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...vital question is: Will the trend against Communism continue? It all depends, says Burnham, on the quality of the free world's political leadership. He has a mystic faith that in the long pull this leadership will not be wanting. In America's grass roots especially he has recently found the will to win. "The knowledge and intelligence, which enter into the synthesis of politics, are still needed to make ... as fruitful as possible a victory, as sparing as possible of blood and treasure. But the issue is no longer in doubt. Doubt is vanquished...
Emmanuel, according to Professor Breunig, is actually a Catholic mystic poet who is aligned with the Christian Socialists, a liberal movement opposed to both Capitalism and Communism: The name Pierre Emmanuel is a pen-name, symbolic of "the rock upon which his faith is founded" (Pierre) and God With Us (Emmanuel). (Pierre Emmanuel's original, and still legal name is Noel Mathieu...
...because it can't find a suitable city but because so many cities are seeking such an industtry to ward off unemployment. Boston would like to see the mill in adjoining Hingham or Everett; the only steel plant now in New England is a small one on the Mystic River flats in Everett. Hingham, however, has objected that it wants to keep itself residential and will not welcome the mill. Portsmouth, New Hampshire and the Maine ports have put in their bids for the plant, too, but their chances aren't very good because of their distance from other...
Until the source of ore in Labrador can be fully exploited, the steel mill can get its raw material from the already developed mines in Belle Isle, Newfoundland. The Mystic River Iron Works now produces 500 tons of pig iron daily from the Newfoundland ore. But the Belle Isle vein is not as rich as the ones in Labrador; thus, the further expansion of the New England steel industry will have to wait until a transportation system is established through the Canadian hinterland. Though a truck road now cuts across Labrador, it will be a few years before a railroad...
Peace was on every lip last week, repeated over & over like a mystic incantation whose simple reiteration could drive away the nightmare of war. There were songs about peace and a "peace dance." A patent-medicine company put out a new sedative tablet and proudly named it the Sleep of Peace. Prospective buyers could pick it up in a Peace drugstore and shuffle off to enjoy their rest on a Peace mattress. The first postwar Japanese civilian train to boast an observation car was christened the Peace Special and the government tobacco monopoly hired a corps on flashily dressed "peace...