Of Vacua OF COURSE history is not geography, and hence it is grossly misleading to label such an event as President Truman's recent address to Congress with regard to Greece and Turkey a "turning...
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Twelve Million Homes The Taft-Ellender-Wagner Bill; why it is urgent, who blocks it G. H. Robinson OUT IN CHICAGO a few weeks ago the Housing Expediter, Frank R. Creedon, told the annual...
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Publishing in England J. L. BENVENISTI THE MOST serious thing that has happened in Britain during the recent nationwide electricity shutdown has been the suppression of The Economist. Not that...
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Agricultural Alaska WALTER J. MARX IN MY LAST article I tried to describe something of the life and economy of northern Alaska. I trust that I did not exaggerate the extent of the "modern...
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Communications THE CASE FOR VIET NAM Washington, D. C. TO the Editors: The investigation of the Indo-Chinese situation made on the spot by M. Marius Moutet, Minister for France Overseas, has...
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The Stage & Screen The Chocolate Soldier I WILL say at once that this Del Bondio-Bartsch production of the Strauss operetta (originally drawn, of course, from Shaw's "Arms And The Man") is fresh,...
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The Stage & Screen Days of Our Youth OH, YOUTH, YOUTH!—and the way movie* usually portray it! But every now and then a film does catch the joy and enthusiasm of youth. "The Red House,"...
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The Noble View HENRY RAGO IT IS NOT pleasant having to deal violently with so ardent and so decent-minded a book* as this, Mr. Watts's evangel to the Gentiles on the subject of poetry; and I am...
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More Books of the Week The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. By H. and H. A. Frankfort, John A. Wilson, Thorkild Jacobsen, and William A. Irwin. The University of Chicago Press. $4.00. HOW...
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