Yalta THE BIG NEWS this week, of course, is the announcement of the agreement reached by Messrs. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin at Yalta, where the Czars built themselves a resort-palace, and...
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Peacetime Military Training An army private asks some questions WE are told that peacetime compulsory military training will (i) strengthen the defenses of the United States, (2) ...
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A civilian's views on the subject J. M. O'Neill THERE seems to be real danger that we are going to drift—just drift—into the tragic blunder of adopting peacetime compulsory military...
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Dumbarton Oaks What it is and what it should be Luigi Sturzo PUBLIC discussion, in England and in the United States, on the respective international policies of these countries and...
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Communications CORRECTION Washington, D. C. TO the Editors: May I make a rectification of something I have just discovered in a review of mine published in The Commonweal? I referred to...
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The Stage & Screen Hope For The Best WILLIAM McCLEERY'S play goes something like this: a Connecticut columnist who has amassed eleven million readers by writing of the joys of life in Indiana...
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Further Studies in Grue HOLLYWOOD'S current cycle of murder films and mysteries is reaching its zenith. This type of cinema has always been popular with movie makers, but never before have...
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Books of the Week A Preface to Newman's Theology. Edmond Darvil Benard. Herder. $2.25. OPINIONS about Cardinal Newman varied strikingly during his lifetime, and have varied since. If I...
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