Japan and the Far East WE NEVER liked the term unconditional surrender as applied to Germany. Yet Germany was a special case and it is true that the words meant no more at first—when the future was...
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The Soviet Union Apocalyptic nightmare or political reality Waldemar Gurian THE Soviet Union has become for many the incarnation of all evil forces; we may even say the incarnation of the...
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June 29, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 257 Russian policy shows that not all its factors are working toward world domination by the Soviets, as many believe. The Soviet leaders realize that their position is...
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258 THE COMMONWEAL June 29, 1945 Troopship AN AMERICAN SOLDIER O NE COULD write many things colorful and romantic of life aboard a troopship. Censorship, however, forbids the mention of...
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June 29, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 259 any other unfashionable quality, incongruous in a group of typical and healthy American boys and young men. Lots of Americans back home would be pleased with the...
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June 29, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 261 lines can be "at war" one day, "at peace" the next. When one is in the center of "victory," there is too much that is inconclusive. The country looks too beautiful...
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262 THE COMMONWEAL June 29, 1945 are the only healthy people we have seen in Europe. But we have seen released prisoners rush for our garbage pails for food. We have seen their terribly starved...
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June 29, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 263 a chronicle not devised for the stage. But this production presented only nine scenes, the most startling of which—the Two Bakers—was ignored; and another—The...
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264 THE COMMONWEAL June 29, 1945 "Lassie Come Home." The new story and screenplay are by Jeanne Bartlett who writes along typical Hollywood lines rather than in the style of Eric Knight. The story,...
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266 THE COMMONWEAL June 29, 1945 skinned subject races (including the Chinese) against all white-skinned master races (including ourselves). As far as we are cencerned, this rebellion manifests...
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