TuE Commonweal week by week ADLAI STEVENSON AND ALGER HISS F A VEN from his prison cell, Alger Hiss casts a long shadow. When he was thought to be a faithful public servant, it is doubtful...
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Two Parliaments in Action THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND A SMALL AUSTRIAN LANDTAG HIGHLIGHTS A POLITICAL PROBLEM ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN ONLY recently did I have the opportunity...
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the British Parliament start to get a democratic composition. (General male equal franchise was introduced in Great Britain in 1918, in the Austrian monarchy in 1907.) A poll-tax or other...
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Old Slogans Fade Away SO THEY TELL ME hypocrisy, the historical vulgarity of much of the attack on the conduct of the President in Korea was revealed with stark obedience to the facts by Senator...
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vealed this to so many people that the Ohio Senator was defeated. The meaning of the Dewey-Eisenhower attack was that they were unwilling to play an old game. And it is likely that one of the...
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Perhaps the depth of characterization isn't as great as in Scott's original, but the people do have a reality unusual for an epic of this kind. Robert Taylor as the Saxon Knight, Wilfred of Ivanhoe,...
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THE LITERARY LIFE Two Writers One from Tel Aviv JOE DEVER HARRY RALBY came to see me 1-1- tonight. That is to say, one unknown writer called on another. It really can't be much different when...
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BOOKS The Compassion of a Christian Artist MISERERE. By Georges Rouault. Preface by the artist. Introduction by Monroe Wheeler. 62 plates. Museum of Modern Art, New York. $3.76. By FRANK...
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