12 SEPTEMBER 1947

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The Jews at Hamburg It is regrettable that any force

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had to be used in getting the Jews ashore at Hamburg on Tuesday and Wednesday, but the occupants of only one of the three ships gave serious trouble, and it is clear that the...

Stimulus for the Ruhr

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Paper targets are one thing, and production up to target level another ; that has been abundantly experienced in the coal-fields of this country. The same reservation must be...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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T HE news of the efforts of the Paris economic conference to pro- vide the raw material for a Marshall plan, and of the State Department to see that that plan is put into effect...

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Making the Fats Go Round

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The Chairman's speech at the annual general meeting of Lever Brothers and Unilever provides an example of the resilience of big business. Mr. Geoffrey Heyworth in a masterly...

Problems for the Assembly

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The Second Assembly of the United Nations, which opens on Tuesday in New York, ought to be an occasion of the first import- ance. It may possibly prove to be that, but in...

A Policy Cabinet

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It was fully time the Haldane Report of 1918 on the machinery of government was taken down from the shelf, and no one is better fitted to raise the question of its application...

Indefinite Durance

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The Prime Minister's statement on the repatriation of German prisoners rests on legality, rather than equity, and indeed on the stretching of legality to something very near...

Another Greek Government

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The desire of the American authorities for a more broadly based Government in Greece has been to a great extent met by the formation of a coalition between Populists and...

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LESSONS FROM GRIMETHORPE

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T HE strike at Grimethorpe Colliery carries with it a number of hard but useful lessons. The general public, faced with the spec- tacle of 400,000 tons of coal already lost in a...

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The Arab Higher Committee's suggestion that Jews who wish to

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migrate from Palestine should move to " the free Jewish republic of Birobijan " strjkes me as slightly disingenuous. Birobijan, as perhaps not every schoolboy knows, is situated...

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The British Delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations is quite frankly not impressive. Mr. Bevin, of course, is not going ; there was never any prospect of that,...

Lord Riddell, I learn from Lord Camrose's new book on

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the Press and its Controllers, in addition to being chief proprietor of the News of the World, had at one time an interest in the Church Times. The association seems something...

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The legend "Turnings to Members of the House of Commons and many Titled People, &c.," falls agreeably on the ear, even though the meaning is not immediately apparent. Actually I...

I am asked from time to time what I think

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of various news-letters of one sort and another, particularly the sort that lays high claim to access to special and authoritative information. Well, these publi- cations are of...

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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T HE House of Lords took itself and the occasion seriously on Tuesday. The attendance would have made a very respectable show in their Lordships' own Chamber, which is, of...

Women's skirts, or dresses, or whatever they call them, are

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to be some inches longer. So it has been decreed in Paris, where such things are decided. But the judgement of Paris may be upset by the judgement of Sir Stafford, and I hope it...

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SHORTAGES AND CONTROLS

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By PROFESSOR A. C. PIGOU "S O long as there are shortages you must have controls." To some readers this sentence—it is taken from the Prime Minis- ter's address to the Labour...

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CONSCRIPTS IN GERMANY

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By THE VERY REV. CUTHBERT BARDSLEY I T has been decided to allow young conscripts of 18 years to spend almost the whole of their army career in Germany. One finds it hard to...

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AFRICA TO THE RESCUE

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By G. D. K. McCORMICK T HERE is a lamentable tendency today among European states- men to forget that the continent of Africa exists. At the most they seem to regard it, if...

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THE AMERICAN COURT

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By SIR ALEXANDER PATERSON " T S the father of this boy in Court? " asks the crupulous Chair- .' man of the Juvenile Court, wishing to catS a glimpse of the home background and...

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HOLIDAYS, LOCH LAIDON

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Still loch, asleep beneath the brooding hills Where heather glows and the lone curlew calls: Thy gifts are freedom from earth's weary ills, And hope at dawn, and peace when...

CLASSLESS SOCIETY ?

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By DR. C. K. ALLEN,- K.C. T HE Housing Act, 1936, gave local authorities power, in certain circumstances, " to acquire any land . . . as a site for the erection of houses for...

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MARGINAL COMMENT

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. By HAROLD NICOLSON W HEN I was a young man I was much impressed by a sentence which I read in a contemporary book of maxims and apophthegms. " God has given us our...

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THE CINEMA

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International Documentary Film Festival at Edinburgh IT was fitting that Scotland should be the venue of the first inter- national festival of documentary films ever to be held...

MUSIC

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THE Promenade Concerts are coming to an end this week, and it may be worth while considering one or two points which have sug- gested themselves during the season. The position...

CONTEMPORARY ARTS

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THE THEATRE `'Point Valaine." By Noel Coward. (Embassy.) Poini Valaine is "a small island situated a mile or so south of one of the larger British West Indies." It owes its...

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ART

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THE gallery of the Print Room at the British Museum has been re- opened, and at least one visitor found the exhibition in honour of the event quite staggering in its richness. I...

ON THE AIR

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THE scene of The First Born, a poetic drama by Christopher Fry, was ancient Egypt, and I think a mild criticism of the timing of this broadcast is justified—even though that...

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Sm,—I hope, seeing that the last time I took a

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hand in party politics was as chairman of committee of the South St. Pancras Liberal Associa- tion—some five and thirty years ago to be sure—I may still speak as a Liberal. It...

Sin, —The admirable letter in your issue of August 29th

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surely voices the feelings of large numbers of those who, like myself, are profoundly disquieted by the state of affairs facing us at this moment. As Mr. Ian Simpson says, " the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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A.B.C. OF THE CRISIS SIR, —In your issue of September 5th Mr. Harrod accuses Britain of dishonourable conduct on the ground of her alleged violation of the Anglo- American Loan...

Sut,—I became entitled to vote four and a-half years ago

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; I was in the Forces during the General Election, when I voted Liberal. I hope my viewpoint will have a chance of reaching those who declare themselves in favour of a...

A CHALLENGE TO LIBERALS

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Snt,—Mr. Ian Simpson's letter (Spectator, August 29th) provokes thoughts. There is nothing, he says, between the good conservative and the good Liberal of 1947. There is, of...

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EMIGRATION

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Sol,—Your comments on emigration are timely. Whilst we all are deeply indebted and grateful to Australia, Canada, New Zealand. South Africa, &c., for their really magnificent...

THE GERMAN TRIALS

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Sm,—May I offer some comments on your discriminating article on The German Trials? I `spent the month of July in an .extensive visit to churches in the British and American...

THE ARCHBISHOPS ON THE CRISIS

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Sta,—Janus (in your issue of September 5th) has slightly misquoted the Primates. Dr. Garbett, in the York Diocesan Leaflet, did not propose that "his Grace of Canterbury should...

Sta,—As the correspondent referred to by the Secretary, Churches' Com-

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mittee on Gambling, Rev. J. Clark Gibson, may I suggest that he reads my letter with more care. I have not undertaken a " survey " of gambling. My committee, under the...

FOOTBALL POOL PROBLEMS

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Sta,—Personally I am a gambler. I gamble occasionally on horses, more frequently on dogs, and I would play chemin-de-fer and roulette if Mr. Dalton would allow me sufficient...

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Revived Music

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One of the delights of rain after a long period of drought is that it wets the whistle of a number of birds that have been oppressed by the heat of August. It is a commonplace...

Unripened Fruits

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An orchard owner is distressed because the immense crop of plums has failed to ripen fully in spite of long hours of hot sunshine. He cannot eat his Victorias raw; and he...

IN DEFENCE OF TORQUAY Sitt,—In your issue of The Spectator

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for August 22nd there is a letter In Defence of Torquay in which it is stated that I g ave and endowed Torbay Hospital. This is a mistake ; it was the g ift of my late sister,...

THE CONTROL OF LAUNDRIES SIR, — It is a pity that your

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correspondent Dr. R. L. Kitchin g did not take the trouble to make full en q uiries before writin g to you on the subject of infection throu g h laundries. Had he done so, he...

TOO MANY FEWS" SIR, —As the reviewer who used the expression

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" q uite a few," to which your correspondent took objection, I must protest a g ainst his interpretation of the meanin g I attached to it. In my view, " q uite a few " is not an...

Shocks A picture was published :ast week of flax, now

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a widely spread crop, bein g " stooked." Is the word allowable? It is, I think, nowhere used in local idiom in the South of England. The a lmost universal word is " shock," as...

COUNTRY LIFE

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- WHERE the ground is not too hopelessly hard, the gleaners, who had rather belatedly discovered very rich pickings, have already been driven off by the ploughs. Some few of...

In My Garden We are advised to grease-band our trees

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against the winter moth. It seems to me that an earlier greasing of some sort is needed against the ants. They will climb in numbers even to the top of a tall pear-tree to...

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Baton and Bat

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Autobiography. By Neville Cardus. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) WHEN C. P. Scott promoted him from the reporters' room to the Manchester Guardian Corridor, Neville Cardus suspected that...

BOOKS OF THE DAY

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Truth About the Press British Newspapers and Their Controllers. By Viscount Camrose. t Cassell. 8s. 6d.) IF he had chosen to lapse into current jargon Lord Camrose might have...

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Revealed Religion, Revelation and Reason. By Emil Brunner, ranslated by Olive Wyon. (S.C.M. Press. 25s.) WHEN the Editor asked me to review this book I said that it must wait...

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Mozart the Symphonist

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The Symphonies of Mozart. By G. de Saint-Foix. Translated by Leslie Orrey. (Dobson. 8s. 6d.) M. DE SAINT - Fones study of Mozart's symphonies is now fifteen years old, but it...

Modern Italy

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Italy. By Elizabeth Wiskemann. " The World Today " Series. (Oxford University Press. 5s.) MISS ELIZABETH WISKEMANN has by this time won a distinguished place for herself as a...

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Growing and Changing

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THIS new volume carries on the great tradition of Gesell's work. It considers the child from five to ten with the same humanity of understanding and objectivity of method as all...

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Fiction

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Lord, I Was Afraid. By Nigel Balchin. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) Silver Nutmeg. By Norah Lofts. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) Mrs. Mike. By Benedict and Nancy Friedman. (Hamish...

Trinity and Ireland

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A History of Trinity College, Dublin, 1892 - 1945. By Kenneth C. Bailey. (The University Press, Trinity College, Dublin. 15s.) IN this book Dr. Bailey, the Registrar of the...

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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By CUSTOS WHEN normally stailkindustrial Ordinary shares, such as Woolworth, fluctuate within extremes of to per cent. in less than a week it is clear enough that the average...

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 440.

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A 0 3 ME M O WURn 11 PUMO MEMO M_M_ML0 0 0 UGMBOMMOMMO MM M M OMOM 10 0 impl num m n n mgmEntiom ti Y M A L A U T CI L7 A 0 U 17 EMOUUDAMR O SOLUTION ON SEPTEMBER...

" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 442 ACROSS

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1. Cold bird in hundreds for tired politicians. (8.) 5. Is the seaman unable to go to the university ? (6.) 9. " Her to Aleppo gone, master of the Tiger " (Shakespeare). (8.)...