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"To Secure These Rights" AMONG other qualifications the President's committee of fifteen on civil rights had an enviable amount of drive. For in less than a year after their appointment these...
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As Americans See Communism J. L. BENVENISTI I HAVE BEEN ASKED by The Commonweal to give my impressions of America, and after this flattering invitation I have spent a great deal of time...
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Japan Finds a Level JAMES O. FREDERICK IN JAPAN there is an old proverb which reads: "Any misfortune may be a blessing in disguise." Present-day Japan is a living tribute to the truth of that...
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Medical Mission to Austria JOSEPH P. EVANS WHEN the telephone rang one day in mid-May and I was asked whether I should be willing to spend July in Austria and August in Hungary on a...
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Communications AGRICULTURAL WORKERS STRIKE Memphis, Tenn. TO the Editors: From time to time, an event with profound implications for our democratic way of life goes almost unnoticed. Such an...
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The Stage & Screen An Inspector Calls A STRANGE WEEK, with two period pieces of preA cisely the same date, plus one translated fantasy of a genre which I think can never be entirely...
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The Film's the Thing NDW THAT "the first phase of the committee's investigation of communism in the motion picture industry" (the phrasing is Chairman Thomas's, not mine) is over, it might...
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Books of the Week The Middle of the Journey. Lionel Trilling. Viking. $3. IT IS perhaps too easy to say of Lionel Trilling's first novel that it is a novel of ideas. The essential movement is...
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Other Recent Catholic Books THE MOST IMPOSING of the Catholic novels published recently is Francois Mauriac's "Therese" (Holt, $3.00). The original French text goes back to 1935 but the life...
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Vol. 047 Issue 004 (November 7 1947)
THE WEEK
