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German Elections
The SpectatorLocal elections and Federal elections are different things in Germany as elsewhere, and inferences from the one to the other should be drawn with caution. In between the two...
MR. BUTLER HOLDS FAST
The SpectatorIs I . III ⢠e promised until savings, in which he included savings by ncividuals and firms, as well as by the Government, had been clieved. [he Chancellor has already...
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The Arabs and Bonn
The SpectatorThe States of the Arab League claim that they are still technically at war with Israel, and that therefore any material help given to Israel is an unfriendly act to themselves....
The French Hit Back
The SpectatorFrench Union forces, reacting strongly to their recent reverses in the Thai territory, have seized the initiative to the north-west of Hanoi. Last Sunday, in a large-scale...
The Labour Party Factions
The SpectatorThere is undoubtedly some significance in the fact that in the contest for the deputy-leadership of the Labour Party Mr, Bevan, who was expected to get about fifty votes, got...
The Fight Against Mau Mau
The SpectatorThough there is evidence of the value of the Colonial Secretary's visit to Kenya in restoring some measure of confi- dence among the Europeans and the mass of Africans in the...
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Building Costs
The SpectatorThe third report of the Girdwood Committee shows that the ordinary three-bedroom council house completed in October, 1951, cost £1,690 in allâthat is 075 more than in 1949....
The Habits of Gipsies
The SpectatorThe report on gipsies and other nomads issued by the County of Kent is reasonable and benevolent in toneâin con- tast to the attitude to gipsies when they first appeared in...
AT WESTMINSTER
The SpectatorThe Lords, who had arranged rather a quiet week for them- selves, made good one of the omissions that Mr. Crookshank noted. They debated agriculture on Tuesday. and such...
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U.N.O. IN CRISIS
The SpectatorA MONTH ago, in the week when the Seventh Assembly of the United Nations opened, it was stated here that the occasion might be critical for the future of the Organisation. Since...
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A little paragraph in the Cambridge undergraduate weekly Varsity seems
The Spectatorto me a pity. It runs: A little paragraph in the Cambridge undergraduate weekly Varsity seems to me a pity. It runs: Hard Up? Mr. Herbert Morrison asked for and was paid £2 as...
It is interesting to observe that, according to Hansard, Lord
The SpectatorSamuel, in speaking on the Address, quoted General Eisen- hower as saying in a public speech : "One hundred and seventy-five years ago the Foundling Fathers of the American...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorA NYONE who watched stands being erected in the Mall in the second week of November in preparation for a Coronation in the first week of June might veil conclude that we were a...
InCidentally a warm tribute should be paid to the Duchess
The Spectator)f Kent on her return from her Far Eastern tour. With her foung son she has discharged a delicate, arduous and at times wen dangerous mission with courage, competence and a...
I have been shown a letter (which I understand appears
The Spectatorin another column) from the Countess of Mayo, about whom I asked one or two perplexed questions last week. They are now answered. I was not clear whether the Countess was the...
On Tuesday morning I read in The Times that Central
The SpectatorLon- ⢠don bus workers are demanding a total ban on standing passen- gers on buses. Ten minutes later I watched five buses, with a full quota of standing passengers, sail past...
Those absent bobks in railway carriages and hotels. One correspondent
The Spectatorhad the curiosity to walk through the whole length of a long train and found one book in use. Another, who has had cause to spend some weeks in South coast hotels, and watched...
How many baths a week should a clean citizen take?
The SpectatorEvery- cue, male or female, should have a cold bath every morning; tat, of course, goes without saying. But it is hot water, I am bld, that removes the dirt, so let us confine...
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Alcoholism in France
The SpectatorBy D. R. GIME Paris. M ANY English people seem to believe that the French have discovered a secret of earthly happiness. There are two versions of this mythâone, that the...
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Eddie Marsh
The SpectatorBy JAMES POPE-HENNESSY T HE name of Sir Edward Marsh, whose eightieth birth- day falls within the coming week, is not one to conjure with in the newspapers. It may never "make...
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The Overworked Force
The SpectatorBy Sir CARLETON ALLEN, Q.C. T HE crime wave is not a matter of " panic " or "sensation." It is a hard fact which cannot be explained away by faith, hope and charity. I do not...
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Dr. Chaim Weizmann
The SpectatorBy PROFESSOR NORMAN BENTWICH A PRINCE has fallen in Israel. Dr. Chaim Weizmann was not only the first President of the Republic of Israel, but more than any other man he was...
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The Gospel I Preach: II
The SpectatorBy The Rev. E. W. PRICE EVANS (Baptist, Pontypool) (To whom a Second Prize has been awarded.) "1 7 HAT then shall I do with Jesus, which is called Christ ? "âSt. Matthew, 27,...
Next week's "Spectator" will be a special Christmas Number and
The Spectatorwill contain articles by Sir Henry Bashford, St. John Ervine, Peter Fleming, Tom Hopkinson, Nicholas Monsarrat, Lord Tweedsmuir, Sir Frederick Whyte; a discussion of some...
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Chrysanthemums: In Early Winter
The SpectatorThe tall chrysanthemums Are drooping now, and now The dark is like a toy Eyes have not tired of yet : And must we now forget The summer's thirsty joy And in late autumn how Eyes...
Invocation of Winter
The SpectatorNow heavy hangs this month of autumn, dropping Out of untrammelled fingers her late sheaves. The gilded mask is fallen to the ground. Come, hooded lapidary, bring your steel...
UNDERGRADUATE PAGE
The SpectatorEx-Editorial By PETERUNWIN . (Christ Church, Oxford) T HIS week-end I am face to face with the fact that I am a has-been. To edit Oxford Tory for a term brings two months of...
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MARGINAL COMMENT
The SpectatorBy HAROLD NICOISON I HAVE been reading with respect and bewilderment the correspondence published in The Times newspaper on the subject of Mrs. Dale's diary. My respect is based...
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MUSIC
The SpectatorNorma. By Vincenzo Bellini. (Royal Opera House.) BELLINI'S Norma is only revived, at least outside Italy, for a soprano (almost always an Italian by adoption, if not by birth)...
VIurder Mistaken. By Janet Green. (Ambassadors.)âWild Horses. By Ben Travers.
The Spectator(AlchVych.) VIONICA BARE is an ageing invalid with a nice bit of money tucked may and a hubby called Teddy who is young and attentive. Teddy, earning that Monica is on the...
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The SpectatorTHEATRE 3ead Secret. By Michael Clayton Hutton. (St. James's.) 'ire dialogue is redolent of clichés and the production of a glossy tonality; yet the play has merits which...
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CINEMA
The SpectatorThe Thief. (London Pavilion.)âMade in Heaven. (0 Marble Arch.)---The Lion and the Horse. (Warner.) IN order to give the jaded cinema-goer something new, something different,...
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Whe Spectator, Pobenaber 131h, 1852. AN earthquake was distinctly felt
The Spectatorat different points of the North- western counties before daybreak on Tuesday morning. The weather had been wet and sultry for some days. On both banks of the Mersey, especially...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 144
The SpectatorSet by Joyce Johnson - The usual prizes are offered for a human tale told by a fairy. Limit 200 words prose or fourteen lines verse. Entries must be addressed to the Spectator,...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 141
The SpectatorReport by D. R. Pet* The usual prizes were offered for a testimonial to a product for curing an addiction to Football Pools, Writing to the Press, Gardening, Literary...
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SIR,âThere is urgent need for a more enlightened public opinion
The Spectatoron the problem of the juvenile criminal. Letters of the type written by Mr. A. B. _Morley in the Spectator (November 7th) clearly reveal this need. To suggest physical...
SIR,âThe average citizen finds it hard to understand the great
The Spectatoranxiety of sentimentalists to rank the " reformation ' of the thug higher than the necessity to protect the innocent members of the communityâ almost always the young or the...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorCrime and Punishment SIR,âThe country is now about equally divided into coshables and uncoshables. The coshables are single women, old men and small shop-keepers who live in...
"Attlee and Bevan"
The SpectatorSIR, â One can appreciate the Rev. Mervyn Stockwood's desire to be tolerant by a "purely personal approach" to his subject, but a woolly tolerance that confuses the purely...
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SIR,âWhat particularly interested me in Mr. Stockwood's article was his
The Spectatorpalliation of Mr. Bevan's use of the term "vermin." An offensive or incorrect remark, to be followed up, if circumstances seem to require it, by an apology or a plea that the...
SIR,âI too read the Stockwood articleâmy reaction was not so
The Spectatorserious as Mr. F. H. Butler's. My mental comment, "Another lick-spittle parsonâwhat a pity spittle does not poison spittle-lickers !" I then looked at the cover of the paper...
The Sermon I want SIR,âI congratulate you on securing such
The Spectatoran excellent contribution to the Spectator as the one which appears in the last issue of the Spectator by C. L. Jacques. In my opinion he has hit the nail on the head as to what...
The "English Parliament"
The SpectatorSIR,âYour reviewer, Mr. kin Hamilton, states that "Scottish members of Parliament sit in a House which is legally the English House con- tinuing." (My italics.) Will he be so...
Land in Kenya
The SpectatorSIR,âYour correspondent Mr. Stephen Martin has been misled as to the facts of the division of land in Kenya, which he rightly says should be published in the interests of...
The Essay Today
The SpectatorSta,âOn reading Spectator Harvest, I agree with your reviewer; it demonstrates that the essay is not dead. But one thing strikes me Very forcibly. That the restriction of each...
"The Future of Bevanism"
The SpectatorSIR,âOwing to absence abroad I have only today seen your issue of October 31st. In this, under the heading "The Future of Bevanism," you say that it is difficult to see how a...
A Countess D.D.
The SpectatorSta,âI fully sympathise with Janus's concern that neither notice of my degrees nor of my ordination have appeared in Who's Who. The negligence shown by the Editors of that...
Iconoclasm
The SpectatorSta,âAlthough I signed the letter you kindly printed "Iconoclast," am not an iconoclast where language is concerned, and I beg to protest at being made responsible for the use...
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A Badger Snared When my acquaintance spoke of badgers, I
The Spectatormentioned that I thought they were much more common in our locality than many people realised, and he laughed and said he thoroughly agreed, because he had been robbed of...
The Hedgehog's Sleep It was almost dusk, but as we
The Spectatorswerved to avoid the small round object on the road I saw it was a hedgehog. It was not moving, for it had been slow in getting across, and some earlier traveller had made a...
Barn-Theatre
The SpectatorDuw a Digon was the inscription on the arch of the bell-tower adjoining the granary and leading to the barn. God and enoughâan appropriate inscription, I thought. I crossed...
Fruit Trees
The SpectatorWe are half way through the month that is best for fruit-tree plant- ing. Remember that the morello cherry does well on a north wall, that the hollow often holds frost when the...
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorAT week-ends when we sometimes go to the cottage, which is on the side of a hill covered by fir-trees, we never see a sparrow. Pigeons perch within a few feet of the roof;...
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorThe-Paradox of Baldwin Stanley Baldwin. By G. M. Young. (Rupert Hart-Davis. 21s.) IN a few lines of preface to his life of Stanley Baldwin Mr. G. M. Young states the...
Seeing Browning Plain
The SpectatorRobert Browning: a Portrait. By Betty Miller. (John Murray. 21s.) MRS. MILLER has written an excellent book which will be for many years the standard life of the poet. Equipped...
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Arthur Koestler
The SpectatorThe first volume of his autobiography ARROW IN THE BLUE "The best thing he has written. It is a very great Pleasure to read ' ' -CYRIL CONNOLLY, SUNDAY TIMES "Deserves the...
An American Bible
The SpectatorThe Holy Bible : Revised Standard Version. (Nelson. 30s.) FIFTEEN years ago decision was taken in the United States and Canada to revise the English Revised Version of the Bible...
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Men of the Theatre
The SpectatorNo words can completely recapture a past performance; no illustra- tion supply more than a glimpseâand often a disappointing oneâof what was once a piece of living theatre....
An Aristocracy of a Sort THAT admirably instructive (and entertaining)
The Spectatorbook, The English Middle Classes, with which Mr. Lewis and Mr. Maude made their joint bow to the public three years ago, contained a single pregnant chapter on the professions :...
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Fiction
The SpectatorON the principle that one should set a thief to catch a thief, there might perhaps be more promising candidates for the portrayal of Napoleon Buonaparte than Sir Alan Herbert. A...
TO ENSURE REGULAR RECEIPT OF
The SpectatorTHE SPECTATOR readdrs are urged to place a firm order with their news- agent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as...
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IN 1931 the Women's Institute at Marnhull, Dorset, won first
The Spectatorprize in a County com- petition for the best village history. The leader in the project later added to the material, and a Marnhull book was published in 1940. To celebrate the...
THE early histories of most parts of Central London are
The Spectatoralready as well-recorded as they are documented. It is odd therefore to find that the history of Berkeley Square and its adjoining streets has been neglected. Mr. Johnson has...
The Great Charlie. By Robert Payne. (Andre Deutsch. 16s.) Ma.
The SpectatorCHAPLIN 'S visit to England has dis- lodged an avalanche of books concerning his life and art. Unquestionably Mr. Payne's is the best of the bunch, a worthy tribute to a genius....
Shorter Notices
The SpectatorSergei M. Eisenstein. By Marie Seton. (Bodley Head. 35s.) AFTER the Russian Revolution, Eisenstein started to make films and edit them with the idea that the joined lengths of...
In The Mink. By Anne Scott-James. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.)
The SpectatorIn The Mink. By Anne Scott-James. (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) I Jus - r don't know how much In The Mink would appeal to people who have never had anything to do with the...
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THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 704
The Spectator4 Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct olution opened after noon on Tuesday week, November 25th. addressed Crossword, aiel bearing N...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS APART from a fresh slide in goldmining shares, which are still under the influence of desultory selling and a virtual cessation of buying, markets are beginning to...