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INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND TITLES .
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SPECTATOR
The SpectatorINDEX FOR JULY-DECEMBER, 1960 INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND TITLES Abercrombie, Sir Patrick, 53 (A) Abortion: 711 (A); the Roman Catholic attitude, 893 (L) Abraham, Hans, 5 (A)...
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Portrait' of the Week— ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON the Western delegates
The Spectatorat Geneva agreed on the new American disarma- ment plan to be presented to the conference. On Sunday evening Mr. David Ormsby-Gore said that suggestions that the conference was...
OUT OF THE DARK 'TINE establishment of the Independent Congo
The Spectatorj_ Republic is the most remarkable action the white man has. taken since he went to Africa. Whether the Republic succeeds—as it just pos- sibly may--or proves the dismal and...
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Alarm Bell
The SpectatorT m: Government's real reason for appointing the Guillebaud Commission was that it felt in no mood, two years ago, to meet the heavy and presumably inflationary bill that a wage...
NEXT WEEK
The SpectatorThe way traffic is strangling our cities has been the subject of much controversy recently : so had has the situation become that even the Daily Mail has had to admit that there...
Dangerous Weapons
The SpectatorT HE only weakness in Commander Stephen King-Hall's pamphlet Common Sense in Defence (K-H Services, 2s. 6d.) is that it assumes common sense in others; and there is very little...
Geneva
The SpectatorI T is hard to feel any sorrow about the fate of the disarmament talks. Up to the time of the Summit many Western delegates argued that they were worth while, even if they did...
Mauritius
The SpectatorT HE Colonial O ffi ce will soon be left with nothing but island dependencies. But it is just in these small isolated communities that imaginative planning can do most good—and...
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Essays in Contempt
The SpectatorBy KENNETH tin treatment of the non-whites and what %.../ we have done for them so far give irrefut- able proof that our Christian faith runs counter to oppression,' said the...
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THE PRISONERS OF ST. HELENA
The SpectatorBy BERNARD LEVIN N December 22, 1956, there appeared in the kjisland of St. Helena (a British Colony) an Extraordinary Issue of the St. Helena Govern- ment Gazette containing...
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Birds of a Feather
The SpectatorBy KENNETH ALLSOP F ROM the neck up both birds are bloody puddings. They have winkled each other's eyes out of their sockets. Their plumes, swag- geringly tumescent fifteen...
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Rubbing the Corners Off B y MARGHANITA LASKI r the world
The Spectatorwas a nicer place to live in, my I first school would have been a fine preparation for it. What it prepared us for was something not unlike William Morris's Nowhere, but with a...
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Waiting for Kramer
The SpectatorBy KENNETH GREGORY T HE best male stroke player in Wimbledon wore. a Quidnuncs cap. He was on the golf course and his touch with a five iron was magical. On the other side of...
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HAROLD PINTER First OLD WOMAN sitting at milk bar 2:
The Spectatortable. Small. 1: Second OLD WOMAN approaches. 2: Tall. She is carrying two bowls of soup, 1: which are covered by two plates, on 2: each of which is a slice of bread. She 1:...
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ROUGH BOYS AND SMOOTH
The SpectatorSIR,—Mrs. Thompson continues to give such a grossly distorted picture of my Jim Starling's Holiday that I really must ask for a little more space in which to try to correct it....
SIR,—Your angry young dramatic critic, Alan Brien, is not sufficiently
The Spectatorsubtle or clever to make the kindly, sympathetic and 'elderly' gentlemen, whom he merges into one character Hugo Puffball, into angry old men. So stupid and so ill-advised an...
Zionism and Anti-Semitism George Lichtheim MacGaitskeIlism Christopher Hoskins So You
The SpectatorWant to be a Press Agent? George Fearon Rough Boys and Smooth E. W. Hildick Catholic Persecution in Spain Philip Farrer Homosexual Prosecutions A. E. G. Wright Undeveloped...
MACGAITSKELLISM
The SpectatorSIR,—The parallels between the leaders of the Con- servative and Labour Parties are striking and disturb- ing. There is the same smugness in the general social life of the...
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. CATHOLIC PERSECUTION IN SPAIN SIR,—Although I do not agree
The Spectatorwith most of the state- ments in the letters appearing in your issue of June 17 under the heading 'Catholic Persecution in Spain,' I shall only confine myself to one point. In...
HOMOSEXUAL PROSECUTIONS
The SpectatorSta,—There seems to be a glut of red herrings at Leigh-on-Sea. Unlike Mr. Archdale, I deplore the persecution both of homosexuals and of prostitutes. But these two categories of...
UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES
The SpectatorSIR,—What is the great problem of our time? Different people Might give different answers to this question, but on any 'short list' there must surely be the problem of balancing...
THE 'SPECTATOR' CROSSWORD
The SpectatorSIR,--In crossword No. 1094 I spent at least half an hour looking in the Poems . and Songs of Robert Burns for the word 'louse' (as seen in a young lady's bonnet at church). I...
MAU MAU SIR,—Your correspondents writing about the Corfield Report are
The Spectatorright to emphasise the grimness of Mau Mau methods and the failures of the administration before the revolt broke out, but the crucial question today is—how far will the Kikuyu....
'AFRICA SOUTH' APPEAL SIR,-1 would like to bring to the
The Spectatorattention of your readers the request Made to me by the London office of the Standard Bank of South Africa to with- draw my own account and that of Africa South Publications...
SIR,--It is no objection whatsoever to a crossword puzzle to
The Spectatorsay that it is a mental anaesthetic. Of course it is a mental anwsthetic and why not? How is life bearable at times without such a thing? It is what I have bought your...
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Opera
The SpectatorTo Italia By DAVID CAIRNS GRANTED the con g enital On paper, Milan appeared to have several ad- vanta g es over London. The native resources of the company are so rich that it...
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Theatre
The SpectatorThe Visitors By ALAN BRIEN before the audience was born. Lynn Fontanne is an ageing millionaire whore whose revengeful ambition is to turn the world into a brothel. Driven...
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Ballet
The SpectatorParty Pieces By CLIVE BARNES Wmt.g I am all in favour of anyone wanting to turn an honest rouble, I cannot help feeling that Unquestionably the expenses of this three- week...
Cinema
The SpectatorUnlikely Lawrence By ISABEL QUIGLY Sons and Lovers. (Carl- ton. ) — The Savage Innocents. (Odeon, Leicester Square.) Five Branded Women. (Plaza.) MY heart sank at the thought...
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SUMMER BOOKS
The SpectatorCounter-Revolution BY FRANK KER MODE W ist: men, no doubt, have long ago accepted the complicated din of modern criticism as one of the nuisances of an epoch of promis- cuous...
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Fly From Vice
The SpectatorThe Diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon. Vols. 1 and II, 1808 - 1824. Edited by Willard Bissell Pope. (O.U.P., L8.) THESE handsome volumes, each some five hundred pages long, are...
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Old Whig
The SpectatorThe Constitution of Liberty. By F. A. Hayek. (Routledge, 45s.) The Constitution of Liberty. By F. A. Hayek. (Routledge, 45s.) PROFESSOR VON HAYEK is one of the intellectual...
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Varieties of Failure
The SpectatorISIR. Imes book is composed of three quite separate essays—on Leon Blum, Walther Rathenau and Marinetti, the Italian Futurist leader; there is also an extremely brief introduc-...
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Other Self
The SpectatorMy inmost creature, Caliban perhaps, Perhaps St. Francis (at least a sort of dunce) Sits, like a Chinese sage listening to A colloquy of summer afternoons, Inscrutable...
Adolescence
The SpectatorAfter the history has been made, • and when Wallace's shaggy head glares on London from a spike, when the exiled general is again gliding into Athens harbour now as embittered...
Unknown Admirers
The SpectatorBY KINGSLEY AMIS An November the Times Literary Supple- Lament supplemented itself in turn with a fat wad of articles on what it called the American imagination. These have now...
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Friends out of Fashion
The SpectatorTHIS is the second volume of correspondence to emerge from the Wells Archive at the University of Illinois. Henry James and H. G. Wells came out two years ago, and future...
Le Petit Prem
The SpectatorA Dangerous Game. By Friedrich Diirrenmatt. (Cape, 10s. 6d.) I DIDN'T read Mrs. Jhabvala's admired Esmond in India, but I enjoyed The Householder so much as to spend an hour or...
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Beautiful Healer
The SpectatorAsklepios. By C. Kerdnyi. (Thames and Hudson, 30s.) . IT has become a commonplace to point out how much Freud contributed to the preoccupation with myth which saturates...
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Berdyaev
The SpectatorRebellious Prophet. By Donald Lowrie. (Gol- lancz, 25s.) THE usual photograph of Berdyaev makes it hard to take him very seriously. He is shown in a large and shapeless black...
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Dame Myra
The SpectatorThe Bitches' Brew. By Myra Buttle. (Watts, 12s. 6d.) IT is no secret that the author of the Myra Buttle satires, of which . this is the third, is no lady but a Cambridge don...
Gnostic Dean
The SpectatorOa! Dean Inge. By Adam Fox. (John Murray, 28s.) 'INGE expresses himself as a gnostic, rather than a Christian,' wrote Bishop Hensley Henson to a correspondent in 1943. 'His use...
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Confessions of an English Opium Smoker
The SpectatorIn some sobriety offer to recall those images: Damsel, dome, and dulcimer, Portentous pageants, alien altars, Foul unimaginable imagined monster, Façades of fanfares, Lord's...
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COMPANY NOTES
The SpectatorM R. SAMUEL GOLDSTEIN, chairman of Ellis and Goldstein, clothing manufacturers, has an excellent report for shareholders for the year ended November 30, 1959; net profit after...
HOT SEASON IN MONEY
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT MORE and more depressing, more and more alarming, be- Now the first firm impression of the Radcliffe Committee, after sifting their massive evidence,...
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INVESTMENT NOTES
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS rr HERE was no panic in the gilt-edged market I after the 6 per cent. Bank rate shock, but there was no eagerness to deal. Those who thought 31. per cent. War Loan...
Roundabout
The Spectator1330 was a Great Year By KATHARINE WHITEHORN IT is a fortunate truth that no matter how mis- erable you are there is always someone else who is even worse off : even if you...
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Parents and Children
The SpectatorClinical Attitudes FURLONG By MONICA TUE medical profession, I dare say rightly, has always regarded mothers with suspicion and con- tempt. They know per- fectly well that we...
Consuming Interest
The SpectatorFamily Holidays By LESLIE ADRIAN A LONDON American who has been here long enough to know what he's talking about said to me the other day that the British seem to think that...
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SOLUTION OF CROSSWORD 1094 ACROSS.-1 Suspect. 5 Matlord. 9 Ochre.
The Spectator10 Confusion II Enrage. 13 Momentum. 14 Assam. 15 Epithesis. 18 Lorgnette. 20 Rathe, 22 Long Toms, 24 Billed, 26 Groundscl. 27 Alone. 28 Pyrrhic. 29 Grendel. DOWN.-1 Stonewall....
Postscript . .
The SpectatorLAST week in the. House of Lords, Lord Arran 'called at- tention to the ■newspapers,' thus initiating the Lords de- bate on the press. Before deploring intrusion, the ex-...
Cynan
The SpectatorAn article in the Spectator of May 27 sug- gested that `Cynan,' the Reverend A. E. Jones, might not be known to most of his countrymen but for his connection with the...