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p Portrait of the Week —
The Spectator* CONFERENCES CONTINUED. Canadian police heavily guarded Ottawa hotels against warnings of bomb- throwing from the Quebec Liberation Front as I - oreign Ministers gathered for...
AN AFRICAN CHARTER?
The SpectatorT HE African Heads of State are meeting at Addis Ababa this week to talk about African unity. They do so against a back- ground of dissension and smouldering dis- putes which...
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First Kennedy Round
The SpectatorDONALD GORDON writes from Geneva : The Kennedy Round has survived, but only in the most negative sense. Six days of plen- ary bombast and remarkably hesitant private con-...
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Public Faces in Public Places
The SpectatorBy DAVID WATT W E are all going to get pretty sick of the word 'dynamic' (whatever that means) before we finally succeed in electing ourselves a new Government. So much is...
The Backward Peasants
The SpectatorFrom SARAH GAINHAM BONN T HE main interest of the Lower Saxony elec- tions on Sunday was not the results, which were fairly predictable. The Social Democrats increased their...
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Le Roy le Veult
The SpectatorFrom HARRY FRANKLIN MBABANE, SWAZILAND LICE would have loved it all. Mr. Frank A Cousins missed a treat. In the shade of an avenue of cassia trees, the Swazi workers' dele-...
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NATO at Ottawa: The Nuclear Deadlock
The SpectatorBy HEDLEY BULL O NE of the effects of modern military tech- nology upon international politics, it may be argued, is to render alliances a thing of the past. Any State, in...
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None of them looked at all surprised. In those days
The Spectatorsuffragettes arrested for causing 3 breach of the peace frequently went on hange r strikc. In order that they should not die In prison, the Home Secretary would release then...
The fortunes of Daisy Talbot, daughter of the Wardcn of
The SpectatorGloucester College, decline after her marriage to Tony Caldecott, whose weakness and conversion to Communism are interdepor dent, until she degenerates into a bedroom whisky...
How to provide the historical informatio n which the ordinary reader
The Spectatorwill not keep in h is head, and for which Mr. FitzGibbon's earli er writings have so well equipped him? There are monologues from characters apparently en- dowed with a...
Mr. Hyde's book is the outcome of his achievement in
The Spectatorobtaining permission to see the restricted papers in the Home Office, access to which had always previously been denied to writers about Wilde. He is concerned solely with the...
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Technical Co-operation—whose publicity ar- rangements in these UN matters leave
The Spectatormuch to be desired—Mr. Paul Hoffman said that twenty out of the hundred underdeveloped countries Could go from poverty to a reasonable standard of living before the end of the...
came back to 22s, 6d. to yield nearly
The Spectatorwill cent. What profits the television industry "nt make after the Bill has gone through is eiltir elY a matter of guesswork. Brokers' estimates for the time being should be...
NEW ACQUISITION : PROGRESS OF CURRENT
The SpectatorTon Fourth Annual General Meeting of Seafield Amalgamated Rubber Company Limited was held on May. 15 in London, Mr. A. H. Marshall, M.A., F.C.A. (Chairman and Managing Director)...