Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...craft were Philippine "Q-boats," 65-foot torpedo carriers which Douglas MacArthur had ordered years before, when he first became the Commonwealth's Field Marshal. The four boats should have met before dawn, then hidden near the shore until the next night. But the Q-boats had taken a beating since Dec. 7 and their tired engines could not do their rated 39 knots. The two parties had to risk a daylight voyage and did not meet until nearly noon...
...most challenging are the contributions of Father Smyth of the Society of the Catholic Commonwealth and of an anonymous senior who writes under the pseudonym of Clark Hamilton '43. After a long and somewhat tedious statement of early Christian dogma, Father Smyth concludes that Christianity is in essence a collectivist faith, that it must concern itself with the evils of this world, and that the only Christian solution of those ills is therefore a collectivist one. This article is more Leftist in tone than even the famed Malvern Conference, and demonstrates that the Church both at home and abroad...
...political parties, Gandhi's Indian National Congress and the Moslem League. A conference of Indian nonparty leaders, led by liberal Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, at once passed a resolution asking Britain to declare India's position "identical with those of other self-governing units of the British Commonwealth...
Captains of the Clouds (Warner) is virtually a documentary of Canada's large part in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. And it is a very pretty picture as long as it sticks to its subject. Chock-full of Royal Canadian Air Force men, bulging with the atmosphere and habiliments of their training, it also has more than its share of the lushest Techni-colored flying shots yet made...
...Josh White accompanied Libby Hofman, who learned to sing the blues from him, over at the Balinese Room of the Somerset this past week. He has produced three fine albums, devoted especially to his songs, but a musician of his accomplishments is just another Negro to the innkeepers of Commonwealth Avenue. Of the leading local hotels, only the Ritz would let him sign the register, and they informed him there that the management would not be responsible for any observations the guests might pass in the elevator. Josh stayed at Mother's Lunch, a colored musicians' stopping place over...