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EUROPE WITHOUT ENGLAND
The SpectatorF OR a birthday party, it has not been very festive; at ten years of age the Council of Europe is still struggling not merely for recog- nition but for survival. In theory its...
- 7 — Portrait of the Week— MR. KHRUSHCHEV rejected the United States
The Spectatorpro- posal for a reduction of nuclear-weapon tests by phases, and seemed to incline rather to the British suggestion of a rationed number of inspections. Mr. Bevan promised that...
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Psychologist's Nightmare
The SpectatorBy our Industrial Correspondent W HAT we have done at our conference,' said a building trade unionist this week, 'is to bring a lot of our inhibitions into the open.' As far as...
Beware of Interlopers By RICHARD H. ROVERE T ERE will, of
The Spectatorcourse, be changes, and im- iortant ones, in American diplomacy now Christian Herter has replaced John Poster Dulles. The administration insists that nothing new in the way of...
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Pipeline Pipedreams
The SpectatorBy MICHAEL ADAMS CAIRO r-r HE first Arab Oil Congress produced no sub- stantial surprises and—largely for that reason —ended on a note of satisfaction strongly tinged with...
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Westminster Commentary
The SpectatorIF there isn't going to be a spring election, how are we going to fill in the time between now and then? Or rather—for I take it that you and I will hardly be at a loss when it...
tije Opectator
The SpectatorMAY 3, 1834 THE French Chamber of Deputies has been occupied during the week in discussing the question relative to the occupation of Algiers. There is a strong repug- nance to...
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THE HOWL OF ANGUISH from the popular papers about Sir
The SpectatorDavid Eccles's remarks in Hanover shows as little sense of proportion as Sir David has of tact. It was foolish of him to hang out our dirty linen in public, abroad; but he made...
THE BIRTHDAY TRIBUTES to Sir Thomas Beecham (eighty last Wednesday)
The Spectatordo right to bring out the richness and diversity of the man, since that is one secret of his greatness as a conductor. But some of the press is offering a poor ha'porth of...
A Spectator's Notebook
The SpectatorIN SAKI'S PORTRAIT GALLERY Of odious aunts there is one whose habit it was, whenever a child was naughty, `to impro- vise something of a festival nature from which the offen-...
EDITH HAITHWAITE was sent to Rampton Mental Hospital before the
The Spectatorwar. For years she worked all day on the sock-making machine (for I Is. a week); and cleaned and swept up the place at night after the patients were in bed. Two years ago the...
`THE PRESS COUNCIL,' Sir Linton Andrews says, 'has rebuked a
The Spectatornumber of papers.' Satan, I under- stand, is similarly in the habit of rebuking sin. So long as the Press Council is composed largely of the nominees of the men whose activities...
THERE ARE VERY FEW writers in journalism today with what
The SpectatorI would call 'style' if the word had not some depressing meanings which cannot be asso- ciated with Strix. He was my immediate pre- decessor in 'A Spectator's Notebook' and,...
Printing Dispute
The SpectatorTHE current dispute between printing trade unions and the Master Printers has led to a limitation of overtime working. Some readers may find that, during thiS dispute, copies of...
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'NO ONE COULD have felt at all happy,' the British
The SpectatorMedical Journal says, at seeing the names of the President and six members of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons advertised in the Spectator in connection with a...
I AM GLAD TO SEE that the Independent Tele- vision
The SpectatorAuthority has appointed a supervisor of TV advertising. It has long been notorious that advertisers can easily infringe or evade the code originally laid down, forthright though...
WHY, I WONDER, SHOULD the Queen be asked to visit
The Spectatoran aircraft carrier which is so out of date that it is shortly going into dock for an overhaul lasting, it is estimated, for four years? And why, come to think of it, bother to...
SHERLOCK STALKS AGAIN. . . .
The SpectatorGunmen burst into a Soho office yesterday evening. coshed a woman and two men, and escaped into the crowded streets with £2,000 in pay packets. One of the raiders was masked. A...
I HAVE ALWAYS DISLIKED the use which the medi- c4
The Spectatorprofession has made of leucotomy, not simply because the idea of altering people's personalities (even, in theory, for the better) by cutting up their brains is repellent; but...
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Strength Out of Weakness By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS T HE argument about
The Spectatorthe morality of the H-bomb a little obscures the question : what is the sense of it? It would be a disaster if the idealism of those who are against the bomb should allow those...
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Nun and the West
The SpectatorBy M. G. IONIDES L ORD BIRDWOOD had finished Nunes life-story* just before the revolution of July 14, 1958. It forms a valuable introduction to what then be- came, inevitably,...
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Poezzing at the Court
The SpectatorBy KENNETH ALLSOP THERE were twenty-one other denNalb names under the big black word JAZZETRY On the pro- gramme at the Royal Court Theatre on Sunday evening, but this was...
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Theatre
The SpectatorSophistication By ALAN BRIEN The Pleasure of His Company. (Haymarket.) — Gilt and Gingerbread. (Duke of York's.)—How Say You? (Aldwych.) — The Dutch Courtesan. (Stratford,...
Roundabout
The SpectatorThe Guernsey was not there alone: her com- panion was a beautiful white heifer from 'the only Chartley White herd in the world'--a cow with the Negative Look, white hide and...
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Design
The SpectatorWoven Pinnacles By KENNETH J. ROBINSON THE American designer Charles Eames recently flew in—as they say—and told us how to make the most of the philosophies of great architects...
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Television
The SpectatorPilate at the Helm By PETER FORSTER Last week, for example, when all the news pro- grammes were scurrying around to get hold of people who knew either Margot Fonteyn or Panama...
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Art
The SpectatorBlack is a Colour By SIMON HODGSON HUYSMANS was always a bore, and Poe was a bore most of the time. Some have thought Odilon Redon a bore also. Sickert, most enthusiastic of...
Cinema
The SpectatorThe Man Under St. Paul's By ISABEL QUIGLY The Doctor's Dilemma. (War- ner.) — Warlock. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) 'Do not try to live for ever. You will not succeed,' seems the only...
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A Doctor's Journal
The SpectatorBoom in Babies By MILES HOWARD in the study of society) were few. Now some are to be found in a paper by Ronald Freedman and his colleagues in the Scientific American for...
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Consuming Interest
The SpectatorSimplified Catering By LESLIE ADRIAN Since food rationing ended there has been a Welcome development in a section of the trade Which takes the form of concentrating on essen-...
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SIR,—As a regular reader of some fifteen years' stand- ing,
The SpectatorI feel I can criticise you, in the words of Taper, for your 'flagrant and increasing political dishonesty' with regard to Africa. I have always taken the Spectator so as to get...
THE LAW OFFICERS
The SpectatorSIR,—In the issue of April 24 Taper drew attention to the anomalous and possibly indefensible position of that 'lawyer with political affiliations,' the Attorney-General. He...
AIR RIGHTS Sta,—In a note on BOAC in 'Portrait of
The Spectatorthe Week' in your issue of April 24, reference is made to our plan to fly from San Francisco 'to Tokyo via Hong Kong.' The intention (in fulfilment of a long-standing...
PALESTINIAN ARABS
The SpectatorSIR, — Mr. Rosenn (April 17) quite rightly corrects the original number of Arab refugees, though his figure of half a million is probably erring the other way. He makes the...
And Now Nyasaland T. R. M. Creighton, Brian Freyburg The
The SpectatorLaw Officers John Lindsay Air Rights F. C. Gillman Palestinian Arabs Erskine B. Childers Sahara Oil Francois Caviglioli Easter Rev. Austin Lee Pour Prendre Congo Strix No Time...
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EASTER .SIR. —Mr. Richards seems to be the disputer over words.
The SpectatorHe makes an arbitrary contrast between 'his- ' .01 rical fact' and 'fervour-bred myth and symbol.' There are no 'historical facts,' there can only be im pressions, mediated...
SAHARA OIL
The SpectatorSIR, — With reference to the Sahara oil, as an Algerian Of French birth allow me to add the following com- ment : The Sahara desert is in Africa, NOT in France and by the time...
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THE NEW TOWNS SIR,—For fifteen months I have lived in
The Spectatorthe New Town of Hemel Hempstead. New Towns arc an important aspect of contemporary life, and presum- ably will increase in number, so it is important that it should be known...
SIR, —4 am convinced, from personal experience, that the people
The Spectatorinterviewed by Mr. Allsop about their reading habits (or lack of them 1) were indeed sadly typical, in spite of the references one sees from time to time about the large numbers...
IVO TIME FOR READING Sta,—The pity with Mr. Allsop's article
The Spectatorlast week, No Time for Reading,' at least as far as those in the publishing world are concerned, is that he asked all the right questions to all the wrong people. We already...
POUR PRENDRE CONGE
The SpectatorSIR,—For some years past I have made weekly con- tributions to the Spectator. You feel, and I agree, that this corvee cannot go on for ever without impos- ing on producer and...
PRESS COUNCIL CASES SIR,—It seems a pity that Pharos did
The Spectatornot explain in some detail what he meant when he told us he found nauseating (a favourite word of his) the 'odour of congratulatory self-exculpation' arising from the Press...
MR. SMYLLIE, SIR
The SpectatorSIR,—In his otherwise admirable feat of prehensilisa- tion, Patrick Campbell makes the serious error of suggesting that the Maestro would ever have been so meticulous as to file...
CALVIN SIR,—The birthplace of Calvin is NOYON (France) and not
The SpectatorNYON (Switzerland). Crossword No. 1,038, April 3, 1959; 16 across (answer on April 17).—Yours faithfully,
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The SpectatorSIR,—As your correspondent, Colin Hands (Spectator, April 10) in his criticism of our article points out, it is certainly true that the present system of support, while giving...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorToynbee's Greece BY HUGH LLOYD-JONES F OR Dr. Toynbee a 'civilisation' is the name of the unit which he likes to isolate from the rest of history, hypostatise by means of an...
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Word of Friends
The SpectatorTo Keep Faith. 13/ Mary Middleton Murry. (Constable, 16s.) TOWARDS the end of his career reviewers used to take a rise out of Middleton Murry. The wit did not quite come off,...
Lag Light GOETHE, Schiller and Thomas Mann—the long isosceles triangle
The Spectatorstretches forward over a cen- tury and a half; in this posthumous volume of essays the only German writer of comparable stature to those two curiously assorted friends has his...
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Little Dali Daydream
The SpectatorThe Case of Salvador Doll. By Fleur Cowles. (Heinemann, 42s.) The Case of Salvador Doll. By Fleur Cowles. (Heinemann, 42s.) THE truth is there is no more a book of 360 pages to...
African Realities
The SpectatorCentral African Witness. By Cyril Dunn. (Gal- 1,' nci. 21s.) Tintoucai all the gathering quarrel between Rhodesia and London, the slang flying over from Africa,has called itself...
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Public Uses
The SpectatorT. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist and Educator. By Cyril Bibby, with Forewords by Sir Julian Huxley and Aldous Huxley. (Watts, 25s.) GETTING through this short but often...
Talent and More
The SpectatorHomage to Mistress Bradstreet. By John Berry- man. (Faber, 18s.) Poems. By Rex Taylor. (Hutchinson, 15s) EVERY one of these books deserves more attention than it will get here,...
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Zola, Gide and Mauriac
The SpectatorThe Art of French Fiction. By Martin Turnell. (Hamish Hamilton, 30s. net.) MR. TURNELL'S new book is a worthy and wel- come successor to his Novel in France. It is also in some...
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First Israelis
The SpectatorIT looks as if the legends concerning modern Israel are going to be as numerous as those about the Davidic Kingdom or as those that surround the Second Hebrew Commonwealth of...
No Time for War
The SpectatorTHE first of these books, modest as it is in tone, is likely to leave you thinking. The misuse of science now makes it necessary to articulate a new and purely practical form of...
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PUBLIC INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Certainly the forward-looking chairman of Associated Electrical Industries, Lord Chandos, would not be against it. He has just warned his shareholders that...
IN VESTMENT NOTES
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS A FTER a tremendous churning over in the volume of trade the 'bulls' seem to be gradually getting the upper hand in the equity share markets, as I thought they would....
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SOLUTION OF CROSSWORD No. 1,040 ACROSS.-1 Grieved. 5 Reel off.
The Spectator9 Nieman. 10 Towel-rail. 11 Afraid. 12 Gain time, 14 Tosca. 15 Endowment. 18 Correa:al°. 20 Nooks. 22 Caroline. 24 Bottle. 26 Subaltern. 27 Bride. 28 Attacks, 29 Tuxedos....
SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,042
The SpectatorACROSS 1 The seaside photographer has to be pretty smart (6) 4 As the ivy on the inn sign might say (8) 10 Glued in? That's gratifying (7) 11 His call might be for soft silk...
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COMPA N Y NOTES
The SpectatorT HE interim statement for the first half of the 1958 trading year of British Insulated and Callenders Cables showed a decline in sales of £5 million. It is therefore a pleasant...