19 JUNE 1982

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Political commentary

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The Falklands Effect Peter Paterson A ter ten unhappy weeks, through five set- piece debates and innumerable carping Question Times, the real Mr Foot once more stood up in the...

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Notebook

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A little rejoicing is now in order, but only a little. We may rejoice that the F alklands war did not end in a bloodbath at P ort Stanley, that the Argentinians did not stage a...

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Another voice

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Reforming the currency Auberon Waugh I seem to be the only person in England who likes the new double florin. I like everything about it — its size, shape, design, even its...

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Falklands: lessons and cost

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Stephen Roskill T he hoisting of the white flags over Port Stanley announced on the evening of 14 J une brought profound relief to all sections o f the British Commonwealth;...

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The weapons that won

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Patrick Desmond `W hat this country needs,' remarked Plehve, the Russian minister of the interior in 1903, 'is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution.' He was...

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America on the sidelines

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Nicholas von Hoffman p ompous in the east, dotty in the west were the American reactions to the news that the fighting had stopped in the n 'citith Atlantic. The New York Times...

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A desert of deficits

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Sam White Paris U nder the Third and Fourth Republics, socialist governments, like all other governments, were so short-lived that they could only manage one devaluation in...

One hundred years ago

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Lord Dalhousie made a very able speech on Monday in favour of the Bill legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister. He said that the Bill avowedly dealt only with a single...

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Prospects for employment

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Alastair Kilmarnock A fter two years and 83 sittings the House of Lords Select Committee on Unemployment has finally given birth to a bumper report, which by HMSO standards...

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From Cartago to Limon

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Patrick Marnham Costa Rica I razu is a live volcano. At dawn, as the light steals down into the crater, the col- ours slowly seep through its uneven surface. There are gashes...

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The Romany Roy

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Roy Kerridge II etain Your Loyalty — Preserve Your ■ Rights'. These proud words are in- scribed on the town cross at Appleby-in- Westmorland. No longer a county town, the...

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The press

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Israeli-bashing Paul Johnson W.4 henever Israel responds to Arab terrorist provocation by large-scale military action, it can usually count on a milted reception from the...

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In the City

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Looking ahead Tony Rudd W hen the Falkland Islands episode began and the task force sailed from Portsmouth the City was not particularly worried about the likely cost of the...

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Sutherland's Churchill

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Sir: Owing to absence abroad I have only recently seen this correspondence (5 and 12 June), Comparatively few of those who commented can have seen the picture except briefly or...

Letters

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Government by force Sir: Christopher Hitchens gives a poignant yet sensitive account of the realities of Israeli occupation for the Arab inhabitants of the West Bank (5 June)....

Adam Fox

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Sir: The implication, in the opening paragraph of Peter Levi's review about Philip Larkin (12 June), that the Professor of Poetry at Oxford during his time was a simple-minded...

Once a Catholic?

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Sir: The views expressed by Mr Waugh con- cerning Archbishop Worlock (22 May) are not those one might expect from a Roman Catholic. Mr Waugh obviously revels in ex- pressing...

Sir: There was one unfortunate unforeseen consequence of the Pope's

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visit: Mr Auberon Waugh is now looking at the Church of England. This is carrying the Ecumenical movement too far. The reason the C of E is nice and cosy at present is that...

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BOOKS

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`Incredible rows . . . a terrible scene' Julian Jebb Luchino Visconti: A Biography Gaia Ser- vadio (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £12.90) rr his is a very rum book, poorly written .1...

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Mr Standfast

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Philippa Toomey John Buchan: A Memoir William Buchan (Buchan &Enright £9.95) The Best Short Stories of John Buchan, Volume II Edited by David Daniell (Michael -Joseph £8.50)...

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Dallas

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Richard West A few years ago, Margaret Thatcher went to visit a school in the East End of London where she was asked, as a scien- tist, to give the children a lesson in...

Next week SUMMER BOOKS

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John Braine on Henry Williamson Peter Quennell on Heinrich Heine Elizabeth Jenkins on the Brontes Angus Wilson reassesses Hugh Mass- ingham's The Harp and the Oak.

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Able was I . . .

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Do uglas Johnson The Escape from Elba: The Fall and Flight of Napoleon 1814-1815 Norman Mackenzie (Oxford £12.50) Napoleon's Great Adversaries: The Arch- duke Charles and the...

Sang froid

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Alastair Best A uthors produce their memoirs for a variety of reasons. To keep the pot boiling, or at any rate the ball rolling; or more often with the intention of making some...

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Hardy again

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A.L. Rowse Thomas Hardy: A Biography M. Millgate (Oxford University Press £15) Thomas Hardy: A Biography M. Millgate (Oxford University Press £15) - Vet another biography of...

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A Devonshire dream

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Kenneth Lindsay The Elmhirsts of Darlington: The Creation of an Utopian Community Michael Young (Routledge & Kegan Paul £15) W hatever the ideals and plans har- boured by...

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Early Chekhov

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Ronald Hingley Chekhov: The Early Stories Chosen and translated by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher (John Murray £9.50) M any of those who most admire Chekhov's work remain...

Burning Sappho

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Miranda Seymour M adame Yourcenar is a remarkab le woman, the first of her sex to be elected to the French Academy, the author of Memoirs of Hadrian, arguably the fines t...

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ARTS

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Crossness and communication Rodney Milnes Armide (Spitalfields Festival) Trop malheureuse Armide! Helas! Que J. ton destin est deplorable.' Owing to the extremely reverberant...

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Theatre

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Public parts Mark Amory Henry IV Parts I and II (Barbican) Our Friends in the North (Pit) A Personal Affair (Globe) B y chance each of these plays conceal s public office and...

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Ronald Duncan

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Rodney Milnes I could never make any connection bet- ween Ronald Duncan as the world saw him, which was perhaps the way he wanted the world to see him, and the Ronald Dun- can I...

Cinema

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Gay news Peter Ackroyd Making Love ('X', selected cinemas) E veryone had heard that this was a 'gay film' and the audience, like a perverse Noah's Ark, trooped in two by two....

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Television

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Sluggish Richard Ingrams T he first I heard of the Argentinian sur- render on Monday was from the lips of soccer manager Laurie McMenemy who was appearing on Grandstand. The...

Low life

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Within limits Jeffrey Bernard The Middlesex Hospital , Mortimer Street, London WI H.M. Prison, Stanford Hill, Sheerness, Kent ear Ken: Isn't it just typical that both .1.1...

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Letter from Argentina

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Battered but unbowed Buenos Aires A ter the euphoria of a hard-fought, emotion-packed war, the agony of defeat was hard to hide. Some gathered in front of Government House and...

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No. 1220: The winners

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Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for a translation of a poem that Leonid Brezhnev might have written in his starrier" eyed youth. To have stars in your eyes is not the...

Chess

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Welcome news Raymond Keene AccorA ccording to a report in The Times, ding wife and son have finally been granted exit visas, and should leave the USSR by 27 June. We can only...

Competition

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No. 1223: Vive la difference! Set by Jaspistos: In this unisex age are ther e any significant differences between me n , and women, barring the biological ones? I f there are,...

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Crossword 562

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A prize of ten pounds will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 5 July. Entries to: Crossword 562, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL. 1 2 13 4 5...

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Books Wanted

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SOMERVILLE & MARTIN ROSS: 'In the Vine Country', 'Beggars on Horseback', 'The Story of the Discontented Little Elephant', 'Notes of the Horn', 'Little Red Riding Hood in Kerry'...