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PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES
The SpectatorO NE thing about next year's Presidential election now seems reasonably certain : President Eisenhower will -not be a candidate. Even when he was expected to run, and to win...
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MRS. MACLEAN AND THE PRESS
The Spectator0 UR political columnist kicked over a hornet's nest in the Spertai.a. of September 23 when he ventured his opinion that there was a connection between the long official silence...
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The Professional Author
The SpectatorI T may be pretty well taken for granted that while any article about the position of any body of professional workers will be a grumble, an article about the position of...
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Portrait of the Week
The SpectatorT , HE same week that has seen M. Faure get his majority in the French Natiopal Assembly's debate on his' Moroccan policy has also witnessed widespread rioting by Algerians...
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Political Commentary
The SpectatorBY HENRY FAIRLIE T HREE Labour MPs went to the Conservative Party Conference at Bournemouth—but not, apparently, to the same conference. One of them, Mr. Tom Driberg, writing in...
CABINET INTELLIGENCE
The Spectator' SWEEPING Government changes are to be announced before P arliament meets again on October 25. Sir Anthony Eden has already chosen some members of the new administration. Other...
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EVERYONE who knew her must have heard with deep regret
The Spectatorof the death of Lady Wrench. the wife of Sir Evelyn Wrench, Chairman of the Spectator. She had wide and varied interests, and was herself for many years a director of the...
A FRIEND tells me that, dropping into a West End
The Spectatorpublic house for a sandwich the other evening, he got more than bread and cheese for his money. He found the pub full of large men jingling coppers in their hands and talking...
MOLOTOV'S public appearance on the penitent's stool marks another stage
The Spectatorin a decline which has been obvious for some time. His omission from the delegation which settled things in Peking last year, and from the Belgrade outing, were omens. A...
FOR ALL the other excitements abroad, I cannot understand Why
The Spectatorour newspapers have paid so little attention to last week's Presidential elections in Brazil, in which the central figure Campaigned under the revealing nickname of Little...
A Spectator's Notebook
The SpectatorMR. GAITSKELL said at Margate on Sunday that Mr. Butler has been guilty of 'the biggest act of political deceit since Stanley Baldwin sealed his lips in 1935.' Mr. Gaitskell is...
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The Oxford Martyrs
The SpectatorBY HUtH TREVOR-ROPER T HIS year we celebrate the quatercentenary of the Oxford Martyrs, those three Cambridge bishops who were publicly burnt under Queen Mary in the more...
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Lime or Tonic
The SpectatorBY BRIAN INGLIS T HE essential qualification of a good advertising man used to be innocence : the ability to approach his work without preconceived ideas of what the public...
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`Without a Hearer ?'
The SpectatorBY J. VAUGHAN WILKES R. SIMON PHIPPS asked in a recent article in the Spectator, 'How shall they preach without a hearer?' and spoke of the 'urban masses as yet untouched by the...
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Last. Gasp
The SpectatorBY DAVID WATT (Hertford College, Oxford) B Y the time I was in hospital there was no doubt what had happened, and it was already hard for me to move my hands; yet I lay for a...
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Oxford and Suburban
The SpectatorBY JOHN BETJEMAN ORE damage has been done to Oxford within living memory than at any time in its long history. I have known Oxford since 1915 when I went as a boy to Lynam's. I...
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Strix
The SpectatorCurate's Omelette I HAVE never understood why a man accused of trying to be funny should face so grave a charge. Nobody earns derision or disapproval for trying to be gloomy,...
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SIR,—You have been very generous in the space you have
The Spectatorallowed your critics. But, Sir, if you have no evidence to support the serious allegations made by Mr. Fairlie, suggesting that certain people and newspapers attempted to...
Letters to the Editor
The Spectator`The Establishment' Malcolm Muggeridge, Morley Richards, Hon. David Astor, Randolph S. Churchill, John Gordon, Arthur Mann, Frank Whitmarsh, Colm Brogan Some of my Best Friends...
SIR,—In a footnote you apPended to a letter of Lady
The SpectatorViolet Bonham Carter in your issue of 'October 7, you imply that she had no right to claim me as one of her supporters in condemn- ing the methods adopted by certain journalists...
SIR,—Mr. Fairlie, commenting on my letter in last week's Spectator,
The Spectatorwrites: `Mr. Churchill spends most of his time conducting assaults on the "Establishment." The reason why, in this specific case, he has rallied to the "Establishment's" side...
Snt,—Mr. David Astor is quite wrong when he states that
The Spectatorour interview with Mrs. Melinda Maclean was 'demonstrably false.' Mrs. Maclean spoke" freely to our reporter as she had done on a number of previous occasions. She was aware...
Snt,—At times I have criticised you. May 1 now balance
The Spectatorthat with a word of praise and commendation? When Burgess and Maclean fled the country you were inclined to join that group of high- placed oddities who yapped at those alert...
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SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE SCOTS SIR,—I must confess
The SpectatorI had a mischievous hope that my earlier letter would provoke some violent reactions, but Mr. Doak has exceeded all my expectations. And he has proved me right on two points....
Sta,—Like, probably, many of your readers, I am little concerned
The Spectatorabout the rights and wrongs of the difference of opinion between Mr. Fairlie and Lady Violet. It is, of course, important to the people concerned; but of much more importance...
CHINESE CULTURE SIR,—Ignorant of Chinese, but not absolutely ignorant of
The SpectatorCommunism or even perhaps of China, I write to protest against a serious omission by Mr. Hawkes in his article. 'Chinese Culture' (September 30). The most important event in...
Sra,—It seems to me that allegations of im- pertinent persecution
The Spectatorof Mrs. Melinda Maclean are now rather beside the point. It is surely clear that Mrs. Maclean was not incapable of deceit and if she had a grievance against cer- tain...
Xbe Spectator
The SpectatorOCTOBER 16, 1830 THE PRESS IN GERMANY.—The Germanic Diet is deliberating on new measures for the restric- tion of the press. [It will require deliberation to find any new...
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Art
The SpectatorGERMAINE RICHTER, whose sculpture is on view at the Hanover Gallery, should find a follow- ing in England more readily perhaps than in any other European country, and I want...
ContempOrary Arts
The SpectatorTelevision fit.evisioN, though it hardly seems to realise it, is admirably equipped to teach. I use \ the word in a very simple, instructional sort of w ay, meaning just that...
Cinema
The SpectatorI AM A CAMERA. (Empire.) —IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER. (London Pavilion.) CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD'S stories about Sally Bowles were kaleidoscoped into a play by John van Druten, and...
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American Music
The SpectatorWHAT most English musicians know about American music would scarcely fill this column. Not even a Third Programme planner, hard up for ideas, has ever tried to explore it. But...
Venice Festival
The SpectatorMODERN Italian music was the main theme this year. The inaugural concert, conducted by Sergiu Celibidache, was devoted to Casella, who might be accepted as the father of the...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorThe Clowning Privilege BY JOHN HOLLOWAY T O say that attention naturally kindles when we find Mr. Graves giving the 1954-55 Clark Lectures at Cambridge (they make the main part...
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Did You Have a Good War?
The SpectatorSPECIAL OPERATIONS. Edited by Patrick Howarth. (Routledge, 16s.) THE nineteen contributors to Special Operations were all engaged in cloak-and-dagger work during the last war,...
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Boswell on Tour
The SpectatorBOSWELL ON THE GRAND TOUR. Vol. II. Italy, Corsica and France. 1765-1766. (Heinemann, 25s.) JAMES BOSWELL'S status as a great diarist is firmly secured in this, the latest of...
Green Loaning
The SpectatorTHIS publishing of an autobiography in widely separated volumes has disadvantages. Hares are started in one volume and months or years have to elapse before the reader is...
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0, My America
The SpectatorJOURNEY DOWN A RAINBOW. By J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes. (Heinemann, 18s.) MR. AND MRS. PRIESTLEY have visited the American South-West. At Kansas City they parted...
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Universal Aunt
The SpectatorIN these decades of Perelman puns and Bemelmans whimsy, of the needle instead of the hammer, our grandfathers' humour is usually a source of embarrassment. Even Gilbert we...
New Novels
The SpectatorJUSTIN BAYARD. By Jon Cleary. (Collins, 12s. 6d.) THE TIGRESS ON THE HEARTH. By Margery Sharp. (Collins, 10s. 6d.) 'Ten general impression was sandy. . . . Over the shaven...
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HARDY CYCLAMENS
The SpectatorThe more hardy sort of cyclamens are wonderfully decorative things to plant round trees. The neapolitanutris should be put in in ' autumn and left alone thereafter apart from a...
Country Life
The SpectatorBY IAN NIALL THE lawnmower has been put away and the hedge no longer needs trimming. In a little while we may find ourselves with material for a bonfire, but, if we wait, even...
THE RELUCTANT SCHOLAR
The SpectatorE. was in a reminiscent mood, prompted by the ringing of the school bell. A small boy went past, dragged almost on tiptoe by his tight-lipped mother. 'When I, was a little lad,'...
BIRDS AND BERRIES
The Spectator'We have a somewhat untidy blackberry hedge on one side of our back garden, and blackbirds search the ground below for fallen, ripe berries,' writes Mr. S. Bone, of Wembley...
Chess
The SpectatorBY PHILIDOR No. 19. CONRAD ERLIN BLACK, 10 men. WHITE to play and mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Libby: B-Kt 4, waiting. Peculiarly...
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COMPANY NOTES
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS IN these days the stock markets do nothing by halves and quite a boom has 'developed in Government bonds, which I have been urging investors to buy for some months...
`BEAR' MARKET TALK
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT was unkind of the Stock Exchange to stage a slump in industrial equities on the eve of the Labour Party Conference. It must have caused many delegates...
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Pub-lyric-ity
The SpectatorA prize of LS was offered for an advertisement song for commercial TV on behalf of a firm of atomic fuel producers, space-tour agents, literary competition promoters fashion...
The winners of Crossword No. 854 are: MR. DOUGLAS HAW9ON
The SpectatorThe Mount, • Ritlington, Mahon, Yorks, and Da. W. H. BATMAN. Great Eddy. Keswick , Cumberland,
Competitors are to assume that Burgess and Maclean are setting
The Spectatorthe written exam - ination in the English language to the passing-out class of Soviet spies, destined to go to England, disguised as English, 1 0 , mix with the natives. The...
SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 856
The SpectatorACROSS 1 Was Kim one of these youngsters? (7) 5 Where the rabbit might expect to take a dip (4, 3). 9 Valentine one penny? It's true! (5) 10 They . decide the cost of ocean...