonweal 499. Books The Wilfrid Wards B. ALTMAN & CO. FIFTH AVENUE 34TH STREET Insurrection versus Resurrection, by Maisie Ward. New York: Sheed and Ward. $3.75. THIS...

Books (October 1937)

Books Inviolable Persons The Good Society, by Walter Lippmann. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.00. FEW IF ANY American writers on political philosophy, and on practical political and...

Books (August 1937)

The Commonweal 406 August 20, i937 Books Highly Provocative The End of Democracy, by Ralph Adams Cram. Boston: Marshall Jones Company. $3.00. THE TITLE of this important and...

Blood and Tears (July 1937)

July 2, 1937 The Commonweal 257 BLOOD AND TEARS By MICHAEL WILLIAMS WHEN I was in Berlin in 1933, one of my most painful experiences in reporting the facts concerning the war on...

Books (July 1937)

Books Hitler's Heresy The Third Reich, by Henri Lichtenberger; translated and edited by Koppel S. Pinson. New York: The Greystone Press. $3.00. WHILE it is not difficult to perceive that to...

The Truth about Spain (June 1937)

June 25, 1937 The Commonweal 231 THE TRUTH ABOUT SPAIN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESS: NO. 5 By MICHAEL WILLIAMS EVEN though the American Newspaper Guild by no means has received the...

The Truth about Spain (June 1937)

June 4, 1937 The Commonweal THE TRUTH ABOUT SPAIN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESS: NO. 4 By MICHAEL WILLIAMS THAT the American press is not, to say the least, honestly candid in its news...

Spain's Sacrifice (verse) (May 1937)

Spain's Sacrifice (Processional hymn to be sung by Father Finn's chorus of one thousand voices made up of volunteers from many religious and civic singing societies and choirs during the Pageant...

Open Letter to Leaders of the American Press, on Spain (May 1937)

May 7, 1937 The Commonweal OPEN LETTER TO LEADERS OF THE AMERICAN PRESS, ON SPAIN By MICHAEL WILLIAMS a 10 THE Directors, Stock Holders, ¦ Editors and Writers of the American Press. —...

Books (April 1937)

Books Two Indespensable Books Damien the Leper, by John Farrow. New York: Sheed and Ward. $2.50. Saint Francis de Sales, by Michael Mutter. New York: Sheed and Ward. $2.25. BY ONE of those...

Week by Week (April 1937)

Week by Week ANOTHER week of seething labor unrest has passed, and on the surface it almost looks as if the stability of industrial relations has been undermined for a long time to The come....

Degradation of Democracy (April 1937)

DEGRADATION OF DEMOCRACY By MICHAEL WILLIAMS WE PRINT elsewhere (page 671) a letter signed by Van Wyck Brooks and R. L. Duffus objecting strongly to the views set forth in this journal (issue of...

Week by Week (April 1937)

Week by Week The Trend of Events THE MAJOR public question during the week undoubtedly was: what can be done to insure at least a measure of peace in the world? Japan's unwillingness to adhere...

Week by Week (April 1937)

Week by Week The Trend of Events ONCE more it was the strike which commanded attention. Labor unrest in times of recovery from industrial depression is traditional. Pent-up dissatisfaction with...

Week by Week (March 1937)

Week by Week The Trend of Events VIGOROUS statements for and against the President's desire to harness the Supreme Court to the administration wagon have emphasized anew important considerations...

Week by Week (March 1937)

Week by Week STRAIGHT FORWARDLY asking the public to support his petition to Congress for authority to curb the Supreme Court, Mr. Roosevelt swept onward toward his goal of a The revamped...

Week by Week (February 1937)

Week by Week The Trend of Events WHILE the nation listened to news from areas desolated by floods, all other domes-tic problems seemed relatively insignificant. It was apparent that no previous...

Week by Week (January 1937)

Week by Week The Trend of Events ONCE more a day of inaugural ceremonies has marked a page in American history. It does not open very auspiciously. No definite progress towards a solution of the...

Week by Week (January 1937)

Week by Week The Trend of Events PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT made two im-A portant statements to Congress during the week. He declared that further legislation to effect social progress would follow not...

Week by Week (January 1937)

Week by Week SEEN in retrospect, the year 1936 was characterized in this country by a trend toward stabilization and business recovery. The President's victory fixed the line of The social progress...

Week by Week (January 1937)

Week by Week CHRISTMAS holidays are for persons dedi- cated to a religious faith times of jubilant awareness of the Divine affection for man. Frequently one realizes with acute dis-The gust that...

Week by Week (January 1937)

Week by Week The Trend of Events WILL the trend be toward further liberalization of the American social structure? To date the President has said little to indicate the nature of his plans. It...

Week by Week (December 1936)

Week by Week The Trend of Events PARTLY incidental to Christmas were bonuses and "wage dividends" on a scale reminiscent of boom times. Only a very dour pessimist will deny that there has been a...

Week by Week (December 1936)

Week by Week The Trend of Events WE BELIEVE that Mr. Roosevelt's journey to Latin America is the most significant political event on this continent since the promul-gation of the Monroe Doctrine....

Week by Week (December 1936)

Week by Week The Trend of Events WITH the President off to Buenos Aires, attention was given a number of straws seemingly indicative of the trend. Would there be an attempt to revive the blue...

Week by Week (December 1936)

Week by Week The Trend of Events PUTTING the machinery of social security in motion, the federal government began to gather statistics concerning the nation's industries and workers. The ultimate...

Week by Week (November 1936)

Week by Week DURING the week interest shifted decidedly from politics to social change. Registration under the new Social Security Act, which is to assure old age pensions for work-The ers by...

Week by Week (November 1936)

Week by Week MR. ROOSEVELT'S second administration opened with a proclamation of good feeling so emphatic that one is reminded of the mood which animated the country back The in '33. A sincere...

Week by Week (November 1936)

Week by Week The Nation Speaks GOVERNOR LANDON'S telegram to President Roosevelt on November 3 lucidly (and generously) expressed the energizing central truth of the presidential election: "The...

Book (August 1936)

429 Books The Hidden Logos Religions of Mankind, by Otto Karrer; translated by E. I. Watkin. New York: Sheed and Ward. $3.00. THROUGHOUT the entire body of doctrinal pronouncements there run...

Books (January 1936)

T] e Commonwed January 24, I936 ZZK THE PRESS AND INDUSTRIAL PEACE, by Frank J. Oliver, considers the general impression that "when it comes to labor problems we feel that the average...

Catholics and the Crisis (September 1935)

CATHOLICS AND THE CRISIS By MICHAEL WILLIAMS IN A PREVIOUS article recording some notes of a recent European journey, I said that in all the countries I visited I found that the people I met...

Notes on the Crisis (September 1935)

September 20, 1935 The Commonweal 487 NOTES ON THE CRISIS By MICHAEL WILLIAMS ON MY returning from a journey to several European countries, and trying to reduce a mass of observations...

A Frontier of the Faith (April 1935)

644 The Con ,moJ wea/ , , , , , ~ , , , , , , April 5, I935 I L ~ ~ J , ~ , , , , A FRONTIER OF THE FAITH By MICHAEL WILLIAMS N OT ALL the frontiers of the Faith are in take part in a religious...

A Battlefield of Prayer (March 1935)

586 The Commonwea[ March 22, I935 A BATTLEFIELD OF PRAYER By MICHAEL WILLIAMS T HE OTHER night it was my lot to experience what that vivid writer, F. Scott Fitz.gerald, recently described so...

Books (March 1935)

March 8, I935 T~~ - , , i i i CoBiBlollwr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54~; i l l ! The Catholic Past .4 History of the Catholic Church for the Use of Colleges, Seminaries, and Universities,...

A Champion of Christendom (March 1935)

502 The Commonweal March i, 1935 _ A CHAMPION OF CHRISTENDOM By MICHAEL WILLIAMS W HEN Hilaire Belloc first came to our shores, a long time ago, and when he was a young man, he felt (as he...

Books (February 1935)

February 22, 193 ~ T / ~ - - / Commonweal t' .... ~1..~ . . . . . . . . _ _ ....... , i i l l , i ii i i i l l i l i l 489 American Foundations Our Earliest Colonial Settlements" Their...

Murder Will Shout (February 1935)

446 T/ e Commonweal February 15, x935 MURDER WILL SHOUT By MICHAEL WILLIAMS T HE NEWSPAPERS are busily engaged in preparing the public mind to welcome the advent of some sort of American...

Ten Years of THE COMMONWEAL (November 1934)

November 2, I934 The Commonweal TEN YEARS OF THE COMMONWEAL By MICHAEL WILLIAMS A NYTHING like a full story of how and (especially) why ThE COMMONWEAL was started ten years ago, and of its...

The Mass in Maryland (June 1934)

THE MASS IN MARYLAND By MICHAEL WILLIAMS WHEN the first Mass was said in Maryland, the altar stood in the open air amid primeval forest trees, and around it gathered a little group of English...

Children's Mass: Berlin (June 1933)

June 23, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 207 CHILDREN'S MASS: BERLIN By...

A Vision of Chartres (June 1933)

I52 THE COMMONWEAL June 9, 1933 A VISION OF CHARTRES By...

Hitlerism and Religion (May 1933)

May I9, I933 THE COMMONWEAL 69 HITLERISM AND RELIGION By MICHAEL WILLIAMS T HE ACCESSION to supreme power in Germany of Adolf Hitler has raised issues of the utmost gravity, not only in...

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Message from Rome (April 1933)

April 26, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 707 MESSAGE FROM ROME By MICHAEL WILLIAMS EASTER SUNDAY, with all the bells of St. Peter's booming, chiming and clashing, and with two hundred thousand ...

Books (April 1933)

694 THE COMMONWEAL April 19, 1933 BOOKS Henry's Henchman The Three Pelicans: Archbishop Cranmer and the Tudor Juggernaut, by Arthur Styron. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas....

Epistle for the Times (April 1933)

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Sheed and Ward (April 1933)

April 5, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 627 SHEED AND WARD By MICHAEL WILLIAMS FOUR men who work at cultivating the somewhat stony and stubborn soil of Catholic literature— by writing or publishing...

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March 22, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 567 BABBITTRY INTO VICKERY By MICHAEL WILLIAMS HIS PROUD and happy publishers are advertising lavishly that not only has Sinclair Lewis written a novel that...

Books (January 1933)

358 THE COMMONWEAL January 25, 1933 BOOKS Mexico's Mussolini Porfirio Diaz, Dictator of Mexico, by Carleton Beals. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. $5.00. THIS biography of...

Books (November 1932)

io6 THE COMMONWEAL November 23, 1932 BOOKS The Youngster's Library ONCE a year, in this place, we take a look at the books written for children. This time the supply is a trifle smaller...

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463 A. M. D. G.: II By MICHAEL WILLIAMS AS I SAID in concluding the first part of this r\ article in last week's paper, the central operative fact about the Jesuits is their spirit of...

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Outpost of Empire (January 1932)

347 OUTPOST OF EMPIRE By MICHAEL WILLIAMS WHEN I read that Herbert Eugene Bolton, "Sather Professor of History and director of the Bancroft Library of the University of California," had been...

Reflections on Candle Light (January 1932)

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The Religion of Death (December 1931)

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Books (December 1931)

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Putting Things in Order (December 1931)

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Books (September 1931)

528 THE COMMONWEAL September 30, 1931 BOOKS Quebec in Pastel Shadows on the Rock, by Willa Cather. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.50. T HIS is so rich a book, so full of life, yet so simple,...

Books (June 1931)

162 THE COMMONWEAL June 1o, 1931 MULTIFOLD WAR GUILT Shipley, England. TO the Editor: The article which you publish in your issue of April 29, which has just reached England, pleading for the...

Are All Priests Vatican Citzens? (March 1931)

WE HAVE been reminded by our energetic and persistent contemporary, the Christian Century, in its issue for February 11, that, to use its own words, it "still seeks enlightenment from the...

Books (January 1931)

Ulsterite Individualism Cyrus Hall McCormick: Seed-time, 1809-1836, by W. T. Hutchinson. New York: The Century Company. $5.00. AMONG the Irish Presbyterians who were driven by tithes, increased...

Man Alive (December 1930)

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Books (November 1930)

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Books (October 1930)

BOOKS For the Youngsters WHETHER or not children read much nowadays—a question which, one hopes, may be decided in the affirmative— they do have the real advantage of being able to look at...

Books (August 1930)

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Books (May 1930)

BOOKS Emily Dickinson Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson; edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. Emily Dickinson, by Joseph Pollitt. New York: Harper...

Places and Persons (April 1930)

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Week by Week (April 1930)

WEEK BY WEEK The Educational Future WE HAVE no hesitation in dedicating this issue of The Commonweal to the interests of Catholic higher education in America. Youth has its obvious importance, but...

Week by Week (April 1930)

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Places and Persons (April 1930)

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Week by Week (April 1930)

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Places and Persons (April 1930)

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Week by Week (April 1930)

WEEK BY WEEK OWING to a vast accession of cooperative goodwill, the Seventh Annual Celebration of the Founding of Maryland, as The Calvert Associates chose to call their public meeting in the...

Places and Persons (April 1930)

Places and Persons MR. MENCKEN'S BIBLE FOR BOOBS By MICHAEL WILLIAMS ABOUT two years ago, Mr. H. L. Mencken gave up writing the weekly syndicate letter for a chain of Sunday newspapers which used...

Places and Persons (March 1930)

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A Declaration of Intent (March 1930)

A DECLARATION OF INTENT THE statements addressed by modificationists to the House Judiciary Committee in its hearings on prohibition cannot be dismissed as a recital of grievances. They make up the...

Places and Persons (March 1930)

Places and Persons WASHINGTON CROSSES THE RIO GRANDE By MICHAEL WILLIAMS YEARS and years and years ago (so many that I shall not say how many) I first saw that mystery which is Mexico. It was on...

Week by Week (March 1930)

WEEK BY WEEK Restful London FOR the week past, delegates to the London Con- ference must have found the city quiet and uneventful. Doubtless those who had never seen the Tower listened carefully...

Places and Persons (March 1930)

Places and Persons THE HEALING OF HAITI By MICHAEL WILLIAMS WHAT will come of that one of the many commissions appointed by President Hoover which is to investigate conditions in Haiti cannot, of...

The Attack on the Senate (March 1930)

THE ATTACK ON THE SENATE IN WASHINGTON harsh words are addressed to the Senate. The idea, apparently, is that the misfortunes of the Republican party at this moment can best be attributed to the...

Week by Week (March 1930)

WEEK BY WEEK Public Opinion and Russia EVEN in this age of mass effects, the world-wide protest of Christians and Jews against the religious policy of Moscow is remarkably impressive. One...

Convicts and Ex-Convicts (February 1930)

CONVICTS AND EX-CONVICTS THE day after the last riot at Auburn, every reader of the newspapers knew that the blame was not all on the shoulders of the prisoners; that some of it was on the state,...

Places and Persons (February 1930)

Places and Persons THAT REMINDS ME By MICHAEL WILLIAMS Finding it impossible in his own case to keep a notebook-a practice which he would make compulsory if he were a dictator over all...

Week by Week (February 1930)

WEEK BY WEEK France at the Conference BY issuing their famous Memorandum early in Janu- ary, the French dominated the naval conference at London before it began. Since then the extremely...

Books (January 1930)

BOOKS Knowledge and Faith The New Catholic Dictionary. New York: Universal Knowledge Foundation. Green cloth, $10.00; buckram, $12.50; half-leather, $15.00; cardinal red morocco, $25.00. IT SEEMS...

The Grave at Malden (December 1929)

THE GRAVE AT MALDEN By MICHAEL WILLIAMS TWO strong barriers of wooden rails had been built some ten feet apart on either side of the grave, each fence extending fifteen or twenty feet. Policemen...

Adequate Publicity (December 1929)

ADEQUATE PUBLICITY By MICHAEL WILLIAMS In his previous articles on publicity, Mr. Williams has stressed the legitimacy and importance of the right sort of agency for conveying information to the...

Catholic Publicity (November 1929)

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Aspects of Publicity (November 1929)

ASPECTS OF PUBLICITY By MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE preposterous Shearer case let loose a flood of publicity about publicity. The cutting short of the scandalous investigation of the "big navy drum" so...

Serra of California (September 1929)

494 ?????? ?? ???????????? By MICHAEL WILLIAMS ???????????? ?? ???? act of its legislature, ???? ?????????? ???????? ized Father Junipero Serra, ??? ?? ?????? ?? ??? ?? ????? state's true...

A Pilgrimage to Pittsburgh (August 1929)

35o THE COMMONWEAL August 7, x929 A PILGRIMAGE TO PITTSBURGH By MICHAEL WILLIAMS W HEN I said that I was going to Pittsburgh, some of my New York associates were ribald, and quoted some sort of...

From Tarsus to New York (April 1929)

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Plain Facts for Americans (October 1928)

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For the New York World (October 1928)

6oo 'HE COMMONWEAL October 17, 1928 FOR THE NEW YORK WORLD By MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE NEW YORK WORLD is our favorite daily paper, because its editorial pages are so well written, and...

Columbus Day: 1928 (October 1928)

566 THE COMMONWEAL October 10, 1928 COLUMBUS DAY: 1928 By MICHAEL WILLIAMS A FEW years ago I stood before the tomb which enshrined the bones of Christopher Columbus in the centuries-old...

The Idolatry of the Apple (August 1928)

August i, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 325 THE IDOLATRY OF THE APPLE By MICHAEL WILLIAMS THE thing called the modern mind—a protean, mercurial spirit—is so very active that its manifestations...

Channels of Grace (June 1928)

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Postlude for a Book (June 1928)

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The Ship of Peter (April 1928)

{This is the foreword to a book called Catholicism and the Modern Mind, to be published soon by The Dial Press, New York, N. Y.—The Editors.) I I AM putting a new book together in a cell in...

An Open Letter to Bernard Shaw (March 1928)

DEAR MR. SHAW:—I believe it will interest you to learn what effect the letter about Mexico, which you were good enough to write me last August, produced when it was published. Perhaps you will...

Prayer for a Man Writing a Book (February 1928)

MY DEAR MENCKEN:—Having returned from nine o'clock Mass (I should have gone at eight, but I was lazy) and having plowed through the Sunday papers, the head-lines anyhow, clipping here and there,...

Bernard Shaw, Mexico and the Pope (February 1928)

L AST August, when I was in London, I sent to Mr. George Bernard Shaw the letter which follows: Dear Mr. Shaw:—I am the editor of The Commonweal, a weekly review published in New York....

The Fountain of Bigotry (December 1927)

THIS journal refrained from adding anything to the inconsiderable amount of discussion caused by Mr. John Jay Chapman's recent letter in which he revived the discussion of the right of...

The Ex-Jesuit Enigma (November 1927)

WHEN Eugene Sue's novel, The Wandering Jew, which was incomparably the best seller of its day, was at the top of its wave of popularity, a Paris publisher proposed to a brilliant writer, Paul...

Willa Cather's Masterpiece (September 1927)

WHEN Walt Whitman cried out on some page or other of Leaves of Grass, that who touched that book really touched a man, he said something that was true in its special sense not only of his book...

The Sinclair Lewis Industry (March 1927)

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The Dawn of the Golden Day (March 1927)

512 THE DAWN OF THE GOLDEN DAY By MICHAEL WILLIAMS ALTHOUGH I have read only one book by Mr. Lewis Mumford, I feel no hesitancy in saying that he is one of the few American authors who really...

The Calvert Series (February 1927)

344 THE COMMONWEAL February2, x927 THE CALVERT SERIES By MICHAEL WILLIAMS N THE first number of this journal, the statement was made that there was being promulgated throughout the world a...

Artistocracy and the Church (November 1926)

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October 20, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 577 THIS MAY AMUSE YOU A PREFACE:...

San Francisco (October 1926)

October 13, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 547 SAN FRANCISCO ONE HUNDRED AND...

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234 THE COMMONWEAL July 7, 1926 CHRIST IN...

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Men, the Mob, and Mr. Mencken (March 1926)

488 THE COMMONWEAL March 10, 1926 MEN, THE MOB, AND MR. MENCKEN By MICHAEL WILLIAMS MR. H. L. MENCKEN has been reading a series of articles upon the decay of radicalism published in...

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557 Alsace-Lorraine and, at the same time together with Austria and Russia, returned Poland her freedom. Obviously, the resurrection of Poland even then, even in an atmosphere of perfect peace,...

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The Breaking of the Drought (December 1924)

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The Pearls of La Paz (December 1924)

December to, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL 123 but too evident. in the ramifications of it his...

The False Face (December 1924)

98 THE COMMONWEAL December 3, 1924 the history of mankind. The life and death of St. Cyprian,...