The Perfect Handshake
628 THE COMMONWEAL October 23 , I929 the United States, which has fervently underwritten the hope expressed in the Kellogg treaties, will attempt to the best of its ability to avoid any...
...And Mr...
...Meanwhile at least one...
...Hoover summarizes skilfully...
...A British public consciousness willing to maintain naval parity is not bent upon ruling the waves...
...Other issues are involved, of course...
...And therefore we believe it essential to the peace movement that the precise extent of our national naval independence be set forth clearly as soon as possible...
...Approximately one out of fifteen of the present generation of Mexicans has left his homeland for the United States...
...It is a brave man who will venture to predict that the existing coalition of Democrats and disaffected Republicans can maintain the necessary united front...
...that he hires out through an employment agency as a seasonal laborer in some specialized agricultural pursuit, or as a railroad hand...
...that he veers between deplorable living conditions and a startling readiness to avail himself of community help...
...The RevSovietism erend Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., who and the knows the situation well, appears to Holy See have settled the matter by declaring: "It is clear that the attitude of the Holy See toward the present Soviet government has not changed in any respect and cannot be expected to change until the fundamental and inalienable rights of Catholics in Russia are respected by the Soviet Union...
...Ending competitive building is, true enough, one part of the answer...
...It may be Tariff cheerfully admitted that the diverse new rate increases are not of central Doldrums importance at the Capitol, even though they might ultimately become most interesting to consumers...
...But one strong root from which that opinion derives strength is the conviction that "international entanglements" have brought, and may again bring, the country into conflict...
...Of course he says nothing about the vast spiritual problem which the Mexican immigrant situation creates for the Catholic Church, and which has not yet been even adequately estimated...
...More Indians have crossed the southern border in one year than lived in the entire territory of New England at the time of the Plymouth settlement...
...This movement, the greatest Indian migration of all time, will have to be curtailed for the same reasons that dictated the Immigration Act of I924...
...Such happy knowledge is, unfortunately, withheld from France and Italy~ To both these countries aloofness from international entanglements is out of the question...
...that he does stay here and does mingle his blood with that of the dominant racial groups--these are facts, really familiar facts, which Mr...
...Far from showing any tendency to mitigate its persecution of religion, the Moscow government, during the past twelve months, has reasserted its hostile intent by new discriminatory legislation, by enlarging the activities of its anti-religious department, by arbitrary imprisonment of Catholic dignitaries, such as Bishop Sloskan, and by generally renewed assaults on all churches...
...That the peon normally enters the United States illegally and free of charge...
...NEITHER the heats of summer nor the chill winds of debate have availed the Senate anything in so far as the tariff is concerned...
...For both the alignment of military and economic energies on the continent is of sovereign importance~ The obvious inference is that France and Italy need to be viewed not as countries morally inferior to the very noble lands which have recently permitted their governing executives to issue a joint peace statement, but rather as countries beset with political Jproblems not yet solved...
...The issue at stakemthe flexible provision amendment--has afforded a magnificent opportunity to test the President's strength...
...WHILE we do not agree with all the inferences in the article on Mexican immigrants which Mr...
...To date the forces of opposition have triumphed, but...
...It is significant that our author arrives at the following conclusion: "It is impossible to predict what form of restriction will be applied to Mexican immigration, but it seems certain that restriction of some sort must come...
...The United States will attend the coming armament conference fully aware that its peace is not endangered by any immediately conceivable "balance of power...
...WEEK BY WEEK ~ERSISTENT rumors to the effect that a pact is soon to be signed between the Vatican and the Soviet Union have been followed by equally persistent and more official denials...
...If only the world can manage now to be a little more frank, a little more courageous, in bringing hidden issues into the open l The Kellogg treaties banning war mean nothing unless the causes of war are sincerely borne in mind...
...America looks confidently to its representatives, sure that they will possess tact as well as good intentions...
...628 THE COMMONWEAL October 23 , I929 the United States, which has fervently underwritten the hope expressed in the Kellogg treaties, will attempt to the best of its ability to avoid any situation leading to war...
...Glenn E. Hoover contributes to the current Mexican number of Foreign Affairs, we are quite Immigrant ready to assert that the paper merits Workers careful reading as the most effective treatment of an important subject we have seen...
...The Catholic Church seeks neither privilege nor preferred status in Russia but only common justice and the freedom now recognized and accorded her by all other civilized nations as indispensable for her spiritual mission...
...To aid in finding that solution is both an opportunity and an obligation...
...MacDonald, influenced by sentiment upon which he must rely for the continuance of his party in power, is clearly the advocate of "freedom of the seas" in every practical form...
...This statement is in perfect accord with repeated declarations emanating, at least semi-officially, from the Vatican itself...
...not without uneasiness of heart...
Vol. 10 • October 1929 • No. 25
