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Soldiers, Statesmen, Atomic Bombs
The SpectatorThe question of who shall order the first atomic bomb to be dropped by the North Atlantic Treaty forces should it ever be deemed proper and necessary for them to drop one is not...
EISENHOWER'S OPPORTUNITY .
The SpectatorLL the great American presidents from George Washington downwards have been violently and intemperately assailed by their political opponents. Such is the price of leadership...
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Dr. Summerskill Abroad
The SpectatorIt is perhaps too much to claim that Dr. Edith Summerskill's party political broadcast last Saturday broke the record for cliches, but there can have been few political speeches...
A Case for Caution
The SpectatorThe question of Cyprus has two distinct aspects which ought, not to be confused: it is a painful quarrel between Britain and Greece, and it is a dispute about the application of...
The Government's announcement of its intention to cxte' l ci s legal aid
The Spectatorto the County Courts was the logical corollary t 0 , 1 , 1 0 proposal, announced in the Queen's Speech, to enlarge ' es County Court jurisdiction. But, important as these chant...
Friendship Through Strength
The SpectatorThere is a lesson in the spectacle of the Russian courtship of Yugoslavia, for it is the result not of Yugoslav weakness, vacillation or appeasement but directly of Yugoslav...
Chinese Provocation
The SpectatorThe case of the imprisoned airmen constituted a Chinese provocation at the very moment that the world was listening, with varying degrees of perception, to a more moderate but...
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Blindness in the West Indies
The SpectatorThe activities of the British Empire Society for the Blind, a voluntary organisation which is concerned with the prevent t,ion and cure of blindness and with furthering the...
Political Commentary
The SpectatorWi kiritits of Parliament are excusably sensitive about the re- &wing of the boundaries of their constituencies. They do not 4 ,V e to share the remarkable ill luck of Mr. Ralph...
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THE RIGHT LINES
The SpectatorW RITING last week ' In Defence of the Unions,' Sir Vincent Tewson was sceptical about the contributions of the economists, journalists, and sociologists to our series on trade...
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View ers ' Ire D espite the BBC ' s warning to viewers that the
The Spectatordish they were b egun o ff ered was strong meat, the play ' (I read) had hardly. t he before protests reached the BBC in such numbers that Le e lines were jammed. They protested...
°Peei ng Up Tibet Tii , h at useful invention, the wheel, has
The Spectatornever caught on in of '" ,!_ t . being virtually unknown throughout the greater part ta 'Bat rugged country. This state of affairs (of whose advan - a i, ges the briefest...
T. E. Lawrence ' Toute la vine en parte,' it
The Spectatorsays on the cover of Lawrence l'Imposteur; for that — although Mr. Richard Aldington writes in his introduction ' Cette biographie porte en sous-titre " La legende et l'homnze"...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorVERY age has produced one or two writers who let the falcons of their fancy prey at the future. But the future, though it moves like the heron slowly and With a doleful air,...
Biting the Hand, that Feeds Them .
The SpectatorMembers of Parliament have a right to criticise the official cocktail parties given by the heads of HM diplomatic missions in foreign countries, as they have a right to...
A Citizen of the Future This is' a true story.
The SpectatorA young school - mistress, in charge of a particularly tough and unruly mixed-class of teen - agers at a secondary school, was sent for in the middle of a lesson by the...
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inconsistent) doctrine was discredited less by the arguments of its
The Spectatoropponents—theologians, political reactionaries, anti- rationalist romantics—than by the failure of the French revolution, which somewhat undermined the prestige of the...
Realism in Politics
The SpectatorBy ISAIAH BERLIN d EALISM ' normally means the correct perception of the characteristics of events or facts or persons without the distortions produced by feelings like hope or...
Yet something always went wrong. Events never took the form
The Spectatorin which the experts had so fervently believed, whic h they had so constantly anticipated. The French RevolutiaP certainly did not produce the results which its maKers seems so...
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Ambiguous Belief I do not wish to deny the importance
The Spectatorof ideas. On the Contrary, unless one is blinded by some over-simple explanation of human affairs, psychological or anthropological or biological, Or economic (or by some...
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Steam, Diesel, or Electric?
The SpectatorBy ROGER LLOYD T HE often heard opinion that in Britain railways are finished and that. their tracks had better be turned into motor roads is not shared by the British Transport...
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A Medical Viewpoint
The SpectatorBy A CORRESPONDENT Q UITE recently, in dealing with,a prisoner charged with a homosexual offence, Lord 4stice Finnemore said that a prison specially founded for this type of...
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B racket-Change-Bracket
The SpectatorBy J. D. SCOTT I N the last Olympic Games only one gold medal was won for Britain by purely human means—a horse having played a part in winning the other one. This solitary...
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Ireland, a work as monumental as title, and the first
The Spectatorto recognise again the merits of the Victorian grand Classic manner. The Professor was hammering away at Georgian and ' Regency ' long before those styles became fashionable....
a very few hundred a year from royalties and anthology
The Spectatorrights. This shows how unpopular poetry has become. Tennyson was able to build himself a country house at Aldworth in Surrey out of the proceeds of poetry and to live like the...
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Compton Mackenzie
The SpectatorT HERE exists a widely spread belief that the lawyers in Parliament never draw attention to any ambiguity in the drafting of a Bill so that when it becomes an Act the...
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Letters to the Editor
The SpectatorWELFARE CHILDREN SIR, I find Miss Glatlys Kendon's outburst somewhat difficult to understand. I am not sure who is the principal object of her attack. At one time it seems to be...
SIR.—Miss Kendon generalises very rashly. It is possible, though often
The Spectatormisleading, to make general statements about the social habits or the mental attitudes of children from various kinds of home; but where their emotional capacities are concerned...
SIR,—I presume that the article ' Children of Welfare' by
The SpectatorGladys Kendon was intended to he taken seriously. I must say I read it with a feeling of dismay that a weekly periodical that is supposed to have as one at least of its...
SIR, -1 read Miss Gladys Kendon's writing with interest. There is
The Spectatormuch truth in what she says and her commetlt is timely. I would, however, remind her that in our country live many youngsters who do not suffer from the protection of the...
or suffering' ? And this presumably of children under eleven
The Spectatorand by a teacher who sees them occasionally. As for their lack of response in spiritual matters, may this not be due to natural reticence with a stranger rather than to...
ever taught, where the quality of teaching is extremely low
The Spectatorand where demands made on the teachers are excessive. Material welfare is good but it is not enough, I have taught in an elementary school and am now a farmer concerned only...
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THE HUMAN SITUATION
The SpectatorS1R,—Mr. Davy may be quite right in suggesting that the secondary effects of atomic warfare are a really new factor, but the subject is so much shrouded in witch- doctors'...
SIR,—May I please ask Dr. Ritchie the following questions ?
The SpectatorSIR,—May I please ask Dr. Ritchie the following questions ? Why can no value be discovered in a situation unless it is seen against a background to which it is related ? Why...
MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION
The SpectatorSIR,—While fully agreeing with Graham Hutton's argument, in your issue of December 3, under the title ' More Skilled Manage- ment,' that in order to near Mr. Butler's target of...
SHALL AND WILL
The SpectatorSIR,—It is good to find Mr. John Betjeman defending the fine old 'buildings of England, but sad to find him among the demolishers of its language. Has he noticed the decline of...
PERPETUA LUX
The SpectatorSIR,—My attention has been drawn to Mr, John Betjeman's paragraph ' Naked and Ashamed ' in your issue of November 26. I entirely agree with hint in his horror of., custard tea...
CLEAN AIR
The SpectatorSig,—'Your correspondent ' Engineer' writes in reply to my article on ' Clean Air' point- ing out how expensive the suggestions that I made may prove to be in practice. I have...
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CINEMA
The SpectatorCarrington V.C. (Warner.)—One Good Turn. (Odeon.)—Phffft. (Leicester Square.) Carrington V.C. is a near-faithful reproduc- tion of the play of that name by Campbell and Dorothy...
THEATRE
The SpectatorNever Get Out. By Giles Cooper. (Arts.) A aouri-up of theatrical odds and ends usually produces rather a job lot of enter- tainments, and this time is no exception. At the Old...
TELEVISION and RADIO MESSRS. Nigel Kneale and Rudolph Cartier, adaptor
The Spectatorand producer respectively of 1984, deserve our congratulations and thanks. Looking over the book again before the Performance on Sunday I was shaking my head in a happily gloomy...
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The SpectatorART Bronzes From Sardinia If you have never been to Sardinia you are unlikely to know much about its ancient bronzes; as a matter of fact, no one does. Which is why it was such...
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Sharp-eared Sheep How acute are the senses of animals and
The Spectatorbirds when compared with our own 1 Crows and pigeons have wonderful sight. Pheasants can see well, but their hearing is quite uncanny. How good the vision of sheep is I have...
Boncmcal is a useful dressing for all trees and shrubs
The Spectatorat this time of year. Old beds should have a lime dressing if they have not been manured, because it promotes decompo- sition of organic matter, breaks down stiff, clay soil and...
Broody Hens
The SpectatorOnce, long ago, when we kept a number of farmyard birds, 'we found that broody hens were a glut on the market. We had far more of them than we wanted. The mixed flock contained...
Country Life
The SpectatorTHE weather is never out of the news and because of the way forecasting is done, mistakes, when they are made, loom large. The impersonal report of the weather man is torn to...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 253 Set by J. M. Cohen
The SpectatorThe usual prize is offered for a translation in sonnet form of this sonnet by Ronsard: Marie, a tons les coups vous me venez reprendre Que le suit trop leger, et me dices...
Cracker Mottoes
The SpectatorA prize of £5 was offered for a motto for a Christmas cracker, in not more than six lines of verse. It was to be light, but need not be so silly as most cracker mottoes. The...
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorShelleyan Aftermath By JOHN WAIN , W HEN a poet dies, he leaves behind him two distinct species of ' remains '. There are his works, serene in a life of their own, impersonal,...
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The Necessary Enemy
The SpectatorWyndham Lewis. By Hugh Kenner. (Methuen. 12s. 6d.) The Demon of Progress In the Arts. By Wyndham Lewis. (Methuen. 12s. 6d.) TWENTY-FOUR years ago (one instinctively clutches the...
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Spadework
The SpectatorDead Towns and Living Men. By Sir Leonard Woolley. (Lutterworth Press. 17s. 6d.) F cavations at Ur. By Sir Leonard Woolley. (Benn. 25s.) THE Warden of New College thought that...
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The SpectatorQuaker History The Story of Quakerism. By Elfrida Vipont. (Bannisdale Press. I 2s, 6d.) THE sense of history has been with the Quakers since the beginning. With a rare sense of...
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New Fiction
The SpectatorEarthly Creatures. By Charles Jackson. (Peter Nevill. II s. 6d.) WHEN he costes to the short story, the author of The Long Weekend proves to be a little self-conscious. In an...
West Indies
The SpectatorHistory of the British West Indies. By Sir Alan Burns. (George Allen and Unwin. 70s.) THE publishers make two claims for this history of the British West Indies: that it covers...
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Shorter Notice
The SpectatorThe journals of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark, United States Army, as they made their )vay up the Missouri, down the Columbia to the Pacific and back to...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT'
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT / I AM all for using monetary weapons for the defence of the national economy but they must be used in a way that becomes a society pledged to provide...
Company Notes
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS THE new Stock Exchange account, for which dealings started on Tuesday, will not end till January 4. It was the signal for a recovery in prices , which was no doubt...
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