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CHINESE LOSS AND GAIN ENERAL VAN FLEET'S spirited pursuit of
The Spectatorthe broken Chinese armies is gradually being slowed down, partly by resistance from their North Korean allies. Fairly large numbers of prisoners have been taken, but they can be...
The Fate of Tibet
The SpectatorThe Tibetan delegation which reached Peking about a month ago to discuss the terms of a settlement took with it the minimum of bargaining-power ; and such details of the...
The Soldiers Against MacArthur
The SpectatorDespite Admiral Sherman's support for the idea of a naval blockade of China, it becomes increasingly difficult to see how the Republican ' Senators can salvage anything from the...
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Tshekedi Khama's Banishment â¢
The SpectatorNeither the decision the Secretary for Commonwealth Rela- tions has reached .regarding the domicile of Tshekedi Khama, till lately the Ruling Chief of the Bamangwato tribe in...
The Italian Indicator The parties who by common consent awed
The Spectatorthat the Italian local government elections, the first batch of which took place in north and central Italy at the week-end, were to be of major national significance must find...
The Health Centre Mirage
The SpectatorWhen the National Health Service Bill was being discussed in the House of Commons the section of it which aroused most interest and approval was that providing for the creation...
Lament for Lorry Drivers The dispute which brought out over
The Spectator13,000 lorry drivers in a strike against the decision of the Road Haulage Executive to expand the system of mobile patrols conforms to a pattern which is becoming monotonous....
Malan v. Malan
The SpectatorThe fact that the South African Prime Minister and the ex- airman who is so successfully organising opposition to the Prime Minister's apartheid policy bear the same surname...
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Nationalisation The Leveller
The SpectatorThe function, normally reserved to death, of making all equal in dust and ashes, has lately been usurped in part by the nationalised industries. But there cannot have been many...
AT WESTMINSTER
The SpectatorT HE House of Commons reassembled on Tuesday after a remarkably quiet recess. A sudden political peace descended with the adjournment at Whitsuntideâwhich was hardly what was...
MAKING ENDS MEET
The SpectatorThe pound today is worth 10s. 2d. as compared with 1939. Some middle-class salaries have risen, some have not. Very many people are living on fixed incomes. How do they manage ?...
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NEW PATTERN FOR OIL
The Spectatorm. R. MORRISON had little fresh light to shed on the Persian situation when he spoke in the House of Commons on Tuesday. He repeated the Government's desire to settle the...
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How little history and less geography most of us know.
The SpectatorI doubt whether 1 per cent. of the readers of this column is familiar with the facts I am privileged to reveal regarding the Principality of Thomond and the Most Honourable...
When talking with a Bishop recently I congratulated him on
The Spectatorthe calibre of his voice. He conceded that it was the sort of voice that was good for such things as hawking fish and other commodities. Actually it is good for more than that,...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorI F the Railway Executive decided to co-opt me into their com- pany, which they show no sign at all of doing, I should submit to them that passenger revenue might be increased...
Men of eightyâI speak with less certainty of womenâare. of
The Spectatorcourse, about in the prime of life nowadays. Here is Lord Samuel, born in 1870, being given a dinner this week in belated honour of his eightieth birthday. Here is Mr. Seebohm...
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The SpectatorBellows' French Dictionary possesses two unique features. It prints French-English and English-French not in two separate sections but on the same page, French in the top half...
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Time and the Negro
The SpectatorWashington W HEN I came down to Washington I did not know how to treat the negroes. 1 was self-conscious. Up north there were few blacks. Once as a student I saw a negro dancing...
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Pleasure and Fun
The SpectatorBy EDWARD HODGKIN UST to get things straight. The Festival of Britain is some- thing which happens all over the place, and is responsible for the pageant in your village and...
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Australia Keeps Right
The SpectatorBy C P. FITZGERALD Canberra. T HE British have always prided themselves on enjoying the flexibility of an unwritten constitution, and have shown some pity, not untinged with...
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Why No Health Centres?
The SpectatorBy SOMERVILLE HASTINGS, F.R.C.S., M.P. W HEN Mr. Aneurin Bevan was piloting his new Health Bill-through Parliament he described health centres as the pivot of the whole scheme....
Sunday School Outing
The Spectatorrills is the end of anticipatory fuss: Wheels ripping, churning slush along the lanes ; Smell of wet woollen permeates the bus, Pewter-and-lead-streaked its windows in the...
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UNDERGRADUATE PAGE
The SpectatorGrand Festival Concert By COLIN SHAW (St. Peter's Hall, Oxford) T HE hall was long and narrow. There was a peculiar smell about it which no amount of disinfectant, heavy and...
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MARGINAL COMMENT
The SpectatorBy HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE been saddened during the last few weeks by the attitude adopted by so many of my compatriots towards the Persians. The Press has, on the whole, been...
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CINEMA
The Spectator"Macbeth." (Cameo-Polytechnic.)ââLaughter in Paradise." (Plan.) MR. ORSON WELLES is the only practising director who obstinately refuses to conform to the commercial pattern...
WITH wit neither private nor piercing, humour not too blunt
The Spectatorand sentiment nowise mawkish, the lightfoot evening speeds away and leaves no nastiness behind. This is the gayest, deftest and most polished revue one has seen for a long time....
44 The Four Men."
The SpectatorIN connection with the Sussex Festival Lord Duncannon has adapted Hilaire Belloc's farrago, The Four Men, with music by David Ponsonby, as a drama for presentation at many...
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The SpectatorTHEATRE / 6 The Love of Four Colonels." By Peter Ustinov. (Wyndham's.) THERE are at least four Mr. Ustinovs, too. The dramatist, the philosopher and the undergraduate all take...
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Traditional Art from the. Colonies. (Imperial Institute.)
The Spectator"AFRICA and Oceania have their Old Masters even as Europe has, and it is to honour them, and the peoples among whom they arose, that this exhibition is presented," says Mr....
MUSIC
The SpectatorAT Covent Garden the last two operas of the Ring and Tristan have been added to the Wagner season ; and June brings Meister- 'singer and the much rarer Parsifal, so that the...
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In the Garden
The SpectatorThe year begins to wear its crown at last. Within a week, under the recent warmth, the whole character of the garden has changed. No reluctance. On the contrary, the eagerness...
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorWHEN the wind turns out of the north-east, where it has Inca for a month, we might be inhabiting another planet. Everything responds to the-kindness of the air, and I go from...
A Thunderstorm
The SpectatorThat storm, during breakfast, cut off our electric supply and washed down the newly-hoed surface of the vegetable garden, offering a minia⢠lure warning of soil erosion. I...
"Tbe 6pettator," lap 3113t. 1851
The Spectator(THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITIONâFourth Notice) We have already had occasion to allude to the works of Messrs. Millais and Huntâworks the principle of which it is essential to...
RECENT RECORDS
The SpectatorORCHESTRAL. Decca issues a new Beethoven No. 7 by the Concertgcbouw Orchestra under Kleiber, only spoiled by the Alle- gretto being taken noticeably too fast and the brass being...
A Festival of Horticulture
The SpectatorI see that market gardeners are to have a produce-show at Olympia on June 27th. I hope it will remind the public that these people con- tribute about £120 million to the wealth...
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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 65
The SpectatorReport by Janus A prize was offered for a (non-scurrilous) analysis of the mental processes which led Janus, to state mendaciously that Charles Wesley died in 1688. All...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 68
The SpectatorSet by Mervyn Hordcr Half-way through this twentieth century, what with one thing and another, there Is room for reasonable doubt about the appro- priateness of the lion as the...
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Interpolated Aitches
The SpectatorSIR,âMr. Michael Gill, the undergraduate of last week, informs your readers that he heard a stage hand in Edinburgh make the following reply when asked what opera was to be...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorUniversity Grants Sia,âMay I draw the attention of your readers to the proposed civil estimates on education and the deleterious effects arising from the suggested decrease...
The Lion with a Bandaged Paw
The SpectatorSta,âI have just seen a copy of the Spectator for March 23rd, and was extraordinarily interested to read Mr. Usborne's explanation of why he had chosen the littewith wa s...
Satisfied
The SpectatorSIR,âIn sending my subscription for my next twelve months' Spectator. I am movedâat rising 70âto write a first, and doubtless last, note to an Editor to say what a joy it...
The British Council in China
The SpectatorSIR,âThe note in the Spectator of ,March 16th on the British Council prompts me to support in a humble way your argument as to the great importance of the work being done...
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Braunton Burrows
The SpectatorSIR,âMT. Harvey's indignation over Braunton Burrows is admirable, but he produces little evidence to support any claim that it is righteous. He does, however, support Janus's...
Company Funeral?
The SpectatorSta,-1 have read the Spectator for fifty years and more and am not constitutionally inclined to criticise it, but in view of the delicacy of the situation in Persia I am a...
Presumption
The SpectatorSIR,âFor many years I have read both the Spectator and Punch, but when your once-great paper presumes to know more about military science and strategy than does General...
44⢠Background to Sweden"
The SpectatorSlatâWill you please allow me to make one or two corrections in the seven lines of verse quoted; by Miss Freda Lingstrom in her review of my Background to Sweden in the...
Slit,âSome years ago, when I was teaching a class of
The Spectatorintelligent Solomon Islanders, I read to them the ninth chapter of the Gospel according to St. John. As I read it they suddenly, simultaneously, burst into laughter. And indeed...
Census Eccentricities
The SpectatorSIR,âII is an interesting commentary on our bureaucratic times that, while -a man has been fined in Scotland for failing to fill up his census form and. Sir Ernest Benn has...
Chaptet of Entertainment
The SpectatorSIR,âWith regard to that strange paragraph inA Spectator's Notebook of May 11th, the " entertainment " value of Proverbs vit is nil, particu- larly when, alas, its striking...
Private Judgement
The SpectatorSut,âJanus has drawn attention to our alternative spellings of judgement and judgment, with his personal preference for the fol - mer. May I suggest that your readers would...
A Wells Film-Script
The SpectatorSIR,âI think Miss Laski,' in her latest review in your paper, has confused the title of The King who was a King with that of The Man Born to be King, thus producing a truly...
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BOOKS AND WRITERS
The SpectatorD ENTON WELCH was an unexpected artist. He was born (at 6 p.m. on March 29th, 1915) to a family irreproachably mercantile and philistine, Shanghai English on the one side,...
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Reviews of the Week
The SpectatorSermons in Stones A Land. By Jaequetta Hawkes. (Cresset Press. 2is.) SERMON is an equivocal term for this remarkable book. For its absorption is entirely with earth, and, if...
Negative and Positive
The SpectatorWisdom, Madness and Folly. By John Custance. (Gullancz. 16s.) MR. JOHN CUSTANCE suffers from manic-depressive insanity. In this book, much of which was written while he was a...
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- The Enigma of Hitler
The SpectatorPROFESSOR FELIX GILBERT may perhaps have congratulated himself that the source of this book consisted of no more than the 800 pages recovered out of the 200,000 pages comprising...
Our Language, Good and Bad
The SpectatorTHIS genially erudite and extremely readable work is not likely to please everyone. It is honest, emphatic and occasionally too magis- terial. Mr. Partridge, that famous and...
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Built for Music
The SpectatorPUBLIC atchitecture of the front rank is now so rare that when an example as notable as the Royal Festival Hall gets built it is worthy of the fullest record. - This 'is here...
THE claims which John Newton makes on our attention are
The Spectatorvaried and curious. As the son of a sea-captain he was taught to worship an eighteenth-century taskmaster God ; but subsequently he was seized by a press-gang and introduced to...
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Fiction
The SpectatorThe Brigand. By Giuseppe Berto. Translated by Angus Davidson. (Seeker and Warburg. 95. 6d.) Christina Claimed. By Giles Romilly. (Putnam. sos. 6d.) POTENTIALLY we are all...
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THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 628
The SpectatorIA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the ton coma solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, June 12th. Envelopes must...
SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No 626
The Spectator1' I D / A I EMrâ¢I SOLUTION ON JUNE 15 The winner of Crossword No. 626 is Miss HILDA M. CHAII.ENOR, 40 Ripon Road, Harrogate, Yorks.
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS THERE is still very little give in markets, not so much because of any insistent pressure to buy, but simply on account of the wide- spread reluctance to sell. I am...