THE WEEK The Army and the Nation IT IS SAID by many people these days and rather ineffectively denied by others that the morale of our soldiers is distressingly poor. The men complain that they...
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The Death of a Frenchman A Socialist politician who died a hero. By Jean Weiller In France's general catastrophe more than a year ago it was natural that the heroism of individuals should have...
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Byron and the Monks Armenian was one of the poet's little-known avocations. By Donald Attwater REVIEWING recently the "Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature," Harry Binsse commented on the...
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Summer School of the Liturgy By DANIEL M. CANTWELL ARCHBISHOP STRITCH is responsible, the A second time within a year, for a forward thrust in the liturgical movement. Last fall, it was the...
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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...
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Communications BERGSON Easthampton, N. Y. TO the Editors: Here is some additional information to join with that already published in The Commonweal (January 17 and March 7) on the subject of...
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The Screen Death Takes a Holiday on Borrowed Time WAR TIME seems to call for fantasy in entertainment because fantasy is the farthest escape from troublous reality. On its toes to sense audience...
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Summer's Reading ACCORDING to the latest reports, cited in the cur-rent issue of the Publishers' Weekly and based on returns from a hundred book sellers, the American people drew farther and...
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More Books of the Week Two Autobiographies Father of the Blues. An Autobiography by W. C. Handy. Edited by Arna Bontemps. Macmillan. $3.00. WC. HANDY is justly called the "father of the blues"...
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The Inner Forum DOCUMENTS of Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Poland, recently handed to Pope Pius XII, bring the story of nazi persecution of the Church in Poland up to January, 1941. The statistics...
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