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— Portrait of the Week— MR. MACMILLAN BEAT SIR OLIVER
The SpectatorFRANKS in the election to the Chancellorship of Oxford Univer- sity—a defeat for the Establishment, according to the victor, who sees himself, apparently, as a...
GUILLEBAUD'S TRAVELS
The SpectatorMIIE name of Claude Guillebaud first came I before the public in the late Thirties, when he' wrote a book praising Hiller's economic system He was not concerned with what the...
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Beware of Sympathy?
The SpectatorT HE pattern is becoming sadly familiar. A man with a hitherto unblemished character is arrested and charged with a serious crime. Friends believe him innocent : when, to their...
The BBC's Yugoslav Service
The SpectatorMHE BBC's Yugoslav service is—to judge by I information we have received about it from several sources—in a deplorable condition. Some of the evidence for this (there is much...
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Fire Hazard
The SpectatorVV ELCOMING' the DSIR report on the fire hazards from oil stoves, the spokesman of the manufacturers' association said that he saw no need to withdraw existing heaters from the...
End of the Line
The SpectatorT RR Spectator has sometimes been accused of animus against the popular papers : Ralph McCarthy—the editor of the'Star, a paper burst- ing With good intentions, but apt to...
Thirty Years On
The SpectatorFrom Our Geneva Correspondent N EXT Tuesday is the Ides of March; the day ppon which—as Artemidorus wrote, but Caesar did not read—'Security gives way to con- spiracy.' It is...
BERNARD LEVIN is still behind the Iron. Curtain. We are
The Spectatorsure he would like us to acknowledge messages from some readers who have wished him a pleasant stay there; and from others who have expressed the hope that it may be...
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Contributors
The SpectatorThe Yugoslav service often simply ignorei many important or interesting events, • affecting directly either Britain or Yugo- slavia, or both. Following the removal of the bones...
THE BBC's YUGOSLAV SERVICE
The SpectatorA BROADCASTING service for Yugoslavia from 'this country could fulfil any of three very different functions. It could be avowedly anti- Communist and propagandist, taking the...
General Policy
The SpectatorThe service does not comment on Yugo- slav affairs, in case by doing so it should offend the regime. 'Although Yugoslav listeners have many times asked for specific comments on...
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The Djilas Case
The SpectatorThe treatment of the Djilas case by the Yugoslav service was shabby. In accordance with the general 'line' of the Communist press and radio, the whole affair, which had aroused...
Staff
The SpectatorIn order to establish 'better relations' with the Yugoslav regime a system whereby staff is brought over from Yugoslavia for terms of up to five years was instituted in 1954....
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Wind of Change
The SpectatorBy STEPHEN KING-HALL I N 1957 I visited the Union of South Africa and stayed in many parts of this lovely and fascinating country. My travels took me to the towns and also to...
Effects The policy of the Yugoilav service Nis made it
The Spectatorpopular with the Yugoslav 'New Class,' although it hal had not the slightest effect upon their policy. The quarterly summary of the regular Listener Research Service, entitled...
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In Contempt
The SpectatorBy R. A. CLINE ONIEMPT of court has recently become an ‘,../ editor's nightmare: In 1742 Lord Hardwicke the Lord Chancellor, asked to commit an editor for publishing a...
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What For ?
The SpectatorBy CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Fruit my recent article in the Spectator sug- Ili Besting that the present British defence policy did not make sense, a correspondent wrote to say that...
World Disaster Relief
The SpectatorBy ERSKINE B. CHILDERS u are shortly to witness the negotiation of agreements not to contaminate the moon; We are already hearing discussion whether a Communist-made atomic...
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Beware of Sympathy*
The SpectatorFrom MARTIN LINDSAY, MP To : LIEUT.-COLONEL M ARTIN LINDSAY, DSO, MP. Solihull. December 1, 1945. Dear Colonel Lindsay, I have never before written to my Member of...
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SIR. — You imply in your article 'Classical Education' that historians and
The Spectatoreconomists, as well as scientists, are crammed for 0 level. But in all public schools and first-class grammar schools the vast majority of A-stream non-scientists will have done...
CLASSICAL EDUCATION SIR,—Surely your comment on the recommendations of the
The SpectatorOxford University committee set up to con- sider entrance requirements is misleading in one important respect? You quote the committee's ob- servation in paragraph 6 of its...
Torrid Zones Erskine B. Childers Classical Education Robert Blake. Rodney
The SpectatorStebbing, A. E. Gunther. Sixten Ringbonr Algerian Refugees H. Shaw Left-over Left Silvan Jones Nola F. G. Hedger Wallace Underdog Confessions Philip Toynbee Craves of Academe...
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HOLA
The SpectatorSIR,—At last. An honest appraisal of the facts behind that terrible `ikame HOLA. Together with a recognition of just one man's effort since the tragedy of the Mau Mau blight...
GRAVES OF ACADEME
The SpectatorSIR,—The answer to Sidney Harrison's troubles con- cerning the teaching of contemporary music to 'Grade 8, GCE, local authority grant' students is fairly straightforward. I...
SIR.—I n your leading article of February 26 you seem to
The Spectatordeny the existence' of 'any reason to believe that cramming 0 level Latin . . . is of any benefit to , say, historians or economists. . . .' You conclude by saying that ‘. . ....
Sta.—Mr. Cairns's sepulchral conundrums are not as difficult as all
The Spectatorthat to answer if names arc sub- stituted for numbers of successful alumni from the London conservatoires. From the Royal College of Music, which is the institution I know best,...
LEFT-OVER. LEFT
The SpectatorSIR,-1 am especially glad that it is Mr. Richard Clements of the Tribune who corrects me. Agreed, the Labour Party's Constitution has lots to say about issues besides common...
SIR.-11 is not only in matters such as the election
The Spectatorof a Chancellor or in the remission of Latin that the in of Oxford is somewhat behind, but equally In the admission of students. It is not uncommon for the head of a science...
SIR,—Mr. Sidney Harrison's letter in response to David Cairns's criticism
The Spectatorof the music colleges is most disturbing. He first comments adversely on the quality of many of the students, and then makes the astonish- ing statement that the teaching of...
ALGERIAN REFUGEES
The SpectatorS 1 R.--Bernard Levin, in 'A Spectator's Notebook,' In your issue of February 26, referred to 'consider- able confusion' about help to Algerian refugees from this country. Since...
UNDERDOG CONFESSIONS
The SpectatorSIR,-1 have been asked by Messrs. Weidenfeld and Nicolson to edit a symposium of underdog con- fessions. The idea is that contributors, who may remain anonymous if they wish,...
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CRITICAL QUARTERLY
The SpectatorSIR--1 think it would be a pity if your Critical Quar- terly correspondence ended on Mr. Gomme's note. It is admirable that Mr. Gomme should be so zealous for the high standard...
RHYMING SLANG
The SpectatorSIR,--.Like Julian Franklyn. whose Dictionary of Rhyming Slang Stephen Potter reviews and quotes, I used to think that 'to scarper,' meaning to beat it, or clear out, derived...
JOYCE'S LETTERS
The Spectatoram editing the second volume of James Joyce's Letters for publication by Faber and Faber and the Viking Press; I should be most grateful if anyone having letters from Joyce, or...
Theatre
The SpectatorGenuine Cannibals By ALAN BRIEN of the British theatre today that no one is even faintly surprised that the first three names in the Penguin vol- ume of New English Play-...
UNNATURAL CHILDBIRTH
The SpectatorStn. - -Isabel Quigly has missed the point of my article on childbirth. Of course the experience may be one of enormous happiness, but my argument is that this is diminished...
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New York Postscript
The Spectator, By all accounts and most standards an exceptionally dull season in the New York theatre with a mortality rate high even for the Great White Grave of Broadway. The main...
Television
The SpectatorRed Herrings By PETER FORSTER But the heart of the matter, surely, is that politicians and other appearing pundits have to fear what they say much less than what they seem in...
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Cinem a
The SpectatorChild in the Woodshed By ISABEL QUIGLY Never Take Sweets from a Stranger. (London Pav- ilion.) WITH the highly respectable support of the NSPCC, the National Council of Women....
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Ballet
The SpectatorPetit Petit By CLIVE BARNES WHEN the professional thesis-writers of academic America finally get around to ballet and choreogra- phers, some enthusiastic character is going to...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorThe Shadow of an Epic BY JOHN WAIN H ERE is a new instalment of Ezra Pound's Cantos bringing the total up to 109.* The Cantos are sometimes declared to be unreadable, but I do...
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Cromwell to Coward
The SpectatorTHE trade of the regular reviewer in the weekly pres s is a hard one. In 1,500 words or so he is expected not only to indicate the contents of the book he is discussing but also...
Bad Job
The SpectatorTwo Years to Do. By David Baxter. (Elek, 15s.) BOREDOM and bloody-mindedness seem to be the main emotions generated by military service in peace-time. One of the most revealing...
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Ends of the Earth
The SpectatorONE of the first to take advantage of post-Till conditions in Russia was Marvin Kalb, who sr o f longer there than most and was able to see c ° siderably more. He is a young...
Up with Hampstead!
The SpectatorTHE secret of London is the dramatic contrast that divides not only postal districts but streets, sides of streets or rows of houses from each other. A world, atmosphere and...
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Judaism Made Easy
The SpectatorThis Is My God. By Herman Wouk. (Cape, 18s.) HERMAN WOUK is an upper-middle-brow novelist of immense technical competence and a disturb- ing proclivity (usually manifested in...
A Book of Warnings
The SpectatorBERNARD BERGONZI H obsbawm himself sketches the evolution from traditional wage scales to ca' canny wage-bargain- .41,g; Co-operat Sidney Pollard traces the development of _ Ch...
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Leith, Balerno, Newbattle
The SpectatorThe Lothians. By Ian Finlay. (Collins, I8s.) curiously complementary volumes, for where as satisfactory book on any sector of Scotland th at has appeared for many years. The...
Public Showing
The Spectator'I WILL be highly amused if anyone thinks this book is autobiographical, for if it was I would indeed be an Awful Mess.' Mr. Bratby's novel is about James Brady, an artist. John...
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Cambridge Paperbacks. (C.U.P.) Issues include: Principia Ethica by G. E.
The SpectatorMoore, The Protestant Tradition by J. S. Whale, and What Happens in Hamlet by J. D. Wilson, all at 13s. 6d. Galaxy Books. (O.U.P.) Issues include : Eighteenth-Century English...
The Higher Paperback
The SpectatorCHEAPER editions of books of interest to the general reader, or much used by students and teachers, are bound to be welcome, especially when they are as well produced as the new...
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WALL STREET BLUES
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WHAT is wrong with Wall Street that it should behave so bear- ishly? Since the beginning of the year industrial shares have fallen sharply—by 121 per...
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INVESTMENT NOTES
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS rri HE start of a new account—and of a new I financial year for some Stock Exchange firm! —brought no fresh buying to the equity shall markets. 'Waiting for...
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COMPANY NOTES
The Spectatorrr HE merger last week between the Bank I Insurance Group and the fifteen-month-old Crosby Unit Trust, run by the merchant bankers Robert Fleming & Co., has produced the...
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'4Ie
The SpectatorRoundabout A Raspberry for the Teacher By KATHARINE WHITEHORN EDUCATIONALISTS nowadays are hoarse from complain- ing about the three Ps:' the parents, the public and the...
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Antics with Semantics
The SpectatorBy KENNETH J. ROBINSON I 3 111 . pheated way of talking about town planning. 4 1 :ar the worst. The architects' Institute has a 4°4 of getting its discourse done by people who...
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Wine of the Week
The SpectatorALTHOUGH red wine cann' be made from white go white wine can, and often made from black go Nearly all champagne is from a mixture of a t) three lots of black to on e white—all...
Consuming Interest
The SpectatorWell Oiled By LESLIE ADRIAN Olive and groundnut oil are the two which most recommend themselves to those who believe, with Dr. Magnus Pyke, that the fat you eat affects your...
SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1080
The SpectatorACROSS 1 Shc provided a raven's perch (6) 4 Hospitality that may cure babe (8) 9 Commercially speaking, it's about an offspring (6) 10 Sounds as if ten-year-olds lack moral...
SOLUTION OF CROSSWORD 1078
The SpectatorACROSS.--11. Rolling stone. 9 Sovereign. 10 Malin. 11 Tirade. 12 Leonardo. 13 Orphan. 15 Leaguers. 18 Dolgelly. 19 Vanner. 21 Virtuous. 23 Diadem. 26 ,)rood. 27 Craftsman. 28...