NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS The Rain King By far the most successful minister in the current British government, says Guardian commentator Peter Jenkins, is Mr. Denis Howell, the emergency Minister of Drought....
...According to Shen-ker, his interest in the case was born of this apparent phenomenon...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...for the Marxist Allende government...
...It is people like Wittenberg who keep your faith in society shored up...
...21, killing Orlando Letelier, former Chilean Ambassador to the U.S...
...Informations Catholiques Internationales, noting the death, cited Barrat as "a convinced Christian who did not hesitate to take the most dangerous personal risks in carrying out the commitments which he believed the faith demanded of him...
...His father, an editor of Commonweal from 1949-1955 and a columnist in these pages until 1964, died last March 28...
...Incidentally, Lewisohn, son of the late Ludwig Lewisohn, translator and novelist, has become a Catholic since going to jail...
...Our sympathies are Michael Moffitt's, as well as our prayers for a speedy recovery from his own injuries...
...Cogley, in his early 30s, leaves a wife and two children, and to them and his mother we extend our sympathies...
...Moffitt was an occupant in the car that blew up in Washington on Sept...
...Most recently he headed for Yorkshire, and in anticipation of his arrival, six inches of rain fell on Leeds in three days...
...Wherever he goes, it never rains but it pours...
...It was then that Mauriac wrote of him: "I remain persuaded that the love of Christ inspires whatever he has done...
...Or was he of Massachusetts, since at the time of his birth in Portland in 1807, Maine was still a part of the state of Massachusetts...
...It was a compassionate article, and one read it with gratitude for people like Dr...
...Released after many petitions, he was again arrested in 1960 as one of the organizers of the "Declaration of 121" on the right to resist the Algerian war...
...They were all of Maine, and among the three were five Pulitzer Prizes...
...I converted," he told Shenker, "because of the cross and suffering...
...By way of small quibble, however, why should Wittenberg have "thought it strange to find a good poet in Maine...
...One of his first official outings in drought-ridden Britain was Cardiff...
...In 1952, Barrat recruited Francois Mauriac's commitment on the Moroccan affair, and during the Algerian war Bar-rat's home served as a rallying point for Catholics of the Left who were militants on the issue of independence for Algeria...
...Since then, commented Jenkins, Howell's umbrella has scarcely furled...
...Long-time readers of Commonweal will be saddened to learn of the death this past summer (Aug...
...Wittenberg will excuse its being brought up in the course of praising him for his humanitarian commitments, which we intend to be our central point...
...Barrat was an editor of Temoignage Chretien, and in 1947 organized the Catholic Center of French Intellectuals, of which he was to be secretary-general and for which he would build up a large membership...
...Similar sad news involves Michael Moffitt, research associate of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, whose article on the problems of world poverty appeared in these pages July 30...
...Following a report of his on the Algerian Liberation Movement, Barrat was arrested, found guilty of failing to denounce a crime, and imprisoned...
...Once Britain's cups brim-meth over, Jenkins suggests Howell be made Minister of Unemployment, then Minister of Industrial Decline, and, if all else fails, Minister of Economic Collapse...
...Hayakawa, Republican senatorial candidate in California, on Japan's McDonald hamburger-stand invasion: "What a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor...
...This is all very minor, to be sure, and we trust Dr...
...Columnist John Roche on President Ford: "When it comes to flip-flopping [he] makes a porpoise look arthritic...
...But it was especially for the decolonization of Africa that he was to expend the bulk of his energies...
...Marshall McLuhan, media guru, on waist-high lecterns and presidential debate #1: The principals looked like men waiting for their trousers to be pressed...
...Rudolph Wittenberg, the New York psychoanalyst who has taken an interest in Lewisohn since reading a poem of his years ago...
...Also dying last month was Terence Cogley, oldest son of the late John Cogley...
...Vincent Millay, Robert P. Tristam Coffin...
...And, of course, Longfellow...
...Down it came...
...Helping the PHsaner Then, too, last month- we're in a somewhat different context now-there was Israel Shenker's moving piece in the New York Times about James E. Lewisohn, the poet and professor, who is serving a life term for murder in a Thomaston, Maine, jail...
...Ironically, Moffitt's article in the July 30 Commonweal was titled, "Nightmare without End...
...Terry Cogley served with the Peace Corps in India, and worked for the government...
...Moffitt survived the blast, thought by some to have been perpetrated by a Chilean "death squad" out to get Letelier, but his wife Ronni, the third of the three passengers in the car, died...
...Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edna St...
...16) of Robert Barrat, 57, Common-monweal's French correspondent from 1950 to 1965...
...I had to share it, to find a little grace, a place to breathe...
...Odd mnd Ends - S.I...
...His articles brought him into numerous confrontations with French military justice...
...In later years, Barrat served on the editorial staff of Paris-Match...
...He died at his home in the Washington area after a lengthy illness...
Vol. 103 • October 1976 • No. 22
