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		The Commonweal week by week THE MENDES-FRANCE PERFORMANCE MONTHS ago, when EDC was laid out on the block for execution, its advocates insisted that it still could have been put through the...
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		The Burden of Arms "WE IN EUROPE ARE SUBJECT TO MATERIAL LIMITATIONS WHICH ARE INCONCEIVABLE TO MOST AMERICANS" ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN I N order to arrive at a full realization of the...
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		EXODUS IN INDOCHINA Slow Boat to Freedom HOWARD R. SIMPSON DIEN Bien Phu seemed a long time ago. The battle for Indochina was finished----or at least one stage of it. Soon all of North Viet...
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		THE STAGE PORTRAIT OF A LADY IT would be idle to abuse William Archibald's dramatization of the Henry James novel; the play sustained an uncommonly poor press--there was, as an example, the...
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		OF NOTE THE CHRISTIAN AND THE STATE I N the Winter Cross Currents (3111 Broadway, New York 27, N. Y.), Father Augustin Lfonard, O.P., who teaches at the Belgian college at La Harte du Puy,...
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		BOOKS The Survivor's Debt WILLIAM PFAFF F ROM lhe beginning to the end of Arthur Koestler's autobiography, as regular as the chapter headings, like a rhythm, or, as he says himself, like a...
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		The Inside Picture of Stendhal's Formative Years THE PRIVATE DIARIES OF STENDHAL. Edited and Translated by Robert Sage. Doubleday. $7.50 By MARTIN TURNELL I N 1799, when he was sixteen years...
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