WEEK BY WEEK
From the League to the UN
HAS man progressed or lost ground, during the past two decades, in his quest for collective security, his uncertain strivings for world government? The League...
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Another Berlin Diary
Five days in the city where East meets West.
By ERIK VON KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN
MONDAY.
THE first shock we received after our arrival in Berlin was the sight of the Templehof Airfield...
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FROM ROME
The Mullah and His Eight Wives
THE Kinsey report came to mind again and again as I talked with an extraordinary man during the long hours of our train trip from the Caspian Sea to Teheran....
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THE LABOR MOVEMENT
The Menace of the Guest Speaker
A FEW weeks ago I went through a shattering experience: I was a delegate to the Massachusetts state CIO convention.
At the opening session a...
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Communications
The Use of Force
Medford, Mass.
TO THE Editors: As a regular reader (and warm admirer) of The Commonweal, I hope you will permit me to enter an objection to your reply to the letter...
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The Stage
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
DIRECTOR Robert Lewis and performers Frederic March and Morris Carnovsky have been extraordinarily astute in deciding to play Ibsen's vigorous old broadside for what...
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The Screen
BED OF NEUROSES
IF YOU don't examine the characters too carefully, you'll find Halls of Montezuma a rousing, well-made picture about a company of Marines taking over a Japanese-held...
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The Science of Machiavelli
By SERGE HUGHES
OUT of necessity a number of our ideas are makeshift constructions, provisional platforms just solid enough to bear the weight of impatient thoughts,...
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Of Note
A New World
THE most recent issue of The Third Hour (P. O. Box No. 6, Lenox Hill Station, 221 East 70th Street, New York 21) carries an excerpt from the posthumous papers of Nicholas...
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Book:
From Napoleon to Stalin: Comments on European History. A. J. P. Taylor. Hamisk Hamilton (British Book Centre). $3.
MR. TAYLOR is an historian, an Oxford don, and the author of several volumes...
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