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An Extraordinary Ten Years Of Contrasts
Page 5 from 29th December 1989IT was the age of materialism. Margaret Thatcher revived capitalism. It was the age of altrism. Never before had so many people given to charity.......
Speaking Volumes For The Festive Season
Page 7 from 2nd December 1994In the run-up to Christmas, when readers may start to wonder what to buy for Christmas presents, Cecilia Bromley-Martin asked some of the 'Catholic......
A Blank Generation Hero Searches For Redemption
Page 15 from 13th March 2009Jay McInerney’s new collection of short stories is surprisingly full of Catholic themes, finds Matt Thorne The Last Bachelor BY JAY MCINERNEY......
A New Crimean War
Page 6 from 14th November 1941A LITTLE PENINSULA IN WHICH SO MANY NATIONS HAVE RULED AND FOUGHT by Humphrey J. T. Johnson ' W HEN I was at a private school I was drilled by a......
Politics
Page 6 from 13th March 1942ON STARVING ONE'S NEIGHBOURS Famine over Europe. By Roy Walker. (Andrew Dakers. 55.) Reviewed by STORMONT MURRAY I N reading this book I was......
The Church In France Pursues A " Isleutral" Policy...
Page 1 from 31st July 1942By a Diplomatic Correspondent. 'I here has been some discussion in the United States about the reIhtionship of the Vichy Government with the......
The Fear Of Fear Itself
Page 11 from 22nd September 2006W hat really brought home the severity of the controversy over the Pope's speech was a phone call from the police. "What can I do for you?" I......
Civilisation (3)
Page 8 from 24th March 1939W HERE our civilisation differs from the Greek is that the Greeks had no previous civilisation behind them which was not Greek : and the break made......
New Novels
Page 6 from 4th February 1972by M. E. Jarrett The Last Laugh by Tony Gray (Heinemann £2.10) The Mouth of Truth by James Allan Ford (Gollancz £1.80) Sahara Road by Simon......
Topical 'uncle Tom'
Page 7 from 12th May 1967FILMS By Freda Bruce Lockhart HARRIET BEECHER STOWE may or may not have presented Abraham Lincoln with a copy of her now world-famous novel of......