Feeding the Conquered Peoples WE HAVE stated that, as regards the European situation, we are neither for conciliation and compromise with the dictators, nor for war; and that we would make it our...
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Can We Justify Neutrality? A plea for America's open participation in the war. By William M. Agar T HIS IS a serious time for America. We are rearming as rapidly as our late start allows. We have...
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Childress' Books, 1940 T MAY be that this year I have been less conscientious, 1 or else that I am growing more used the delights to of juvenile literature, and hence have no longer any fine...
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November 22, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 125 The Jugular Vein of the British Empire By ARTHUR SETTEL O N A HOT afternoon in January, 1935, a short man with iron-grey hair and a sunburned face threw the...
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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...
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November 22, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 127 The Stage El Screen Hollywood on Broadway THE REAL Hollywood is a state of mind rather than a place. As a state of mind it is material for art, but it should...
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128 THE COMMONWEAL November 22, 1940 Getting Their Men-4nd Women WITH A GORGEOUS splash of color, Cecil B. DeMille brings us his "Northwest Mounted Police," a pageant in which the Mounties' vivid...
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128 THE COMMONWEAL November 22, 1940 Books of the Week Not by a Novelist Who Walk zilone. Perry Burgess. Holt. $2.75. WHEN asked to review a book by Perry Burgess, the writer—who occasionally...
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In The Groove VICTOR'S series of repressings under black labels, begun before the major companies cut prices, has held up very well, and attains a respectable eminence in its latest album, the...
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134 THE COMMONWEAL Christmas Cards Go into Second Printing November 22, 1940 The Inner Forum Orders for sample sets and favorite cards bearing Commonweal Christmas greetings have been so heavy...
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