11 NOVEMBER 1955

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SPECTATOR

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ESTABLISHED 1828 No. 6646 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1955 PRICE 7d.

ISLAM AND THE MODERN STATE

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T 0 pin-point world trouble-spots on the map is to be conscious of Islam. Morocco, Algeria, the Levant, Pakistan, Indonesia — these are all lands of Islamic culture, and in...

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DEADLOCK, NOT DISASTER

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I T has not taken Russia long to clamber down from the intoxicating air of the Summit into a more homely and congenial atmosphere. The mystery is not so much that this has...

DR. ADENAUER'S HERITAGE

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From our German Correspondent ' T is rare these days that the chief of government of a major industrial country can afford to leave his post for a period of months without...

JAMMING

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W HEN Mr. Kaganovich said op Sunday that 'ideas knov. no frontiers' he was careful to point out that this only applied to 'revolutionary' ideas. It is no secret that Moscow's...

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Portrait of the Week

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T HIS week has been notable for an especially resounding 'Nye' from M. Molotov, who, still under fire from Pravda, is evidently resuming his role as the hammer of the...

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Political Commentary

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BY HENRY FAIRLIE 0 N the day after the Burgess-Maclean debate I lunched with an American journalist. He told me that in the United States the statements by Mr. Macmillan, Sir...

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TH E INTERESTING correspondence in The Times about 'rings' has now

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finished, but I see that other newspapers have taken up this disquieting subject. It is in everybody's interest that they should be broken; and no one would be more pleased to...

MR. BILLY GRAHAM at Bedford: 'His [President Eisenhower's] associations and

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conferences in the White House have taught him there is something wrong with human nature.'

A Spectator's Notebook

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THERE ARE times when even those who are most sympathetic to the new India feel like tearing their hair. I learn that Mr. Aubrey Menen's book Rama Retold (published by Chatto and...

PHAROS

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SUDAN INTELLIGENCE

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THE Sudanese Government is restoring order with commend- able speed and efficiency in the Southern Sudan. . . . It was impressive to see how painstakingly the Sudanese army has...

BULL-FIGHTING is illegal in this country. Many people think that

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the sport is unjustifiably cruel. It is at least arguable that for these reasons bull-fights should not be shown on television. But if a television company does decide to show a...

WHEN THE Tate Gallery Annual Report came out last year

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(for the first time since 1938) a whispering campaign against the Director of the Gallery, Sir John Rothenstein, was at its height. The report itself, being a record of...

rN 1950 a foreign diplomat was calling on an important

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person at the Foreign Office. To his surprise he noticed a young man in the ante-room who was busily cleaning a penny whistle, and as soon as the visitor had entered the sanctum...

I WENT DOWN to Brighton the other week to see

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Peter Brook's Hamlet before it set off for Moscow. It opens shortly at the Vakhtangov Theatre where it is not likely to cause the thunderous protests that clapped around...

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The President's Power

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BY RICHARD H. ROVERE IT is awkward to speak of good luck and happy coincidence in connection with a coronary thrombosis, but there is no escap- ing the fact that the United...

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X-Rays Use and Abuse BY JAMES F. BRAILSFORD HIS year

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we celebrate the diamond jubilee of the dis- covery of X-rays on November 8, 1895, by Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen. He was fifty years of age at the time and Professor of Physics and...

Christmas Books Next Week

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EVELYN WAUGH on the Novels of Alfred Duggan PETER QUENNELL on the Etruscans J. D. Scorr-1975 KINGSLEY AMIS on Jazz Books A lso The Spectator's Christmas Fare Supplement ANDRE...

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City and Suburban

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BY JOHN BETJEMAN I SING of St. David's College, Lampeter. It is an elegant Georgian Gothic quadrangle at the edge of a little town lost among the hills and fields of...

A Rumble From Below

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BY MICHAEL WINNER (Downing College, Cambridge) T HE sound of a jazz band, loud and irrepressible, cut through the drizzle of a Cambridge night and echoed round the cobbled...

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Strix

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The Half-Seen World I SPENT most of a long train journey last week alternately reading Maurice Baring's Lost Lectures and looking out of the window at the landscape, which was...

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Letters to the Editor

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Profit-sharing J. Ward Daw `Without a Hearer?' Rev. J. C. Vaughan Wilkes Capital Punishment Victor Gollancz Rings Richard Bickersteth The Name's the Same Peter Forster Mr....

`WITHOUT A HEARER ?'

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SIR,—You were kind enough to publish recently an article from me entitled 'Without a Hearer?' I was naturally interested to see what, if any, response this might evoke in your...

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

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SIR,—Support for the National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment is in- creasing with extraordinary speed. A signifi- cant pointer was provided by the debate at...

RINGS SIR,—In your issue of October 21 you stated that

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there was a 'knock' of £50,000 after the recent sale at Ashburnham Place. As Agent for the Trustees of the Ashburnham Settled Estates I arranged that sale. It was entrusted to...

THE NAME'S THE SAME

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SIR,—Reviewing my novel, The Primrose Patti Isabel Quigly refers to my 'respectable literar antecedents.' Lest this be misunderstood, may I make it clear, out of fairness to...

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OXFORD DIVIDED SIR,—II is only out of personal respect for

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the Dean of Christ Church that I am replying to Mr. Blake's letter of last week. The Oxford press reported the Dean as having appealed for the support of Christ Church Members,...

SIR,—I hesitate to criticise one who is an epoch-making novelist,

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a brilliant poet. 0 , modern-minded lecturer and critic, but I foe' that Mr. Amis has been a bit too generous to Ker. I used to attend Ker's lectures and Y 185 simple enough to...

THE PURE IN HEART

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SIR,—There must be a great many people who have read Six Against 7'yrantty (by Inge Scholl) who have felt that we in this country ought to pay some tribute to those very...

THE SCHOLAR AS CRITIC

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SIR,—I do not think we ought to accept Mr. Amis's belief that W. P. Ker was 'hostile or contemptuous', to 'modernity' without weigh' ing the evidence of the preface to his...

Sm,—Sir Angus Watson starts his letter in your issue of

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November 4 with a question. He wants to be reassured that the Chancellor's new taxes will 'spread the burden among all individual citizens,' He then goes on to suggett that this...

MR. BUTLER'S BUDGET Sra,—Sir Angus Watson says that he grants

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• the intention of Mr. Butler's Budget is to enforce reduced spending by our citizens. One presumes that this statement is not meant to be taken as it stands. Most citizens...

Opectator

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AT the Kent meeting on Saturday last, Lord WINCHELSEA said he would oppose the vote by d ballot, because he hoped to God the day woul d never come when an Englishman should be...

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Music

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ERNST MARISCHKA'S film (English version by Robert Flaherty) of Bach's St. Matthew Pas- sion, now showing in morning performances at the Academy Cinema, is one more proof that...

Cinema

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STORM OVER THE NILE. (Odeon, Marble Arch) -QUEEN BEE. (Leicester Square.)— MISTER ROBERTS. (Warner.) A. E. W. MASON'S famous novel The Four Feathers has been adapted for the...

Contemborary Arts

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Art MOORS AND SPENCER THIS month brings exhibitions by two of our most distinguished and controversial artists: the one, Henry Moore, who has, since the war, gained an...

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Poem and Message

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Out on the tormented midnight sea your sails are blown in jeopardy. Gales of grief and terrors force you from the spirit's chartered course. But, in the storm, lighthouses mark...

LA PLUME De MA Twill. (Garrick Theatre.) Goon, clean fun

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is surely the last notion we associate with the idea of a French revue, and in most respects this charming entertainment differs utterly from both the modern big-scale London...

Theatre

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THE WINTER'S TALE. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.) I TAKE it that the only really satisfactory way of playing The Winter's Tale is as an elaborate masque. To attempt it as...

Television and Radio

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Ina BBC Television Service' offered one of its very best social-survey-type programmes last week (Special Enquiry : 'Britain's Teenagers') and the most fascinating new radio...

Song

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I love my love with cups of tea I drink her health in wine but when she says she'll come to me and quite informally be mine I want to know the reason why she'll give herself so...

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BOOKS

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The Mind of Autolycus BY JOHN WAIN T HIS novel,* or rather this opening fragment of what was evidently going to be a long episodic narrative, has a quality that I can only call...

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The Shallow End

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RUSSIAN HOLIDAY. By Allan Chappelow. (Harrap, 18s.) THE SOVIET UNION AFTER STALIN. By Helene and Pierre Lazareff. (Odhams, 16s.) IN A recent review I divided books on the Soviet...

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Two Chinas

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IN Two CHINAS. MEMOIRS OF A DIPLOMAT. By K. M. Panikkar. (Allen and Unwin, 12s. 6d.) THESE two books are by writers as different from each other in background, training,...

Early Memories

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THE family holiday at the `ozone factories' is a comparatively modern institution. The English are a valiant race and the appear- ance of smutty trains with knife-board seats...

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Colonial Documents

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ENGLISH HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. VOL. IX. AMERICAN COLONIAL As successive volumes appear in this large and ambitious col- lection . , one tries not only to assess the value of...

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New Novels

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THE STORY-TELLER. By Gil Buhet. (Jonathan Cape, 13s. 6d.) M. BUHET contemplates the rich putrescence of Lyons in 1945 with a shrewd and gleeful eye. Golden Head Publications,...

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T HE CALL TO HONOUR. By Charles de Gaulle.

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Vol. I and documents. (Collins, 18s. and 25s.) THESE lapidary memoirs of the most lapidary of the Allied war leaders have already been reviewed in the Spectator by Professor...

Country Life

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BY IAN NIALL THE National Parks and Access to the Country- side Act of 1949 is one of the blessings of this decade so far as walkers are concerned, and the latest benefit...

BACK TO NORMAL

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Things are back to normal in most of the tripper and tourist haunts, and up the valley at B. the trees are shedding their leaves in a carpet that covers roads that could hardly...

MANURE FOR BULBS

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A reader asks about adding manure to bulb compost and manuring bulbs already planted. Leaf mould or peat is all that bulbs need as a rule. Bonemeal can be applied as a dressing,...

LABOUR-SAVING WAYS

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One or two friends tell me that the skin should never be removed from a chicken pre- pared for the pot because if it is cooked in this state the flesh will lose its flavour, and...

Chess

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BY PHILIDOR No. 23. C. J. ALLISON (Hon. Men., B.C.F. Tourney No. 77) WHITE, 11 men. mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Neumann: B-Kt 7,...

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MR. BUTLER, THE PRESS AND THE CITY

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By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT seems that we are all at sixes and sevens. The 'Establishment' in the City is annoyed with Mr. Butler, Mr. Butler is annoyed at the misunderstanding...

COMPANY NOTES I By CUSTOS MY cautionary advice last week

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has been more than justified by the present dismal performance of the stock markets. Although Mr. Butler himself issued a warning that the effects of the credit squeeze would...

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A daily newspaper recently referred in - advertently to 'a five

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point increase in the cost of loving.' Competitors are to imagine that a Cost-of-Loving Index is actually kept by a Ministry of Matrimonial and Allied Aflaires, and are asked...

The Old Man

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The usual prize 'Le Viedlard' : of E5 was offered for a translation of Henri de Regnier's poem, J'ai fui les flocs mouvants pour ce calme vallon. 11 est fertile. Un bois y est...

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 860

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ACROSS 1 'Fill high the cup with - wine!' (Byron) (6) 4 Sailors in the drink, literally (8). 10 Put shortly, not a very distinguished appendage (7). 11 Drop a line then, won't,...

The winners of Crossword No. 858 are: Miss MOLLIE GeokoEsoN,

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Milton House, Wick,Caithness, and MRS. D. F. BaosissoN,Swan House,selieridae , Ashford, Kent.