WEEK BY WEEK
Act of Faith
THE distant island of Formosa, where the United States fleet is presumably still on guard, continues to present a puzzle for us. There is much to commend letting well...
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Force
POWER corrupts what? For one thing, it corrupts intellects, because force offers a simple (costly, yes, but simple) method of action in situations where intellectual and social action would be...
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The Labor Party's Colonial Record
Britain's Government fears that whatever it does in the colonies "makes no emotional impact."
By MICHAEL P. FOGARTY
ON THE face of it, Labor's colonial record these...
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FROM GERMANY
No More Uniforms?
GERMAN rearmament is, at the moment, the favorite subject of speculation in this country. German journalists discreetly started the discussion a year and a half ago....
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Communications
No More Crusades
Paterson, N. J.
TO THE Editors: Reader Hendricks [Sept. 29] appears to have written off the people of Britain as a pretty bad lot. But I venture to suggest that they...
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Incident in Korea
By JEROME SMILEY
IN NOVEMBER 1946 I was sent to Korea with other army occupation troops and was stationed with the 7th Medical Battalion in the outskirts of Seoul. Eagerly I looked...
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The Screen
PASSING THE BUCK
"COUNTERFEITING started right after the first use of money," we are informed during the documentary-like introduction to a delightful new film called "Mister 880."...
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The Stage
Season in the Sun
WOLCOTT GIBBS, drama critic of The New Yorker, has just written his first play, and a little note in the trade magazine Variety has it that a good many Broadway...
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Of Note
Attack from the Left
TO MARK the 100th anniversary of the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England, The Tablet (128 Sloane Street, S.W.I, London) published a special commemorative...
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Books
Why War Came in Korea. Robert T. Oliver. Fordham University Press. $2.95.
THE author of this latest contribution to the abundant polemical literature on Korea obviously considers himself a...
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