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		The Commonweal week by week The Shadow of War T HE crisis in the Formosa Straits is merely a trumpet solo in the cold war. What underlies that crisis is the fact that the first movement...
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		THE CHINA CRISIS A Letter to Americans "IN MATTERS OF WAR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TODAY LEAN BACKWARDS SO FAR THAT THEY RISK BECOMING APPEASERS" SAL TAS N 'OTHING is more mistaken than the...
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		THREAT TO THE MACHINE Political Battle in Chicago JAMES V. CUNNINCHAM C ITIZENS of the nation's second city, gourmets of the rough and tumble, are licking their chops over the prospect of the...
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		FROM BRITAIN Agnosticism On the BBC M RS. Margaret Knight, lecturer in psychology at Aberdeen University, has given three talks on the BBC to parents on what she, as an agnostic, thinks...
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		THE STAGE THE FLOWERING PEACH M R. Clifford Odets' new play is a work of secular piety, imperfect and somewhat arid, but nonetheless, luminously touched with the imagination of reverence....
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		THE SCREEN LAW AND ORDER B ECAUSE of its subject matter, life at the California Institute for Men at Chino, "Unchained" is no ordinary, clich6-ridden prison movie. The very fact that it was...
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		COMMUNICATIONS "OBITUARY FOR DISTRIBUTI$M" Notre Dame, Ind. T O the Editors: It appears, in light of his recent article in The Commonweal [Jan. 14], that John Stanley believes us to be at last...
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		BOOKS The Defense of a Basic American Tradition THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TODAY. Mr. Griswold accurately sum- ample, the case of the man who By Erwin N. Griswold. Harvard. Cloth marizes an attitude...
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