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		The Commonweal week by week BILLIONS ABROAD T HE scope of the manifold tasks involved in conducting the cold war against the insatiable Communist axis is a staggering one. There is the...
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		CHINA AND INDIA The Narrowing Gap WHICHEVER SYSTEM DEMONSTRATES ITS SUPERIORITY IN SOLVING KEY PROBLEMS MAY WELL WIN THE ALLEGIANC'E OF MILLIONS OF ASIANS HAROLD C. HINTON I NDIA and China are...
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		FROM FRANCE Mend s-France vs. The Alcohol Lobby Pads T HE Mend~s-France cabinet has fallen on the issue of reform in France's North African Colonies. An underlying factor in its downfall...
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		THE STAGE THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA NOT among the best plays," was Sir Desmond IN MacCarthy's verdict on the initial production; "a somewhat complicated story, which is made the vehicle of a great...
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		THE SCREEN CHIPS OF THE AULD SOD J OHN Ford has a field day in "The Long Gray Line" telling the story of Marty Maher who was an athletic instructor at West Point for fifty years. Edward Hope's...
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		COMMUNICATIONS "OBITUARY FOR DISTRIBUTISM" New York, N. Y. T O the Editors: In answer to John Stanley's article saying that Distribufism is irrelevant [Jan. 14] I would say that it takes...
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		HERE AND THERE Varieties of Americanism L AST month Robert M. Hutchins spoke before the National Press Club in Washington. Americans, he said, are growing more and more like the man...
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		BOOKS The Fate of Oscar Wilde VIVIAN MERCIER T HE centenary year of the birth of Oscar Wilde has come and gone without offering us a definitive biography of this playboy of the western world....
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		One Man's Journey Towards Universality and  Truth THE GOLDEN STRING. By Bede Grifflths, O.S.B. Kenedy. $3.50. By ANNE FREMANTLE G REAT autobiographies are among the rarest, as they are among...
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