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BLANK CARTRIDGE
The SpectatorNTICIPATING the Government's forthcoming state- ment on defence, the Daily Mirror has issued its own White Paper, as the fourth of its worthy `Spotlight' pamphlets. Mr. William...
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TRADITION AND CHANGE
The SpectatorT HE result of the South Norfolk by-election should have a calming influence on Parliament when it reassembles next week. It is now inconceivable that the Govern- ment will risk...
LITTLE SISTER
The SpectatorT HE televising of 1984 produced a lamentable display by the public. People were so mesmerised by Big Brother that it never occurred to them to switch him off. Instead they...
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THE LATTIMORE AFFAIR
The SpectatorThe chief count in the latest indictment for perjury against Professor Lattimore has again been dismissed by Judge Youngdahl. In May, 1953, the same judge, who was appointed by...
.GREEN BRANCH
The SpectatorThe Kenya Government's action in decreeing a general amnesty both for members of Mau Mau and for those loyal Kikuyu guilty of atrocities in their fight against the terronsts is...
to UNO, has expressed confidence that the eleven American airmen
The Spectatorwill be freedi-and Mr. Foster Dulles has been at pains to explain that the invasion of Yi Kiang Shan is anything but a casus belli. There must be some justification for all this...
• COSTA RICA
The SpectatorThe war between Nicaragua-based guerrillas and the demo- cratic Government of Costa Rica has been waged on a tiny scale; but unrest in Central America is a recurrent nightmare...
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Political Commentary
The SpectatorM. BEV,AN is once again turning the tables on the prophets and his critics. When he withdrew from both the Shadow Cabinet and the Na tonal Executive Committee of the Labour...
MODERN MAJOR-GENERAL
The SpectatorMr. Jim Campbell, the general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, has no inhibitions about kicking an opponent who is down. Flushed with victory, he boots out at...
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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorTHE CAPTURE by Chinese Communists of a small, outlying island of the Tachen archipelago revives in my mind a chimeri- cal theory about the possible use of small-scale atomic...
I DID NOT see the protest issued by the British
The SpectatorTravel and Holidays Association against the 'lack of facilities' granted to its registered guides at Windsor Castle, where only the resident guides—a handful of ex-Service...
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The SpectatorKnight. The latter, it wrote, 'derive largely from an attitude fashion#e in Right-wing circles, which. insists that the outward forms of religion shall be respected while it...
I AM GOING abroad for a few weeks, and in
The Spectatorthe next issue of the Spectator these notes will be written by the enigmatic and redoubtable Picador.' This, I am happy' to say, will be a permanent arrangement,' though Strix...
WHEN THE CURTAIN of security behind which American plans in
The Spectatorthe Antarctic are concealed is lifted, an intriguing situation may be disclosed. The Americans, I understand, intend to establish, and to keep open for one year, a...
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Eight Bob
The SpectatorBy GEORGE GALE FTER all the fuss and shouting, a Court of Inquiry and Cabinet meetings during the holidays, late-night drama at the Ministry of Labour and Sir Walter Monckton...
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Prudery and Philology
The SpectatorBy C. S. LEWIS W E have had a good deal of discussion lately about what is called obscenity in literature, and this dis- cussion has (very naturally) dealt with it chiefly from...
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Notes from Israel-11
The SpectatorThe Loaves and Fishes By JOHN STRACHEY A S one conies down the road froth the north, the Sea of Galilee glints in the heat. By the side of the road there is a half-built church...
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A Municipal Empire
The SpectatorBy MARTIN BOND W HILE much has been heard in the last ten years of promises and achievements in 'the construction of local authority houses, surprisingly little reference has...
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Sidelight
The Spectatorexcuse to suggest that we should both sit down instead of standing about until lunch was served. 'Oh, I don't want to sit down,' he declared. 'No, but I do,' I replied. 'And...
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Country Life kT By IAN NIALL I 0 ,4 OKING over the
The Spectatorlist of birds put outside the law in the simplification of the Protection of Birds Act, 1954, which came into force at the beginning of December, I was pleased to find, when all...
Cold Comfort We have all vastly different ideas of what
The Spectatorenjoyment and physical pleasure are. Yesterday, on the way 'over the tops.' as the moorland plain is called, I encountered two sportsmen with guns under their arms and hands...
By JOHN BETJEMAN T HE decision of the Paddington Borough Council
The Spectatorto ignore the protests of the people it represents is nothing new in local politics. But its further decision to disregard the advice it sought from the Royal Fine Art...
Gibbets and Lunch Baskets Architecturally it is the London equivalent
The Spectatorof Brighton, the best-lit borough in the country, where the Corporation has taken care to produce main-road lighting which in day- time is not an offence to the eye. Paddington,...
Colcutt's Tower always seemed to me, along with. St. Paul's
The Spectatorand the Houses of Parliament, one of the three great additions to the London skyline.
Sorry, No Centipedes I went into an enterprising London pet
The Spectatorshop last week where they sell baby crocodiles. But this is not the season for buying crocodiles. They become available in April and May, as do snakes. So I asked instead for a...
Preparing for Cuttings Chrysanthemums from Which cuttings arc to be
The Spectatortaken should by now have been cut back to within a few inches of the ground. The cuttings are taken just below soil level, trimmed to a point below a node and treated with...
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Stn,—Your article last week entitled 'Homo- sexuality' . (significantly anonymous)
The Spectatorwas an open incitement to crime and as such should be repudiated by you unequivocably. You must know that most of your readers believe that sodomy is not only an offence...
HOMOSEXUALITY
The SpectatorStit,—It is a long time since Tread in the Press a notice which is so shocking, and indeed dis- gusting, as the article in your current issue headed 'A Biological Homosexual's...
SIR,—May I be allowed to reply to two letters which
The Spectatorappeared in your issue of January 7 under the heading 'Enosis'? In the one, Mr. Harold Soref says that the Cypriot Greeks in Cyprus and in London are indifferent to enosis; in...
Letters to the Editor Enosis Lena M. Jeger, M.P., Zenon
The SpectatorRossides Homosexuality W. J., A. N. B. Birch C. Paxman Tiptaft Film Censorship Michael Croft, James Logan Unconditional Surrender J. P. Bardsley South African Schpols E. Harris...
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SIR,—The comments by Mr. Ben Artz on the censoring of
The SpectatorSpare the Rod were interesting but irrelevant. I agree with him, and am in no need of his instruction on the point that 'some of the world's finest films have been made on a...
SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS SIR;—Frorn. Many sources we learn that it
The Spectatorhas been reported in Britain that Adams.Collegc, one of the foremost boarding schools for Africans in the Union of South Africa, has been closed by the Government. We hope you...
SIR,—At your invitation, I filled in your ques- tionnaire last
The Spectatoryear and was happy to be able to tell you that I liked more features in the Spectator than I disliked. Taken as a whole, I have enjoyed your paper for a good number of years....
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER SIR,—After your very fair review of the strike
The Spectatorsituation in the previous week's Spectator was very disappointed by your leading article in this week's issue. Surely the crux of the case lay in the Court's finding that :...
it is trne. is shown as a bully, but in
The Spectatorsuch a way that it is impossible not to feel sympathy towards him, and the others are shown as ordinary human beings desperately struggling to make the best of a had job. When...
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THEATRE
The SpectatorThe Rules of the Game. By Luigi Pirandello. (Arts.) WHAT is the most destructive thing in the world? I take, it that Pirandello's answer to this leading question might have...
Contemporary Arts
The SpectatorART THREE weeks ago I wrote that 'it is our curious system to assist promise to germinate, while failing to assist it to flower.' Two current Lon- don exhibitions may seem to...
BALLET
The SpectatorTHREE new ballets within a fortnight suggests a liveliness and invention not commonly found in English ballet circles; the double bill of Ashton works at Covent Garden early...
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The first subject was Ludwig Koch's record- ings of the
The Spectatornoises of animals. Miss Bruce Lockhart told us that her two lull-terriers had listened to the programme with her and had looked at the radio 'with detached intellectual...
CINEMA
The SpectatorWoman's World. (Carlton.)—Simba. (Leices- ter Squarc.)—Welcome, Mr. Marshall, (Curzon.) As an Englishwoman it is impossible not to look with envy on American women who, it...
Ely 6pettator
The SpectatorTHE Old Bailey Sessions closed on Wednesday. Sixteen persons have been sentenced to trans- portation for life; fourteen to transportation for fourteen years; sixty-four to...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorThe Heresy of Democracy By T. E. UTLEY D EMOCRACY is out. The symptoms of this have been multiplying for a long time : Mr. Oakeshott generating scepticism from his Chair while...
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Social Harmony
The SpectatorThe Augustan World. Life and Letters in Eighteenth - Century England. By A. R. Humphreys. (Methuen, lbs.) MR. HumPiiRr.vs's Augustan world picture is benevolent and largely...
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An Economist's Testimony
The SpectatorThe Inter-War Years and Other Papers. A selection from the writings of Hubert Douglas Henderson, edited by Henry Clay. (Clarendon Press, 42s.) AN appetite for the economic...
Poems for Children
The SpectatorAll Day Long. Edited by Pamela Whitlock. (Oxford l , 21s.) PART-AUTHOR of several wisely read novels for children, Miss Whitlock should be well qualified to .choose poetry for...
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New Novels A
The SpectatorWe Are Utopia. By Stefan Andres. (Gollancz, 7s. 6d.) Good Morning, Miss Dove. By Frances Gray Patton. (Gollancz, • 10s. 6d.) HERR ANDRES'S short novel We Are Utopia is the...
Grove Renewed
The SpectatorGrove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Fifth Edition, edited by Eric Blom. (Macmillan, £36.) STATISTICS first-9 volumes; 8,516 pages of roughly 1,000 words per page; 75...
Spectator Competition for Schools
The SpectatorThree prizes of eight guineas each are offered to boys and girls at school in the United Kingdom or Eire for (a) a story 4 of not more than 1,500 words, lb) an essay of not...
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SHORTER NOTICES
The SpectatorEcolsiomic history has not yet received the attention it deserves. Those who wish to have an introduction to the subject, and students who wish to find how far the research of...
An Illustrated History of English Literature. Volume Two: Ben Jonson
The Spectatorto Samuel Johnson. By A. C. Ward. (Longmans, Green and Co., 25s.) THE best feature of this book is undoubtedly the contribution of Miss Elizabeth Williams, who has selected and...
Primitive India. Translated from the French of V. de Golish
The Spectatorby Nadine Peppard. (Harrap, 30s.) No disrespect is intended to the authors. of this hook in describing their anthropology as amateur. They admit themselves that they embarked...
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SPECTATOR, JANUARY 21, 1955
The SpectatorFINANCE AND INVESTMENT By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Tuts is the season for the bank chairmen's annual homilies and we look for the usual evidext of sound economic or classical...
Company Notes
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS , THE Stock Exchange account ended on ruesday with a good deal of irregularity. fhis was due to profit-taking which was no doubt 'prompted, as far as 'investment'...
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The SpectatorThe winners Of Spectator Crossword No. R16 Lire as follows: First prize Chambers's Twentieth Century, Dictionary, New Version, is recommended A copy of the De Luxe edition of...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 258 Set by R. Kennard Davis In
The Spectatorthis issue begins a series of extracts from ;he Spectator of 125 years ago : but even more interesting would be extracts from 125 years hence. A prize of £5 is offered for a...
State of the Unton
The SpectatorThe usual prize was offered for an extract from a speech on the lines of the 4merican 'State of the. Union' message by the head of one of the following : Ruritania, Lilliput,...