The Pope's Neutrality LAST WEEK in these columns we called attention to the many signs that Pius XII feels far less constraint—if any constraint at all—under the Allied occupation of Rome. We...
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What Not to Do with Spain Why monarchy is no solution Alfredo Mendizabal TOO MANY people today put their faith in the miraculous efficacy of panaceas and of schemes to resolve from afar...
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The Amen Child The Amen child along the cold, As the bird hurleth up the dawn, Hurries the hills. The cold the cold Burns them, the stones he enters on (Now bow) to stand then kneel then...
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Eyeless in Lhasa The "scientific" approach to prayer A. F. MR. GERALD HEARD, who has been living for some years in California, gives us, in his "A Preface to Prayer" (Harper, $2.00),...
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The Unscored Symphony LOUIS F. DOYLE THE MORE widely one ranges through the God's plenty of classic English prose, the more surely he returns like a homing pigeon to that one unmatched (and...
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Communications LONDON COMMENTARY Wahpeton, N. D. TO the Editors: Having just read in The Commonweal for June 16 the article on India by J. L. Benvenisti, I am taking, for a bit of comment,...
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Hats Off To Ice IT IS obvious that the new Ice Revue at the attractive Center Theater is new: costumes and mise en scene look fresh and crisp, and the performers look interested. As this is...
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W. Somerset Maugham W SOMERSET MAUGHAM has turned up in • literature, theater and cinema this year without increasing his stature in any of these arts. In spite of the critics who...
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Editors' Choice The Dutch Drawings at Windsor Castle. Leo Van Puyvelde. Phaidon. Oxford. $5.50. Three Wars with Germany. Reginald Hall and Amos J. Peaslee. Putnam. $3.00. The...
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More Books of the Week The Arab Heritage. Edited by Nabih Amin Faris. Princeton. $3.00. WHEN KIPLING wrote, more than a generation ago, Oh, the East is East, and the West is...
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For Cultural Inter-Americanism THE UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT reports that Social Action, a Jesuit organization in Brazil, is planning next spring to open in Sao Paulo a college of chemical...
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