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Package Deal
The SpectatorW FIAT the Americans fail to realise, Tan Gilmour points out in his article on Franco's Spain, is that when they accept Franco's argument that they must give him money or there...
Portrait of the Week— THE TORY GOVERNMENT made a couple
The Spectatorof mag- naminous gestures towards the lesser breeds: some of the Lane pictures—all of which had long been claimed as the property of the Republic of Ireland —are to be released,...
ADENAUER'S FRIENDLY CALL
The SpectatorD R. ADENAUElt is coming here to make friends and to gain time. It may be to our advantage to help him to do both. Up to now the whole foreign policy of Federal Germany has been...
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The End of an Old Song
The SpectatorS o Hugh Lane's pictures are at last to be seen where he wished them to be seen : in Dublin. The story of their appropriation by the Tate, and their retention there for nearly...
Government by Euphemism
The SpectatorT Colonial Secretary has announced that he 1 proposes to take a calculated risk by ending the state of emergency in Kenya; and the Welen- skyite Central Alrimn Examiner is now...
Waters of the Nile
The SpectatorA a, the same, the results of the Israeli election strike a mildly encouraging note and so does the news from next door. To reach agreement on the division of the Nile waters it...
NEXT WEEK
The SpectatorChris:mas Number Articles and Reviews by - KINGSLEY Amts, A. J. AYER, JOHN BETJEMAN, D. W. BROGAN, PATRICK CAMPBELL, D. .1. ENRIGHT. Roy JENK INS, JAMES JOLL, PHILIP LARKIN. M...
Again Ben-Gurion
The SpectatorT HE results of the general election in Israel were a little like ours. Mr. Ben-Gurion not only got in yet again, but with an increased share of votes and of scats—to the...
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French and British Resentments
The SpectatorFrom DARS1E G 1LLIE PARIS rr HE irritation and anger in London at French goings-on seem to be yielding to self-question- ing about where and when things went wrong. One...
A Spectator's Notebook
The SpectatorThe Relief of Mafekeng THERE are two men above all with whom I would not like to exchange jobs. The first is the man at the White City grey- hound stadium whose job it is to...
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Christmas is coming
The Spectatorand the heads are getting fat (as Taper once remarked, surveying the House of Commons on a foggy November day). But what are you going to do about it? (Christmas, that is, not...
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The Spectator99 Gower Street, London, WCI. Please send the .Speetakr for a year as my gift to my friends listed below. I enclose I: 1. Name (Please use capital letters throughout)...
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The Economy
The SpectatorEconomically the regime can claim some remarkable achievements. It has carried out some good irrigation and land reclamation projects chiefly in Estremadura, near Badajoz, and...
FRANCO'S SPAIN
The SpectatorBy IAN GILMOUR G ENERALISSIMO FRANCO must be given his due. Having started one civil war, he has pre- vented anyone else starting another. Not of course that anybody has been...
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The Workers
The SpectatorThe position of those excluded from the econo- mic racket, the professional and working classes, less enviable. Architects, stockbrokers and notaries-public are prosperous. The...
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The Army
The SpectatorSpain, it is often said, is a country occupied by its own army. The principal function of the army is indeed not to protect the country from any outside danger, but to protect...
The Church
The SpectatorThe position of the Church is in many ways similar. The bishops, like the generals, are sitting pretty. Not materially; the Spanish Church is not rich in the sense that its...
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The Alternative
The SpectatorGranted that the Franco regime is detestable, what are the chances of getting rid of it and what will succeed it? These questions are closely related since upon how and when the...
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The Communists
The Spectator' In the sense that they dislike and despise the regime, practically everybody in Spain is a mem- ber of the opposition, but this is only a critical opposition. The political...
The Democrats
The SpectatorThe democratic opposition is of its very nature much less monolithic than the Communists, but it has at last formed a united front and constituted a Central Committee. This is...
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The Monarchy
The SpectatorThe Spanish King or Pretender is Don Juan, the son of Alfonso XIII, who abdicated in 1931, though if Franco ever did reconstitute the Spanish monarchy (theoretically Spain is a...
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1936 and Now
The SpectatorFranco's propaganda has led many people, some of whom should know better, to believe that only an authoritarian regime can work in Spain and that any other will lead to another...
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Subsidising Tyranny
The SpectatorFrom 1940 to 1942 the Caudillo openly and loudly proclaimed his desire for a German vic- tory; he then veered into neutrality, which, as an Allied victory became more certain,...
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Ballet
The SpectatorThrough Georgia By CLIVE BARNES As anonymous as befits their Byzantine heri- tage, the Georgians leap and glide on to the depressingly bare platform with animal alertness. The...
Theatre
The SpectatorHome Sweet Home By ALAN BRIEN Aunt Edwina. (Fortune.) EVERY night at the Fortune Theatre there is presented a dramatic monologue written and delivered by William Douglas Home....
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M usic
The SpectatorStravinsky Rex By DAVID CAIRNS THE benefits of Mr. William (;lock's recent appointment as Controller of Music on the BBC have not been slow in showing themselves. Exciting...
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television
The SpectatorMen About the House By PETER FORSTER FINDING myself in agreement with Mr. Aneurin Bevan for the first time in my life, I hope his plea for serious consideration of a televised...
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Cinema
The SpectatorToil and Trouble QU1GLY By ISABEL Libel. (Odeon, Leicester Square.)—South Seas Adven- ture. (London Casino.)— The Best of Everything. (Carlton.) ASQUITH, though he hasn't an...
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The Ultimatum Comdr. Sir Stephen King-Hall, Anthony Gibbs, Brigadier Bernard
The SpectatorFergusson The BBC's Yugoslav Service Andrew Alexander Public Opinion Polls Henry Durant The Off-Whke Highlands T. R. 114 . Creighton A Place in the Sun A. W . Steward X Marks...
PUBLIC OPINION POLLS •
The SpectatorSIR,—Mr. Inglis has been silly again; once more he forces me to say so, rudely and in public. Because, from the outset, he talked nonsense, I offered a private discussion, but...
THE BBC's YUGOSLAV SERVICE is irneresting and even fascinating to
The Spectatorsec that Mr. D. Clarke, once assistant to the head of the BBC Yugoslav service and presumably still in close enough touch to know what goes on there, has not defended the...
Si" -Neither of , the leaflets illustrated with - the
The Spectatorcaption 'Two or the leaflets dropped by the British on Egypt' Was dropped or otherwise distributed in Egypt or anywhere else. They were prepared but not used.—Yours ....
SIR, — Mr. Erskine Childers is obviously getting very near the truth,
The Spectatorbut he has, I think, rather glossed over what, to my mind, is the most interesting feature of this whole . Suez affair—the motive working in the mind of Anthony Eden. I only...
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SIR.—I1 is a pricelessly unacceptable defence against the suggestion of
The Spectatorhypocrisy when John Gordon writes that 'The Rev. Austin Lee is so full of pity for homo- sexuals that he misses the point.' I should suggest the Rev. Lee has got the point, all...
X MARKS THE SPOT
The SpectatorS1R,—Surely Mr. Knox Cunningham is even less com- petent to speak for my leader than I am. It seems somewhat disingenuous of him to try to give the impression that I am...
THE OFF-WHITE HIGHLANDS
The SpectatorSut,—In answer to Mr. F. S. Joelson, it is true both that Mr. Culwick declared that 'a great many of us are prepared to see the principle of Africans farming in the Highlands'...
A PLACE IN THE SUN
The SpectatorSIR,—The two articles on South Africa which appeared in the November 6 issue of your journal are an example of the highly selective interest which is being shown abroad these...
HYPOCRISY?
The SpectatorSIR,—John Gordon, as usual, contrives to be both hard-boiled and half-baked. Of course it is shocking that a boy (or a grown man) should be kept in prison awaiting trial for...
`LOLITA'
The SpectatorSIR,—In John Coleman's article entitled 'Nabokov' Mr. Nabokov is quoted as saying: 'But it [Lolita] was able to be published in America finally, because critics of Trilling's...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorPuzzles and Epiphanies By FRANK KER MODE ELLMANN, the author of two good books on Yeats, has written a superlatively ood biography of Joyce.* It assembles, with a astery Joyce...
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Saints of the Charter •
The SpectatorTHE difficulties of the Chartists remind one at once, as the editor concedes, of the problems of African nationalist parties in our own age. The uncanny instability of Chartism...
Rape of the Waste Lock
The SpectatorAlexander Pope: The Poetry of Allusion. By Reuben Brower. (0.U.P., 35s.) 'IMMATURE poets imitate; mature poets steal.' The dictum, which occurs in one of the earlier essays in...
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Barging in the Ballet
The SpectatorAdmirals. in Collision. By Richard Hough. (Hamish Hamilton, 18s.) ADMIRALS Tryon and Markham came into colli- sion in 1893, just three miles off the Tripoli coast. As a result...
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Changed Days
The Spectator'IT was no accident,' Mr. Vaughan says in his excellent history of the British Medical Associa- tion. 'that the origins of the BMA should belong to the year of the great Reform...
To a Former Life
The SpectatorMa. LEE grew up in a small Cotswold village which remained remarkably self-sufficient, mor- ally and socially, until late in the Twenties; and though the village was soon to...
Put Away
The SpectatorAs the last war ended, Finland, who not unnatur- ally had been fighting against Russia, found her- self an occupied country. Early in 1945 Commun- ist purges began, and the...
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Arnold and Dickens
The Spectatorh ti the Ethical Idealism of Matthew Arnold. By William Robbins. (Heinemann, 25s.) history of the Victorian Age,' said Lytton Strachey, 'will never be written : we know too...
Old Green Hat
The SpectatorThe Charm of Mambas. By George Brendon. (Heinemann, 16s.) 'FIIL Devil's Advocate, or Promoter of the Faith. is Blaise Meredith, an austere English priest. With only a few months...
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CRISIS THE DOLLAR
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE ending of discrimination against the imports of dollar goods followed hard on the an- nouncement by Washington that new loans from their Develop- ment...
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COMPANY NOTES
The SpectatorR HOKANA'S announcement on October 23 of a scrip issue was not altogether un- expected; in fact there had been some intelligent market anticipation of this as the £1 stock units...
INVESTMENT NOTES
The Spectatorqt. By CUSTOS 00 IC' 1 6 1 :0 T im short down-turn in markets would have gone further if the sellers had not suddenly been deterred by the strikingly good half-yearly...
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Roundabout
The SpectatorBy KATHARINE WH1TEHORN The Weekly Sex SOME years ago a woman's weekly printed in its 'Hints from Readers' section a letter saying that people could sweep their own chimneys...
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The Ice–Cream–Man Cometh
The SpectatorT itE show was for Italian men's fashions: and it was held in the heart of Knightsbridge: as brave an act as holding a whist drive in the Kremlin for the Friends of Capitalism....
soLurioN OF CROSSWORD 10b1 ACROSS.--1 Calliope. 5 Scores. 9 Meta-
The Spectatorphor. 10 Hammam. 12 Refusal. 13 Italian. 14 Trunme.-shell. 17 Perfect fifth. 22 Calypso. 23 Hundred , 24 Lionet , 25 Per- golas. 26 Dressy. 27 Assassin. DOWN. .1 Camera. 2 Let...
SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1063
The SpectatorProminently displayed in eighths :locally (7) _ (4-3) 29 By one's luggage? (7) A few words (from the Chair- man ?) about foreign currency (7) 9 Neither mother appears in opera...
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Design
The SpectatorOld Town Planning By KENNETH J. ROBINSON rim trouble with all problems connected with the planning of housing and working areas is that they add up to something so enormous...
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Consuming Interest
The SpectatorBehind the Screens By LESLIE ADRIAN There are three ways of avoiding such risks, as there are in buying a set. You can rent a set i'4ther than buy one, you can take out a tele-...
Wine of the Week
The SpectatorN . IUKL7ANI, Gurdzhaani, and •Tsin- andali constitute, jointly, my wine of the week as curiosities—as the first Soviet wines, to my knowledge, to be imported into Britain. They...