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 Vol. 031 Issue 015 (February 2 1940)
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Vol. 031 Issue 016 (February 9 1940)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 THE WEEK
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The Polish Vatican Report THERE WAS no hate at the beginning of the war but rather a general hope that this war would be fought cleanly until air bombing made cruelty automatic. Hitler was...
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FEDERATION OR ELSE (An Editorial)
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THE MEN on both sides wish to win the war in order to save something or create something. Their problem is to secure against an exterior menace the liberty needed for the conservation or...
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PEACE AND THE ROMAN MISSAL
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B., W. Michael Ducey, O.S.
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THE CATHOLIC MASS is essentially a religious sacrifice offered in the cause of peace. Since its institution by Our Lord two thousand years ago, it has been celebrated by the Church as her...
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AN EVENING AT VOLLARD'S
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Truelle, Jacques
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ALTHOUGH THE Square Ste. Clotilde is close by the Boulevard St. Germain and the Ministry of War, it is sheltered by its age from the noises of the boisterous world. Ensconced within the city,...
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THE SPOON (Verse)
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Coffin, Robert P. Tristram
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Digging his cellar, they found a spoon A hundred years old. The same old tune Sung there once would be sung once more. Who was he to think a door Could shut him off from the old...
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POOR LITTLE RICH STATE
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Hall, F. E.
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. . . as for the earth, out of it cometh bread and under it is turned up as it were by fire. The stones of it are the place of sapphire, and it hath dust of gold.—Book of Job. ^ ^ f T ^ H I S is...
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VIEWS AND REVIEWS
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Williams, Michael
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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...
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COMMUNICATIONS
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SOS FROM T H E DROUGHT AREA Boston, Mass. TO the Editors: James A. Fitzgerald writes in a letter to T H E COMMONWEAL, January 26, that land in the South Dakotas cannot be bought at $70 acre and...
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THE STAGE
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Vernon, Grenville
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Two on an Island THERE IS much that is engaging in Elmer Rice's panoramic play of life on Manhattan Island. Mr. Rice has a sympathy and an understanding of the lower and middle ordei^ of...
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THE SCREEN
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Hartung, Philip T.
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Trampling Out the Vintage " l \ / f ^ DIRT, it ain't no good, but it's mine," says I T A Grampa in the Dust Bowl as the Joads start out on their pitiful journey on Highway 66. With high hopes,...
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK
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A Welsh Valley How Green Was My Valley. Richard Llewellyn. Macmillan. $2.73. THIS IS the story of life in a Welsh mining community before Wales had become a "depressed area." With it Wales...
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THE INNER FORUM
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FOR SEVERAL YEARS the Franciscan Fathers of the Atonement at Graymoor, New York, have had considerable success in presenting a series of dramatic sketches based on the lives of the Saints on the...
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Vol. 031 Issue 017 (February 16 1940)
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Vol. 031 Issue 018 (February 23 1940)
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