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IAIN HAMILTON: At Spithead ROBERT TOWNELEY: American Atomic Plenty J.
The SpectatorP. W. MALLALIEU : Antigone and Cricket WOLF MANKOWITZ: Wild Animal Farm WITH 51st FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT OSCAR R. HOBSON : Back into Crisis? JOHN HUNSWORTH : Banking on the...
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THE BERLIN RISING
The SpectatorT EN THOUSAND people have rioted in East Berlin. They now go back to their homes, under Russian martial law in front of Russian tanks and machine guns. But they have, for a...
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Cross-Currents in Russia
The SpectatorSome weeks ago, G. M. Orlov, the head of the economic section of the MVD, was attacked in the Party press in customary terms for inefficient performance of his duties in...
President Calling the Tune ?
The SpectatorTo the confusing accompaniment of book-burning, witch- hunting and fire-side chats, President Eisenhower seems at last to be beginning. to call the tune in Washington. The...
The King of Cambodia
The SpectatorWhile Prime Ministers-designate come and go in Paris, a strange tragi-comedy is being played out in Indo-China. That ruritanian figure, Norodom, King of Cambodia, broke a royal...
The Final Touches
The SpectatorAt the time of writing, United Nations and Communist nego- tiators have just met for the first time for a week, to consider the progress that has been made by liaison officers...
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Much Ado
The SpectatorNo man in his senses.would go to the stake for commercial television. If the Government bends before the storm of high-minded protest that has blown up, and abandons its scheme...
AT WESTMINSTER
The SpectatorF OR the second week in succession Parliament did, not start work until Tuesday. Members of the two Houses had been given a whole-holiday on Monday so that they could go to see...
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THE SEEKERS
The SpectatorA T the heart of the Labour Party Executive's policy statement Challenge to Britain is a search for the true dividing line between the public and private sectors of what has...
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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorN Friday night, not for the first time, I watched, against a background of lustre and distinction, Mr. Aneurin Bevan enter the Throne-room in Buckingham Palace wearing a lounge...
At Bay " But why is it called ' commercial
The Spectatortelevision' ?" enquired my friend from Ruritania. "Because,' I said, " it will be controlled by private enterprise and partly used for advertising." " Why then do you not talk...
,Clear Profit Has anybody any idea how much money the
The SpectatorState makes out of shooting? How many millions of pounds do sporting (as distinct from fishing) rates bring in every year? Gun licences at 10s. each and game licences, which...
Boys will be Boys Speaking in the House of Lords
The Spectatoron Tuesday, Lord Wavell suggested that both public schools and grammar schools ought to scrap half their fixtures with similar institu- tions and " arrange to play more games...
Furry Friend my Foot I wrote some weeks ago in
The Spectatordisparaging terms of Nutto, my resident grey squirrel, and since then several readers have asked for more news of her. She still uses my house as a sort of pied d terre, but...
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At Spithead
The SpectatorBy LAIN HAMILTON F ROM early morning until midday on Monday the traffic in Portsmouth Harbour and outside was every bit as thick as that which bumpingly navigates the boating...
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Tubman's Liberia
The SpectatorBy THOMAS HODGKIN CCROM now on your lives will be regulated by protocol," we were told by a junior official of the Liberian State Department on the occasion of the state visit...
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American Atomic Plenty
The SpectatorBy ROBERT TOWNELEY Washington. T HERE is something almost schizophrenic about American policy-making at the moment. On the one hand, President Eisenhower works valiantly...
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India's Chance
The SpectatorBy RAJA HUTHEESINGs T HE future of South East Asia depends upon China and India. All the men and millions poured into this area by Britain, France and the United States cannot...
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Wild Animal Farm
The SpectatorBy WOLF MANKOWITZ W HAT happened was that the lady bought the hamsters for her niece; also a small book telling you how to keep hamsters. The niece left the hamsters but she...
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CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The SpectatorOPERA Britten at Bay Gloriana in the flesh was something of a disappointment musically, though the spectacle designed by John Piper was quite as good as rumoured. The...
CINEMA
The SpectatorTititnic. (Leicester Square)âLe Ragazze di Piazza di Spagna. (Studio One). BRILLIANTLY directed by Jean Negulesco, Titanic, the story of the great liner's first and only trip...
ART
The SpectatorEpstein and Underwood AT the Leicester Galleries, a new series of portrait bronzes by Epstein ; at the Beaux Arts, a comprehensive and partially retro- spective selection of...
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The Stockholm Festival
The SpectatorEARLY in June, while celebrating its seventh centenary, Stockholm inaugurated an annual festival of the arts. In the theatre, usually closed for the short summer, the...
Troilu â s and Cressida. By William Shakespeare. (0.U.D.S.) A STILL summer
The Spectatorevening, a leafy background, and the somnolent twittering of birds would seem a more appropriate setting for a rosy romance than for such a play as Troilus and Cressida, which...
THEATRE
The SpectatorThe Private Life of Helen. By Andre Roussin and Madeleine Gray. (Globe.)âEastward Ho ! By Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston. (Mermaid : Royal Exchange.). I HAVE...
BALLET
The SpectatorBallet Workshop. (Mercury.)âBulbul and his Oriental Ballet. (Scala.) IN Ballet Workshop's last programme of the season, two of the four ballets are by Peter Darrell. Les...
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A Question of Angles
The SpectatorEgyptians once had made an early try, and then a modern master caught the trick : full-face and profile with a single eye. It serves in art. But life will not permit such...
Sporting Aspects
The SpectatorAntigone and Cricket By J. P. W. MALLALIEU I N 1921 I was taken to see the Antigone in Bradfield's Greek Theatre. I knew the play because we had been doing it in the Sixth Form...
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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 172
The SpectatorReport by Alice Fay The usual prizes were offered for a sample day's programme from commercial television stations operated by any of the following: Manchester Guardian, Daily...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION .No. 175
The SpectatorSet by Joyce Johnson Ancientimythology provides an explanation of the origin and nature of the narcissus and sunflower. Readers are asked to invent a legend which explains the...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorThe Way of Michael Scott SIR,âIf I write frankly in criticism of Michael Scott, it is because I believe that he is a man with a capacity to do good in Africa, but that he has...
Commonwealth and Empire
The SpectatorSIR,âHas the phrase "Commonwealth and.Empire" any political or logical reality at the present time ? The use of the two terms implies a perceptible differentiation; but, if...
New Poets
The SpectatorSIR,âThe third volume in the series of anthologies of new poetry which are appearing under the imprint of Messrs. Michael Joseph will shortly be in hand. The title will be New...
Politics in the Bathroom
The SpectatorSIR,âYour correspondent, Mr. Paul Sheridan, presents art interesting variation of the old adage about leading a horse to the water. Apparently you can also lead water to a...
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Day's End Evening along the valley has more blue haze
The Spectatorthan dusk in it. The last bus goes bouncing and swaying down the road, lit up like an exhibition, it seems, for night is a long time in coming. The little owl calls and, in the...
Holmes, Sweet Holmes
The Spectatorsm.,--1 think that " Picklock Holes " made his appearance in the pages of Punch some time in the nineties, or at any rate about the turn of the century.âYours faithfully, J....
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorALTHOUGH I may find it hard to explain why it is so, I have a soft spot for the rowan tree. It is not only because it takes my eye when we are over the hill of summer and on the...
Long-term Work
The SpectatorThere i. a solid satisfaction in having a good heap of compost or manure it the garden when it i d s needed, and there is -even more satisfaction in having bedding and border...
Swarming Bees
The SpectatorAs sure as summer comes and heat rises on the roads and May blossom is out, the bees swarm. I thought about it when we settled the colonies at the end of the path near the...
Horse Oil
The SpectatorWhile walking through the undergrowth in the wood, my foot 'struck against a bottle and the, bottle shattered on a stone, and, although the air was heavy with garlic, I knew the...
1Je pectator, Yalu 18t1), 1853
The SpectatorALLSOPP'S PALE ALE " rules the Court,. the Camp, the Grove," and whether in the club, the pic-nic, the mess-room, or the tented common of Chobharn, is equally acceptable,...
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorNothing Existentialism From Within. By E. L. Allen. (Routledge. 18s.) ALICE met an Existentialist when she went Through the Looking Glass. He was called the White King. Alice...
The Young James.
The SpectatorHenry James : The Untried Years, 1843-1870. By Leon Edel. (Rupert Hart-Davis. 25s.) More than twenty years' study of James's books and uncollected essays, the willing help of...
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Infernal Machine?
The SpectatorThe German General Staff. By Walte'r GOrlitz. Translated by Brian Battershaw. & Carter. 30s.) HERR Goiturz's account of the German General Staff provides a study of its history...
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Out of Darkness
The SpectatorVAN 'GOGH has been treated almost as harshly by posterity as by his contemporaries. The one neglected him ; the other has sentimental- ised him. The man who had such a horror of...
Such is The Soldier
The SpectatorThe Chronicle of Private Henry Metcalfe. Edited by Lieut.-General Sir Francis Tuker. (Cassell. 10s. 6d.) THE vices and the virtues of the ordinary man are displayed in the most...
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⢠Anglican Period Piece
The SpectatorCLAUDE BLAGDEN, the author of these delightful memoirs, was born in 1874 and brought up in a country parsonage in Buckinghamshire. He was sent to Bradfieldâfor which to the...
Fiction
The SpectatorHonour the Shrhie. By Francis Clifford. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) Videhi. By C. L. Holden. (Macmillan. 15s.) Honour the Shrine, which describes an episode of war in Burma, is a first...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS THE recent course of the stock market has been as uninspiring as the weather. Events at Spithead, Nottingham and Ascot have, no doubt, diverted some attention from...
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Back into Crisis?
The SpectatorBy OSCAR R. HOBSON YEAR ago, in contributing the introductory article to the Fiftieth Annual Financial Supplement of the Spectator; I used the heading "Is it Slump?". If I now...
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anking on the Monetary Curb
The Spectatort BY JOHN HUNSWORTI - 1 17 is now just over a year and a half since the monetary weapon was wi thdrawn from the museum where it had lain as a relic of far-off (la ys the r and...
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Banking in the British Commonwealth
The Spectatora y J. 0. N. PERKINS %tics the overseas countries of the British Commonwealth are highly d e pe ndent upon their international trade, the main forces affecting their banking...
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Life Assurance
The SpectatorOpp ⢠⢠ortunthes By J. H. J. DAY, F.C.I.I. IT cannot be said about many commodities that the price paid by the c onsumer today is no higher than that which ruled prior...
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The Growing Importance of Pension Schemes
The SpectatorBy A CORRESPONDENT Th iRTY years ago the number of group pension schemes in force in t his country was comparatively small. Since that time the import- ance and value of pension...
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Investing in Building Societies
The SpectatorBy EDWARD MYATT THREE MILLION people received a welcome addition to their incomes early last year, when there was a general increase in interest rates practically throughout the...
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The Economics of the Labour Party
The SpectatorTHE last Labour government was defeated in the middle of an unsolved economic crisis, and although the connection between the two events was not sufficiently clear to establish...
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THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 735 IA Book Token for one
The Spectatorguinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, June 39th, addressed Crossword, and bearing NUMBER of the puzzle to 99...