The Temper of Congress THE SWEEPING victory in the Senate of the expanded and amended "states rights" reconversion bill of Senator Geofge over the more ambitious Murray-Kilgore measure is...
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Our Post-War Armed Forces How shall we organize our national defenses? Harry Lorin Binsse AFTER THIS WAR is over and some sort of peace has been hammered out on the anvil of various national...
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Waking the Dead JILL O'NAN I CAN no more remember my first wake than I can recall my first steps. The dead were never more strange to me than the living, and from my earliest recollections I...
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Is This Our Line? EDWARD SKILLIN, JR. IT IS NOT often that an observer of American Catholic magazines is able to detect any concentration of direction in the articles which they feature. In...
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Communications BOMBING Middletown, Conn. TO the Editors: In your issue of August nth you printed a letter with the caption "Bombing." Since the Commonweal cannot, of course, print...
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The Stage & Screen Good Morning Corporal DEAR KAPPO: Being on vacation has spared you a harrowing experience—the experience of seeing a round dozen human beings drain the cup of bad theater to...
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Hail the Conquering Sturges THE simultaneous release of two Preston Sturges films provides an interesting contrast in the work of this director. The comparison however isn't quite fair—for...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins JOHN PICK 'T^HIS YEAR is the centenary of the birth of Gerard JL Manley Hopkins, and it is fitting that his life and work should be celebrated by the publication of a...
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Editors' Choice Time Must Have a Stop. Aldous Huxley. Harper. $2.75. State of the Nation. John Dos Passos. Houghton. $3.00. Fourscore Years. G. G. Coulton. Canibridge-Macmillan....
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More Books of the Week People, Church, and State in Modern Russia. Paul Anderson. Macmillan. $2.50. THE student of Russian religious life and Russian religious trends has...
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The Inner Forum Sidewalk Apostles WHEN THE Catholic laymen who explain the misunderstood truths of their Faith on streetcorners meet for their annual conference in Chicago, September 12th to...
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