10 AUGUST 1951

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Egypt in the Dock The United States has now joined

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Britain and France in sub- mitting to the Security Council proposals for bringing to an end the interruption to which shipping passing through the Suez Canal has been subjected...

Sincerity in Korea

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Some of the subtler questions of Chinese philosophy are said to be concerned with the meaning of the word " sincerity." Thd negotiators at Kaesong have shown that the fringe of...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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HE reporters for British newspapers who set out to represent the Communist youth festival at Berlin as a damp squib have had to change their story as the week has gone on. This...

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4'he Duke at Edinburgh

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The Presidential address delivered by the Duke of Edinburgh at the opening session of the British Association on Wednesday calls for, and will certainly receive, considered...

Words Over Kashmir

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o Just what good did Mr. Nehru and Mr. Liaquat Ali Khan think they were doing by their exchange of discourtesies last week-end? Is it a proper occupation for two Dominion Prime...

The Doctor's Due

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The Minister of Health, who is wisely showing himself more pliable than his predecessor, is well-advised to meet the demand of the General Medical Services Committee to accept...

Nip in the Air The first keen nip of winter

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is in the air. Mr Noel Baker's announcement at a Press conference on Tuesday that the domestic ration of coke and anthracite is to be at a maximum of thirty hundredweight per...

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WRONG WAYS WITH RUSSIA

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N OT for the first time in recent history, the soundest comment on an event of importance in the international field has come from Mr. Lester Pearson, the Canadian Minister for...

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A SPECTATOR 'S NOTEBOOK

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HAVE always been interested in academic-institutions which grant diplomas and degrees of various kinds to persons who crave for such things and succeed in satisfying the usually...

Cricket is a strange game; and its vagaries are part

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of its attraction. For a recent example of the fallacies of form the recent University match is worth recalling. On 'the records of both teams the result was in Cambridge's...

It is no doubt desirable in the national interest that

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the Customs and Excise should do its job efficiently. But it is dis- tinctly irritating for Britons—obviously returning, and relatively virtuous, holiday-makels—who have...

The death of Baron Ernst von Weiszacker, no doubt the

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in- direct result of an imprisonment which many people will continue to consider unjust, leaves opinion in this and other countries still divided as to the degree of his...

" Every man who reports a conversation in which he

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himself has taken part gives ,subconsciously a twist to it to his own advantage."—Sir Charles Webster in last week's Spectator. " I quietly stuck to what I had said when Mr....

I see that remarks I made about U.N.E.S.C.O. salaries have

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evoked some comment in the correspondence columns of the Spectator. In particular, the point—a quite arguable one— is made that since the headquarters of the United Nations...

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Can Machines Think?

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By M. V. WILICFS F ROM time to time headlines about mechanical or electronic brains appear in the newspapers. The reference is usually to one of the large automatic...

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Jordan Valley Irrigation

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By M. G. 1ONIDES COUPLE of weeks ago the Government of Jordan pub- lished a report by a British firm of consulting engineers, Sir Murdoch Macdonald and Partners, on a project to...

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The Cathedral School

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ByJAMES NOWELL I N the Middle Ages the Church was the source of education. Then wealthy traders endowed local grammar schools up and down the country ; and later, in the...

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Brave New Jelly

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By C. K. ALLEN, K.C. H E is a poor-spirited creature who does not retain an affection for the jelly which brightened his childhood. It was the colours that did it ; for, as...

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The Bravade

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By W. HILTON-YOUNG g4 HAT are you celebrating? " we asked the girl at the inn. " We are celebrating the arrival of the Saint in his boat." " And when was that? " - " That was...

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UNDERGRADUATE PAGE

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Soldiers at Salisbury By D. R. HURD (Trinity College, Cambridge) M ANY centuries hence a plough will turn up fragments of brick or vestiges of the camp rubbish-dump, and the...

Cape Point

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This is the end of Africa And still the sunshine is our familiar, Tempered now by the winds of two oceans; Here by kind permission of man The stilted remote ostrich, The...

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MARGINAL COMMENT

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By HAROLD NICOLSON F UNCTIONAL beauty, I have heard it said, is the major aesthetic discovery of the twentieth century. I am suspicious of such generalisations. In the first...

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CONTEMPORARY ARTS

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CINEMA ig Love Happy." (Carlton.)-- ,4 The Man in a White Suit." (Odeon, Marble Arch.)-- 44 The Iron Man." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.) ONE of the greatest tragedies of...

BALLET

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Les Ballets des Champs Elysees. (Cambridge Theatre.) IF any company can be sure of the goodwill both of London's public and critics, it is Les Ballets des Champs Elysees, who...

MUSIC

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles is an obvious operatic subject, has indeed been used for an opera ; but The Mayqr of Casterbridge has not, to my knowledge, been attempted until this...

"int Opettator.". august 9tb. 1851

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VICTORIA STREET THE opening of Victoria Street effects an immense improvement in the Metropolis, not only by adding an important and much-wanted thoroughfare, but by carrying...

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THEATRE

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COMPARED with some other recent productions, especially the one at the Old Vic earlier this season, Stratford's Henry V is a little on the gloomy side. There are the trumpets...

EXHIBITION

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" EIVrERED at Stationers' Hall." The words have not been seen in a new book since 1911, when the Copyright Act finally removed from the Stationers' Company the ancient privilege...

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THE FESTIVAL OF VERONA

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THE Verona Festival deserves homage from the English, even if it is difficult for many to attend. For it is an offspring of Romeo and Juliet, that is to say of the strong...

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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 78

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Set by Ronald Lambton In the absence of any celebration of the Festival of Britain by, the present Poet Laureate, we may be forgiven for calling on the posthumous services of a...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 75

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Report by Margaret Usborne A prize of f5 was offered for a limerick with rhymes conspicuous for their absence. Well, no doubt I asked for it, setting an unrhymed limerick—...

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Seen from Pakistan

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SIR,-The following extract from a letter just received from an Englishman (civilian) resident in Paldstan may be of interest: "It is remarkable how everyone, including the civil...

Sue,—" Obstetric Practitioner " complains that " the wife of

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an insured man can spend fourteen days in hospital at a cost to the nation of £15 a week, and yet receive all the cash benefits without deduction." So, of course, can an...

Making Ends Meet SIR, —I have only just seen the

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article by a bank clerk in - your issue of July 27th, but I-hope you can find space for a few. words from a much older man who is now retired on pension after spending nearly...

Spain and- - Europe _

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Sta.—SpaM would revive, quickly enough, if she received.;*: Onerous amount of Marshall Aid, not all of which would be spent`on arms, on enriching a corrupt bureaucracy, the...

SIR.—How would your contributors (and all concerned) like to be

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paid once a year in arrears? What a nightmare ! For ages many Church of '.Scotland ministers were in that unenviable position, and badly paid at that. Now, many are paid...

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.L ETTERS - TO THE EDITOR Conservatism and Liberty • Sta.—Mr. HubertHams, in your issue of August 3rd; seems to be making rather heavy Weather over the prospects of the...

Naming the -Stars

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SIR.—The Astronomer Royal, in his review of Mr. Peter Lum's book, The Stars in Our Heavens,- says: " The names of the star constellations, . with the exception of those in a...

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The Spanish Ulcer sut,.—I regret that by a slip 1

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have made it appear that I think that Louis XIV and Charles I were cousins. I should have written " the father of the cousin of his soverei g n."—Yours &c.,

Talk Yourself Out of This lit,--It is flatterin g even to

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be mentioned at all in Marginal Comment ; ut disappointing to find that cne's voice is as unfamiliar on the wireless to Mr. Nicolson as his own voice is to him when he hears it...

In the Garden

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This is the time when the wheel of life slows down and the spokes are no longer a whirl of multi-coloured flame. The year at its apex has a moment of contemplative suspension....

This Summer's Strawberries

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think the reason for the bullet-like strawberries, of which Mr. Massin g ham's correspondent complained, was probably want of water. This year my beds re q uired two thorou g h...

The Leicester Galleries

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SIR, —On July 6th you published a kind and g enerous tribute to the late Cecil Phillips from Mr. Derek Hill. Mr. Dou g las Cooper, in your issue of Au g ust 3rd, has taken the...

Wild Martagon

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There is a wood on the wolds where the marta g on-lily g rows wild. ' The founder of this illustrious line (for the flowers have been there for years) must have been a g arden...

A Delicate Hint

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SIR. —Once a g ain the Spectator is bein g enlivened for a brief period by the entertainin g Strix in place of the rather tedious Janus. 'Is it too much to ask that Janus...

COUNTRY LIFE

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WILD flowers thrive on limestone and, since the oolite of the Cotswolds is the kindest of all limestones ; there they excel. In the dells, the disused " guars " and by the...

Tied Cottages SIR, —In view of the Government's attitude towards tied

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cotta g es, it would, be interestin g to know if those built on the Government experi- mental farm at Du gg leby in Yorkshire—for instance—are " tied," or

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Reviews of the Week

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Shakespeare's Imagery THE translation in a revised and augmented form of Professor Wolfgang Clemen's Shakespeares Bilder (Bonn, 1936) is heralded by Dr. Dover Wilson with the...

Religion in the Factory

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IN this book, which is one of outstanding importance, Sir George Schuster sets forth what he regards as being the reasons why the high evel of ipdustrial efficiency can only be...

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Gentle Rambler

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Walk With Me. By Katherine Everett. (Constable. 525. 6d.) I SHOULD call this book old-fashioned—using the phrase in an altogether laudatory and agreeable sense. It might have...

A Dublin Poet

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Reservations. Poems by Valentin Iremonger. (Dublin : Envoy. London : Macmillan. 6s.) THE verse of Valentin Iremonger—the first volume that this quite famous Dublin poet has...

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The Debt to • Chatham House

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;THE two series of Chatham House volumes familiarly known as the " Survey " and the " Documents " were in the inter-war period the indispensable companion of all students of...

Trials and Errors

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Cases that Changed the Law. By H. Montgomery Hyde. (Heine- mann. 1 as. 6d.) LAW is stranger than fiction, and there seems to be an almost unlimited public appetite for its...

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Fiction

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Miss DU MAURIER'S latest novel has moved me to look up what I thought about her twenty years ago. Of The Loving Spirit I wrote " She has a fine sense of structure, and her...

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The Public and Preparatory Schools Yea . r. Book, t95i. Edited by

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J. F. Burnet and L. W. Taylor. (Black. r6s.) FOR 62 years, since 1889, this official book of reference of the Headmasters' Conference and the Association of Preparatory Schools...

Shorter Notices

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The Universal Singular. By Pierre Em- manuel. Translated from the French by Erik de Maily. (Grey Walls Press. 13s. 6d.) A POET and intellectual of a deeply religious cast, M....

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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By CUSTOS INVESTORS in these days are tough folk. Well schooled in fortitude and always, it seems, prepared to give hope the benefit of many doubts, they have refused to allow...

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THE "SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 638

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[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the firs; correct Solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, August 21st, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street,...

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