THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week AFTER THE ELECTION w ITH AMERICANS across the country we salute John...
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The Loyal Opposition Its duty is to criticize, and no plea of state interest can relieve it of its first obligation by STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD IN DECEMBER 1945 Winston Churchill rose in the House of...
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A PROTESTANT VIEW Postscript for Catholics by ROMAINE L. GARDNER "Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare. "Exactly so," said Alice. "Then you should...
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TWO POEMS by Pierre Henri Delattre AWAKENING Soldiers heaped across the world Sleep like a snow tonight upon The first bright grass: The warm weather of peace Waits to surprise them. In...
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NORTH AND SOUTH The Two holies by JOHN J. NAVONE T HE DRUMBEAT of history for Italy's North has usually been steady and measured, far from its erratic and spasmodic tattoo in the South. And...
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COMPLINE: TRAPPIST ABBEY OF NEW MELLERAY This morning outside the chapel doors in the hollow square formed by poplars beneath a cross of black iron they buried with the others the fourth...
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JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY A Spoiled Poet by HORACE GREGORY W HAT IS wrong in the life and writings of John Middleton Murry ( 1889-1957 ) ? This may seem an ungenerous, even impertinent question to...
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"Protestants in Latin America" San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic. T O THE EDITORS: The September 9th issue of The Commonweal with the article "Protestants in Latin America" came tardily...
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THE SCREEN BREATHES THERE THE MAN IT IS a pleasure to report that the latest of the Rossellini films to be shown in this country is in a class with his famous war movies, "Open City" and "Paisan."...
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS Brickbats and Bouquets by CLAIRE HUCHET BISHOP 4‘O PRAISE can flatter, unless it comes from someone who is also free to blame," said Beaumarchais, and this holds true for...
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