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Rhodesian opportunity
The SpectatorLittle that is certain can be said about the confused and troubled situation in southern Africa. It does seem, however, that the focal point of the next conflict there will be...
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The Week
The SpectatorSouthern Africa dominated the news. The NIPLA came close to final victory in Angola and were recognised as its government first by South Africa and then by France, anticipating...
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Political Commentary
The SpectatorThe biggest British crash of all Patrick Cosg rave Words, Winston Churchill found from the beginning, are amenable things, and can be recognised and understood. But figures, he...
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Notebook
The SpectatorThere are no doubt a hundred reasons for Slapping Mr Peter Walker, but no one has any idea which one motivated Elizabeth Young, Lady Kennet, at a meeting in Carlton House...
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BOOKS WANTED
The SpectatorLIFE OF GEORGE BUTTERWORTH., (Privately printed): THE FIGURE IN THE MIST by Elizabeth Coxhead ; JANE THE TORTOISE by Constance Hogarth ; Dr Ruth Gipps, Allfarthings, Hen - stage...
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Another voice
The SpectatorFunny, not shocking Auberon Waugh Perhaps I should apologise for returning to a subject which was so admirably covered in nearly all its ramifications by The Spectator's own...
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The defeat of Russian dissent
The SpectatorZhores Medvedev For most Western observers the trial of the writers Sinyavsky and Daniel in early 1966 marked the beginning of a new phase of political repression, after the...
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A liberal regime?
The SpectatorRichard West It is rash to quarrel in print with Bernard Levin, especially when he defends political Prisoners, but the article in the Times (January 30) on Yugoslavia was so...
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Marxianity
The SpectatorStuart Reid We shall find our most fertile field of infiltration of Marxism within the field of religion, because religious people are the most gullible and will accept almost...
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The day of the Indictment
The SpectatorAirey Neave What better place could the Allies have chosen for the trial of Goering and other top Nazis than Nuremburg itself? In 1945, Rebecca West described the city as 'The...
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Counter
The Spectatorsquatting James Hughes-Onslow Lately I was surprised to find two representatives of Cluttons—estate agents to the Church Commissioners who, along with the Duke of Westminster,...
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Expressing ahead
The SpectatorDennis Hackett Small, it seems, is inevitable as far as the Daily Express is concerned. The exit of Alastair Burnet, whose departure had been a matter of 'when' rather than...
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Uncultured academics
The SpectatorLowe Bruce Lockhart School appeals are most instructive. They confirm a suspicion which must have entered the minds of many headmasters : the earnings of Old Boys in their...
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Food and freedom
The SpectatorBernard Dixon Whenever water fluoridation hits the headlines—most recently with the publication of last month's Royal College of Physicians report—we hear much about 'mass...
State aviation
The SpectatorSkinflint The Government's decisions on airline routes seems muddle-headed if not of major importance by comparison with the muchtrumpeted aid to industry, but are in fact...
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Healey disposes
The SpectatorNicholas Davenport If the Chancellor wants to fiddle the unemployment returns in a harmless enough way I do not see why anyone should object. It pleases our bosses, Mr Len...
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Miss Kaldor's navy
The SpectatorSir: I see that Miss Kaldor in her review (January 24) of Captain Moore's book, The Soviet Navy Today, is once again about her task of attempting to soothe us with the...
Sir: A. J. Spence, in his letter of January 31
The Spectatorhas failed to grasp the points I made in my review of Captain Moore's book about the Soviet navy. First, I argued that 'facts' about the so-called strategic balance are...
Détente
The SpectatorSir: Margaret Thatcher has retreated into frivolities of dress and verbal slapstick with Roy Mason. It is a welcome withdrawal. Right-wing defence views are not, at the moment,...
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Rail realities
The SpectatorSir: I read Victor Evelyn's article about railways (January 17) with particular interest because of the implied false assumption that roads pay. If roads did not exist I cannot...
Modern languages
The SpectatorSir: Logie Bruce Lockhart (January 24) assumes, when he writes of the decline in modern languages, that this is a bad thing. Your correspondents have agreed with the diagnosis...
Morality of immigration
The SpectatorSir: Immigration has long been a subject which requires its own morality. Indeed, it reverses the principle that morality respects truth, and preaches a substitute morality in...
F. E. Smith
The SpectatorSir: I am writing, with the cooperation of his family, a new biography of F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead. May I beg an inch of your space to request any of your readers who...
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Travels of a housewife
The SpectatorMargaret Drabble The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney edited by Joyce Hemlow (Oxford University Press Volume 5, E17.00, Volume 6 £13.50) How hard it is to make up one's...
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The fall of the West
The SpectatorSimon Raven The Fall of the Roman Empire A Reappraisal Michael Grant (Thomas Nelson £6.95) The Emperor Julian Robert Browning (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £6.95) In 330 AD the...
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Marginalia
The SpectatorPeter Conrad John Constable 1776-1837 John Lloyd Fraser (Hutchinson £6.95) Constable and his world Reg Gadney (Thames and Hudson £3.50) Bicentennials are acts less of...
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Thick end
The SpectatorDuncan Fallowell Streets of Conflict Michael Anthony (Andre Deutsch £2.95) The Elusive Earl Barbara Cartland (Hutchinson £3.50) The Former Miss Merthyr Tydfil Alun Richards...
Two countries
The SpectatorShiva Naipaul Changing Jamaica Adam Kuper (Routledge and Kegan Paul £4.95) For much of its unedifying history Jamaica has been haunted by spectres of one kind or another. The...
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Press gangs
The SpectatorDennis Hackett The Newspaper Game Paul Hoch (Calder and Boyars £2.25) Dr Paul Hoch finds the British and American Press wanting but not quite wanton. He sees it as one of the...
Reprints
The SpectatorIan McEwan Early Writing in Science and Science Fiction H. G. Wells. Edited by Philmus and David Y. Hughes (University of California Press, £8.00) Wells dismissed the bulk of...
Ante-bellum
The SpectatorEdward Neill The Unwritten War. American Writers and the Civil War Daniel Aaron (Oxford £2.95) Who won the American Civil War? The South, obviously. It captured the...
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Knocking on Woody
The SpectatorBenny Green Woody Allen and His Comedy Eric Lax (Elm Tree Books, £3.75) In one of Woody Allen's most notorious stage routines, he tells how he shot a moose, strapped it to his...
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Cutting Chekhov
The SpectatorRonald Hingley How the Soviet authorities have censored the writings of a major Russian author over the decades can be traced in detail, by those with a taste for detective...
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Frederick Ashton has not done anything important for the Royal
The SpectatorBallet for years. All the more reason, everyone has found, to go ecstatically potty over A Month in the Country, a wispy confection of Marguerite and Armand lightly stirred with...
Cinema
The SpectatorPlaster-casts Kenneth Robinson Killer Elite Director: Sam Peckinpah Stars: James Caan, Robert Duvall 'X' Dominion (123 mins). Man Friday Director: Jack Gold Stars: Peter...
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Theatre
The SpectatorShadow of Innsbruck Kenneth Hurren Anatol by Arthur Schn itzler, translated by Frank Marcus (Open Space) Magic Afternoon by Wolfgang Bauer, translated by Herb Greer (Bush...
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Music
The SpectatorA 'Soviet cellist' John Bridcut Gennadi Rozhdestvensky is not by profession a tightrope walker, yet he is the first Soviet conductor to be permitted a longterm overseas...
Television
The SpectatorSmoking in bed Jeffrey Bernard In my capacity as an indiscriminate, oneman, star-struck fan club I have seen babies born in covered wagons during Indian raids, in farmhouses...