THE WEEK France and the War SYRIA. It is clear enough that the French Army in Syria has not welcomed the invading British, Free French and Indians as liberators. The resistance it is putting up...
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Forum I WAS TEN years old when the first World War started. I remember precious little about that conflict; but I reached intellectual maturity just in time to have a box seat at the dismal postwar...
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Truth in Propaganda Is the propagandist necessary? Can the educator and the propagandist work together? Should the propagandist become a poet? By Liam O'Connor ACCORDING to a recent Gallup poll,...
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What Can Decentralism Do? By LEO R. WARD IT IS sometimes said that the decentralists claim too much. They talk, but they don't produce or do. Then they also have within what we may regard as their...
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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...
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Communications THE NEW FRENCH REGIME (On March 7, 1941, The Commonweal published an article by Professor Louis J. A. Mercier of Harvard University entitled, "The New French Regime." On April 4...
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The Stage & Screen The Plays of the Year THE THEATRICAL season just closed has been far from a banner year, at least as to the new plays produced. Whether it is the war, or just a general drying...
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THE SCREEN Of Mars and the Film DURING THE past year we have seen several cinematic reactions to the present wars and the state of the world. During the next year we are likely to see many more....
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Books of the Week Liturgical Week National Liturgical Week, 1940. Benedictine Liturgical Conference. $1.50. IN "National Liturgical Week, 1940" we have a compilation of the proceedings of the...
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The Inner Forum THE CATHOLIC Summer School at Cliff Haven, near Plattsburg on Lake Champlain, will observe its fiftieth year with a Golden Jubilee program which has been planned for the 1941...
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