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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorO NLY one complaint figured at all conspicuously in the debate on the Army Estimates on Tuesday—apart from Mr. Stokes's hardy annual on the subject of tanks—that regarding the...
The Civil Aviation Plan
The SpectatorThe moment it became certain that the air policy it had advo- cated at Chicago was unacceptable to America it became incumbent on the British Government to complete a national...
Successes in Burma
The SpectatorIt is in more ways than one that the British forces in Burma have, in Sir James Grigg's phrase, "established ascendancy" ever the Japanese. They have thrown the enemy back from...
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Plans for Television
The SpectatorTelevision was already making rapid strides before the war, and after the ivar this country should be in a favourable position for developing it for our own use and in the...
The Anti-planning Cry
The SpectatorNo sensible person wants controls for the sake of controls, but it is a matter of pretty general agreement that many of the war- time controls will have to be continued for some...
The Women's Land Army
The SpectatorThere has been much disappointment at the Government's decision not to extend war annuities, granted on a reduced scale to members of the Civil Defence Services, to workers of...
Applying the Education Act
The SpectatorIt will take years before all alai is intended in the new Education Act can be fully translated into terms of work and teaching in the schools. New draft regulations issued' by...
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"EXCEPT THEY BE AGREED"
The Spectator1 I T is on the face of it a little disturbing that no more than a month after the conclusion of an Inter-Allied Conference which appeared to have attained a more than ordinary...
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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorIp HE to-ton bomb whose existence is made known this week repre- sents the realisation of a long dream. Some four or five years ago a friend living in a Surrey village rang me...
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ACROSS THE RHINE
The SpectatorBy STRATEGICUS OIR JAMES GRIGG, in the debate on the Army Estimates on Tuesday, administered a timely corrective to the wild specula- tion which has swept some of the Allies off...
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A SOCIAL ACHIEVEMENT
The SpectatorBy ELEANOR F. RATHBONE, M.P. • Oilr little volume fell rather flat, but several women's societies took the matter up, and one by one practically all the larger women's...
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ANGLO-CZECH
The SpectatorBy J. R. GLORNEY BOLTON OIX years ago the Germans entered Prague. They are still in full control of Bohemia and Moravia, as they are of Austria. Each of these regions has been...
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THE PROBLEM OF LAY J.Ps.
The SpectatorBy SIR HENRY SLESSER T HE report of the Conservative sub-committee on legal reform, advising, among other matters, the appointment of a "legally qualified and paid chairman" to...
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NIGH r IN WARTIME CITY-WORKERS who know darkness but not
The SpectatorNight. Sunset-dwellers in these Western isles By Atlantis lost (swallowed by the waves) Out of your bright houses with the blinded window-frames Step carefully, blinking, into...
DAWSON OF PENN
The SpectatorBy SIR HENRY BASHFC■RD I SUPPOSE it would be true to say that, as far as the general public was concerned, and during the period between the last war and this, Dawson of Penn...
WHAT THE SOLDIER THINKS"
The SpectatorIn November, 1944, "The Spectator " published an article from a Captain in the British Liberation Army on the atti- tude of the average soldier—officer or other ranks—on the...
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MARGINAL COMMENT
The SpectatorBy HAROLD NICOLSON and American troops on board in the hope of discovering what effect these programmes had upon the men for whom they had been prepared. I have always felt that...
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THE CINEMA
The Spectator"Moscow Skies." At the Tatler.—" Tonight and Every Night." At the New Gallery.—" Tomorrow the World." At the London Pavilion. I WAS interested to receive some extracts from...
AIR. SHAW remarked once, somewhere, that he always extracted dead
The Spectatorideas with laughing gas, the suggestion being that it was all he could do for us. So many dead ideas are' extractedfrom our heads during a performance of The Simpleton of the...
ART THE major criticism to which Fled Uhlman lays himself
The Spectatoropen that of being a false nail in his approach to still life and the figure, this and an irritating tendency to fiddle around with a small brush charged with black oilpaint....
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SIR,—Are you not for once being over-hasty in your conflettmation
The Spectatorof the French Government's decision not to be an "inviting Power" to the San Francisco Conference? You attribute the French attitude to sensitiveness in the matter of her status...
THE SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR, —I would
The Spectatorsuggest that your Editorial Comment on the Yalta plan for voting-procedure in the Security Council goes a little beyond what the actual -terms of the announcement seem to...
Stit,—In The Spectator of March 9th you refer to Mr.
The SpectatorFoot's plan for coal and state that "to the criticism that the plan provided no adequate safeguards for consumers he simply retorted that the most effective assurance that...
SIR,—If I read the news aright we are to have
The Spectatorno peace-time international security after all except against Germany and other nations outside the Big Five. If one of the Big Five should plan world domination whether by...
COALOWNERS AND 'COAL PLAN
The SpectatorSta,—You were recently good enough to publish a reply from me to certain of your own criticisms of the "Robert Foot Plan for Coal," and following your most recent (March 9th...
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WAR MEMORIALS
The SpectatorSia,—Soon after the Great War, a movement was set on foot in Lancaster to found a War Memorial Village on a site near the L.M.S. Railway Station in this city. It was designed by...
THE GOSABA EXPERIMENT
The SpectatorSia,—Arising out of Mr. Wakinshaw's interesting letter in your issue of March 9th, in introducing his one rupee currency note, Sir Daniel Hamilton had two things in mind. (t) He...
RELATIONS WITH , SPAIN
The SpectatorSta,—Dr. Brandt's revealing article on German activities in Spain and Spanish America is pedlar the best comment upon Mr. Loveday's astonishing and self-contraaictory apologia...
SIR,—May I express my wholehearted agreement with Mr. Loveday's opinion
The Spectatorthat Spaniards should be allowed to choose their own Govern- ment without dictation from abroad, because if this had been done instead of allowing Hitler's and Mussolini's...
"A NEW PLAN FOR INDIA"
The SpectatorSra.,—It is a good omen that Sir Zafrulla Khan's contribution to the discussion of the Indian political problem ins been so widely and so Warmly welcomed. He has the support of...
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WHEN correspondents from Germany wrote about a possible line of
The Spectatordefence among the old fortifications of Cologne I could think only of one inhabitant of those grassy forts and glacis. Not once but many times just after the last war I wandered...
WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON
The SpectatorSta,—I was interested in Mr. Harold Nicolson's Marginal Comment in your issue of March 9th, and his reference to Napoleon. He asserts "it was only men like Lord Whitworth, or...
Sta,—It would be a very good thing it the Conservative
The SpectatorParty could find a new name. Conservative sounds much too embalmed and hermetically sealed against everything new and fresh. Progressive might be suitable, suggesting a steady,...
AN ARCHBISHOP'S SPEECH
The SpectatorSt,—Readers of The Spectator have rubbed their eyes these days. First we get " Janus " little puffs for Franco and Salazar, now a description of Dr. Bernard Griffin's...
CAMP THOUGHTS
The SpectatorSIR,—Private X and his companions discussing Education on their bags of grain were perhaps a little hard on the pedagogues, to whom, though they do not seem to realise it, they...
FREEDOM AND ORDER
The SpectatorSut,—With reference to Viscount Hinchingbrooke's happy metaphor of "the twin pillars of Freedom and Order" (The Spectator, February , znd), may I suggest that Freedom and Order...
THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY
The Spectator4e- Sut,—I do not think Professor duoert Murray need be anxious. Not even if the Party goes down at the polls shalt we change our name. But we shall change the present public...
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BOOKS OF THE DAY
The SpectatorThe End of. Nationalism ? Nationalism and After. By Edward Hallett Carr. (Macmillan. 3s. 6d.) This brief survey of the changing character of nationalism shows Professor Carr's...
Hunting for Flowers
The SpectatorIF one thinks about some of he good books on flowerti' let us say Reginald Farrer's The High Hills or On the Eaves of the World, any gardening book by Jason Hill, any book by a...
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Fin De Siècle
The SpectatorErnest Dowson. By Mark Longaker. (Humphrey Milford. 24s.) IN his Introduction to Dowson's Poetical Works, Mr Desmond Flower makes out an ingenuous case for the eighteen-nineties...
The Innocent Eye
The SpectatorTHE ambiguous or, at any rate, puzzling impression made by Mr. Hodson's title conveys very well the special flavour of the book, as the long sub-title conveys its general...
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Fiction
The SpectatorThe Commodore. By C. S. Forester. (Michael Joseph. 9$. 6d.) IN the days of my childhood, before the last war, days when man's inhumanity to man was not taken complet l ely for...
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"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 314
The SpectatorACROSS 1.." Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell of his country's blood." (Gray.) (9.) 6. Seaside souvenirs, sometimes sweet. (5.) 9. One might expect...
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 312 SOLUTION ON MARCH 30th
The SpectatorThe winner of Crossword Puzzle No. 312 is: B. HAGGIS, ESQ., 48 Hale Lane, London, N.W. 7.
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS As the war in Europe draws to its close City opinion as to the neat'-term probabilities in the stock markets is becoming more divided. While the incorrigible...
Race-Suicide? By G. F. McCleary. (Allen and Unw:n. 6s.) As
The Spectatorhe has demonstrated by his earlier writings, Dr. McCleary is one of the sanest and soundest authorities on what is commonly known as the population question. His new book...