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		The Commonweal week by week THE CONTINUING CRISIS W HAT Sir Winston Churchill has described as "a mystery wrapped' in an enigma" continues to baffle the best intelligence in the West. The...
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		Vision in the Novels "THE FUTURE HAS NEVER, SINCE MAN COULD READ AND WRITE, BEEN LESS VALID AS AN INCENTIVE TO ACTION THAN THE PAST" ANNE FREMANTLE S CRIPTURE warns us that "without vision,...
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		FROM ITALY The Bourgeois Communists Rom8 N " OT since the fall of Fascism has Italy been afflicted with more scandals and counterscandals than during the past year. Respectable...
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		HERE AND THERE The MacArthur Speech I N his San Francisco speech General MacArthur said it, and I don't suppose that any sane man could deny that what he said was true. General MacArthur...
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		THE SCREEN FUN-LOVING MARINES AND MEDICS T HERE are enough plots in "Battle Cry" to take care of several movies, but Leon M. Uris, who wrote the script from his own novel, chose to wrap them...
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		THE STAGE VARIETY PLAIN and Fancy" (at the Mark Hellinger), V a musical portrait of the Amish, begins the week's various critical smorgasbord: a surprise, I note with some pleasure, for the...
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		COMMUNICATIONS "FATHER GILLIS RETIRES" New York, N. Y. T O the Editor: Amongst the various friendly editorial comment upon my "Sursum Corda" column I was particularly happy to find yours...
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		Critics' Choice of Catholic Books GEORGE G. HIGGINS T HE Moral Foundation o/ Democracy. By John H. Hallowell. University o] Chicago. $3.50. Professor Hallowell of Duke University, meeting...
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		Higgins, Monsignor George G.; Simons, Father John W.; Bartelme, Elizabeth; Moody, Father J. N.; Clancy, William P.; Reinhold, Father H. A.; Bradley, Sister Ritamary; Skillin, Edward S.; Fitzpatrick, Father Joseph P.; Getlein, Frank
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		BOOKS The Church's Human Element THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. By Paul Simon. Newman. $2.75. By H. A. REINHOLD p AUL Simon, who died as the Provost of the Metropolitan Chapter...
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