22 JUNE 1962

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EUROPE AN THE'DETERRENT The Fabian Tradition David Mar quand The Invulnerable President Murray Kernpton Murder in Munich Sarah Gainham • The Despot's Heel • Marcus Cunliffe...

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No. 6991 Established FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1828 1962

—Portrait of the Week— LABOUR HELD WEST LOTHIAN, and the

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Conserva- tive, the Liberal and the Communist candidates all lost their deposits. The Conservative Party came in for some punishment in Canada, too, losing the overall majority...

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UN and Southern Rhodesia

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T liE decision of the UN General Assembly to debate the present situation in Southern Rho- desia and the subsequent (delayed) discussion on that subject will probably have less...

Canadian Elections

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S o Mr. Diefenbaker will be in London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in September after all. Though this is not really surprising, it is disappointing. The...

Truce in Algeria

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T IK agreement between the FLN and the OAS in Algeria means the acceptance of the inevit- able by the European settlers. There seems no doubt that the elements still urging or...

A Strangled Cry

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T IUNGS are now reaching the point at which the best hope for the opponents of the Common Market may be to keep their mouths shut. Heaven knows how much damage has been done to...

Blunt Hatchets

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T HE Labour Party has gloved its hatchet, but neither quickly enough nor carefully enough to prevent a sorry mess from becoming a farce. The campaigning against fellow...

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The Invulnerable President

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From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK A D just how long can the Kennedys go on free from the smallest application of the old rule that golden lads and girls all must, as...

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India's New Parliament

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From CHANCHAL SARKAR NEW DELHI T itE new Indian Lower House, at work since April, is still groping for character. No clear alliances or balance of forces are visible, nor have...

GOING ON HOLIDAY?

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Spectator's Notebook

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NEW YORK CITY AT THE CONSIDERABLE RISK of having the Empire MILLoyalists after my blood (as well as the uni- lateralists, moral rearmers, lunatic leftists, Tory diehards, and a...

All Over Again A week later I was in the

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White House when a motorcade wailed up with the President and some of the damned Jeffersonians who had accom- panied him that day to and from New Haven. There, through the...

Viva, Viva On the Sunday before last, having an hour

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or two of liberty, we took in a fine free show: the Puerto Rican parade up Fifth Avenue from 42nd Street to somewhere in the 80s. Hispanic policemen, firemen, businessmen,...

Odd - Jobber Elevator operators (fewer now as automatic installations increasingly take

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over) are uivally as taciturn as cabbies are full of gas. But there are exceptions; and my wife came on a happy one. 'It sure is good to see a German face and hear a German...

And Take Long Views At home those of us who

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talk about the Euro- pean Economic Community and Britain's coming place in it keep our ears as close as we can to the grinding mill of the Brussels negotiations. We are for the...

The Bigger, the Smaller The celebrated village atmosphere of New

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York neighbourhoods is weakening as the small shops go and the older buildings are knocked down to make room for bigger and better office arid apartment blocks. But it still...

Those Damned Jeffersonians Wall Street is a fine place for

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bringing a man down to earth. A few clays ago an earnest ac- quaintance in Greenwich Village was informing me that beyond any shadow of doubt the plunge in the stock market had...

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The Fabian Tradition

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By DAVID MARQUAND The Fabian Society, amid the jeers of the catastrophists, turned its back on the barricades and made up its mind to turn heroic defeat into prosaic success. ....

And Filially

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Evening is laying a haze over Long Island; the great jets are queueing up to blast their black kerosene exhausts down 'the long run- way towards the bay; in two or three hours I...

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Dr. Hallstein's Europe

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B y RICHARD BAILEY W HAT sort of Europe do the Europeans want? In the long run this is likely to prove a much more important question than President de Gaulle's much-publicised...

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Murder in Munich

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By SARAH GAINHAM E VERY newspaper-reader in Germany—and that has been everybody who can read in the last six weeks—has grabbed for the papers in the morning as if they were...

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Coventry Cathedral Nevill Francis,

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Malcolm Hifi, L. C. M. Lockhart, Susanne Hughes, J. D. Johns The Monarchy A lun Davies, P. Davis Traveller's Hardship D. C. B. Swinden Plans for Cambridge Reuben Heller Writing...

SIR,— Mr. Redfern says that 'Coventry could not be provided

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with an old cathedral.' This is not so. With- out voicing an opinion of the desirability of the suggestion, about which I am not in a position to judge, I well remember that at...

SIR,—Mr. James H.osking. in his letter about Coven- try Cathedral,

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leaves me at a complete loss to see how he could possibly draw the conclusions he did, when he writes in his letter: 'It [Coventry Cathedral] is undoubtedly a great exhibition...

THE MONARCHY

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SIR, — If the rest of your recent correspondent's 'opinion on the subject of the monarchy, British Commonwealth, etc., are as ill-founded as the observation of the British...

SIR,—Although 1 agree with much of what has been said

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both for and against the new Cathedral at Coventry, I would like to point out one or two things which must not be forgotten. Firstly, one single achievement will never ever...

SIR,—Please let me underline everything R. B. Salt and John

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Redfern write of Coventry Cathedral in last week's Spectator. I visited the Cathedral in company with a grand- daughter aged seventeen and her mother: three generations, each...

SIR,—The writings of Mr. David Marquand and Mr. Harold Montani

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are typical examples of the 'woolly' thinking indulged in by many so-called intellectuals when they consider monarchy. They completely fail to comprehend it, but are unwilling...

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PLAYING IT DIRTY

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SIR,—When passing through Athens airport in 1956 I was handed a leaflet listing alleged British atrocities committed in Cyprus: among them was the story of a young Cypriot girl...

WRITING

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Sm,—I read with interest the review of my book•on Writing by Hugh Gordon Porteus June 8), and am grateful for his constructive suggestions. But I am rather puzzled by some 'of...

THE CAMERONIANS

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SIR,—Qucequeg was, of course, right when he said ('Spectator's Notebook,' June 15) that the recent incidents in Germany did not reflect credit on the British Army. Does he, I...

SIT7fING DOWN IN MOSCOW

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SIR,—The World Congress for General Disarmament and Peace, about which Mr. Cadogan writes in your issue of June 8, has attracted support from all over the world, as no other...

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SIR,—Every year thousands of people come to Britain and face up to the special discomforts of a rail trans- port system with the Beeching death-wish now fully built-in. Familiar...

PUBLIC OPINION POLLS • Si,—Macbeth said the last necessary word

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on public opinion polls: And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense. P. 3. BOLTON 01(1 Prestwick, St. Hubert's, Gerrard's. Cross, Bucks

TRAVELLER'S HARDSHIP

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SIR,—Recently I travelled from London to Gibraltar. I had to go BEA as they have a virtual monopoly. The flight was due to leave at 5.20 a.m.—tourist (there was no first...

PLANS FOR CAMBRIDGE

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SIR,—In Mr. Barton's article, 'Plans for Cambridge,' he refers to 'Messrs. Cotton and Clore's purchase of Heifer's bookshop in Petty Cury.' May I be allowed to correct the...

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Festivals

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All Sons of Kings By RONALD BR YDEN ORTY-FOOT Gentlemen Only,' said the sign r behind the bath-huts on the promontory, staring north to the port named for Leary, High King who...

Theatre

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Strictly for the Bees By BAMBER GASCOIGNE Period of Adjustment. (Royal Court.) — War and Peace. (Old Vic.) The theme of the Tennessee Williams comedy is the marital turmoil of...

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Cinema

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Family Brick By ISABEL QU1GLY Bon Voyage. (Studio One.) —Jessica. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) WEEKS of spate alternate with weeks of drought. This, in the cinema, is a week of...

Television

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Holy Postcards By CLIFFORD HANLEY formalised affair. On television, it is reduced to a picture postcard of a formalised affair. It seems more hopeful to sit a parson in front...

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Cricket

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Bronze Age Heroes By GUY G1SBOURNE T HE 'Old England X1' on show at Lord's last Saturday was not quite what I would have meant by the term. My heroic age of cricket was the...

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BOOKS

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The Despot's Heel By MARCUS CUNL1FFE F OR a good few years Edmund Wilson has been occupying himself with the literature of the American Civil War. He has been joined in this...

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Ormuz and Ind

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The Persian Gulf in the Twentieth Century. By John Marlowe. (Cresset, 30s.) 1 HAVE long considered John Marlowe our best writer on Middle Eastern politics, unsurpassed in...

High Noon

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Tuts expanded version of the Ford Lectures de- livered in Oxford in 1960 is one of the most interesting books on nineteenth-century English history to have appeared for many...

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Sunken Galleon

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Vasa, the King's Ship. By Commander Bengt Ohrelius. Translated by Maurice Michael. (Cassell, 18s.) BETWEEN three and four in the afternoon of August 10, 1628, the man-o'-war...

Duke Charming

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The King of Hearts. By Dorothy H. Somerville. (Allen and Unwin, 40s.) CHARLES TALBOT, the first Duke of Shrewsbury, possessed some of his mother's charm but, for- tunately, more...

Beastly to the Romans

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The Revolutions of Ancient Rome. By F. R. Cowell. (Thames and Hudson, 21s.) IN 509 tic the Romans staged their first revolu- tion: they turned out the royal house of Tarquin and...

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Language of Darkness

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Modern German Poetry, 1910-1960. Edited by Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton. (MacGibbon and Kee, 30s.) LUROPEAN unity—economic, political, cultural— [nay be widely...

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Cold Facts

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A Prospect a Ferrara. By Giorgio Bassani. (Faber, 18s.) 'THE new situations of human consciousness'— ah! what else can the novelist write about? The reader pricks up and...

Muse and Mother

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AT the start of his first Oxford lecture Robert Graves mocks the idea that a French savant or 'a bright young redbrick lecturer' might have anything to say about poetry which...

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Investment Notes

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By CUSTOS A NEW Government 'tap' issue—£400 million of 5 per cent. Exchequer, 1967, at 98— does not make much sense. It was scarcely to make ready for the repayment of the £300...

The Capital Market-3

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The European Bourses By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE earthquake in Wall Street was felt throughout the Western world. The great shock on 'Black Monday' (May 28), when the American...

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Company Notes

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L ORD MARKS, the chairman of Marks and Spencer, gave shareholders a most interest- in g report at the meeting held last week. One ,Mason given for the small increase in turnover...

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Consuming Interest

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All-in-All By LESLIE ADRIAN The idea is that the MAA, with the help of the Institution of Automobile Assessors and the Institute of Arbitrators, will settle disputes be- tween...

Postscript .• •

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By CYRIL RAY WAS beginning to get worried about Lanca- shire. Not so much that unbroken series of county championship draws and defeats before they gave Surrey a tows- ing last...

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Wine ot the Week

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MILE firm of 0. W. Loeb is especially famous 1 for its Mosels, which account for more than half its retail list. But at Glyndebourne, where it supplies all the German wines,...