WEEK BY WEEK
The Forty-Three Billions
SENATOR Harry F. Byrd and his House-Senate Committee on federal expenditures have come up with a total for this country's foreign aid between VJ day and June...
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Bianchi, Count and Comrade
"Up in a villa-down in the city" with an aristocratic Communist
By GUNNAR D. KUMLIEN
COUNT Ranuccio Bianchi-Bandinelli is one of the most widely known landowners in...
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McCarrans Blunderbuss
A realistic look at the Anti-Subversive law-and what can be done about it.
By CHRISTOPHER EMMET
THE McCarran Anti - Subversive bill is a classic example of the defects of hasty...
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THE LABOR MOVEMENT
Tommy Lewis of the Bronx
A FEW months ago Francis Downing wrote a fine piece in this column on the subject of "Dictatorship and John L. Lewis." It seems that a miner named Dickmon...
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Communications
Atomic War
Chicago, Ill.
TO the Editors: Thanks to Commonweal for publishing Fr. Connell's and Gordon Zahn's articles
on bombing [Sept. 29]. From the give and take of thought on this...
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The Stage
CALL ME MADAM
THERE are two ways to write a musical comedy. One is to get an idea, the other is to get people. Rodgers and Hammerstein have been making history with the idea method, and...
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The Screen
Three to Get Ready
ARDENT admirers of W. Somerset Maugham will brook no adverse criticism of this estimable writer; so there is not much point, for the purposes of a review of a new film...
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The Case of Mr. Hemingway
By EVELYN WAUGH
MR. ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S long-expected novel has been out for some weeks, and has already been conspicuously reviewed by all the leading critics. It is now...
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Fischer, Max; MILES, GEORGE; Rorty, James; Skillin, Edward S.; Hughes, Serge; TIMASHEFF, N. S.; HUGHES, RILEY; Standen, Anthony
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Books
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. Louis Fischer. Harper. $5.
MAHATMA GANDHI was one of the paramount figures of our time, both as a religious man and as the political leader of his nation. How these...
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