The Commonweal week by week THE DEMOCRATIC RACE WE DOUBT that Harry Truman is toying with the idea of running for the Presidency, as some have suggested, but it is probably a tribute to Mr....
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The Facts of Foreign Aid "ON THE QUESTION OF FOREIGN AID, THERE APPEARS TO BE A HAPPY CONCURRENCE BETWEEN NATIONAL INTEREST AND LARGER HUMAN VALUES" ROBERT C. GOOD SINCE the end of World War II,...
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POLITICS AND PREJUDICE A Catholic President? JOHN J. KANE COULD a Catholic be eleoted President of the United States in 1956? Regardless of the party nominating him, how would contemporary...
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COMPULSORY IRISH The Uses of Gaelic DAVID H. GREENE THE TOURISTS had all departed, there was a touch of Irish winter in the air, and the only Americans I saw in Dublin---outside of the embassy...
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THE SCREEN WINNER TAKE ALL I WISH that scriptwriters Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum, who expanded their excellent hourlong TV play, "Fearful Decision," into a fulllength movie, had not made...
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OF NOTE FREEDOM VERSUS AUTHORITY IN THE DECIJMBER issue of the Notre Dame Lawyer (Notre Dame, Indiana) the dean of the Law School, Dr. Joseph O'Meara, discusses freedom of speech. Excerpts from...
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COMMUNICATIONS "COMMUNISTS IN UNIONS" Washington, D. C. TO the Editors: I read, and then reread several times, Paul Jacobs' article on "Communists in Unions" [Jan. 20]. Several readings did not...
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BOOKS The Princess' Fate Was Wiser Than She Liked to Think THE GRAND MADEMOISELLE. By Francis Steegmuller. Farrar, Straus. $3.75. By GERALD WEALES FRANCIS Steegmuller, whose books on Flaubert...
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