25 JUNE 1948

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ANARCHY AT THE DOCKS

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These details are worth recalling, but the fundamental issue is whether agreements freely negotiated, in most respects very favour- able to the men, are to be observed or...

America's Next President

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Rarely has it been so certain that one party convention in the United States will decide who the next President will be. For this year, unless, contrary to all belief, the...

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The Salving of E.R.P.

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The victory of Senator Vandenberg over Mr. Taber, resulting in the passage of the European Recovery Programme Bill through both the Senate and the House of Representatives with...

The Arab Camp

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The journey which King Abdullah of Transjordan is now under- taking to neighbouring Arab States serves to draw attention to the increased importance of the place which this...

The Agreement With Eire

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The fact of the conclusion of the new trade agreement with Eire, and the manifestly cordial spirit in which the negotiations were conducted by both sides, is at least as...

Hollywood and British Films

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Hollywood's swift reaction against the 45 per cent. quota figure for British feature films announced last week by the President of the Board of Trade seems completely...

Hand Over in Delhi

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On Monday Lord Mountbatten left New Delhi and a few hours later Mr. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was sworn in as Governor- General in the Durbar Hall. He referred to his...

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Bishops in Conference

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The opening of the seventh Lambeth Conference next week is an event of much more than merely ecclesiastical importance. The Anglican Ccrnmun'on has spread to the ends of the...

Children's Leisure

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Out of School, a report by the Central Advisory Council for Educa- tion (England) dealing with the leisure activities of children from five to fifteen, contains much that is a...

AT WESTMINSTER

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T HERE was a pre-war atmosphere about Parliament this week; and it is an atmosphere which will recur. Except for the rejected Amendment to the Parliament Act, which will be...

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DANGER IN GERMANY

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D ESPITE the fact that Russian reactions in Berlin are accen- tuating the already grave difficulties of unified economic control there, it will not be an easy matter for later...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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T HE House of Commons, which sees Mr. Churchill in varying aspects, saw and heard him at the top of his form in the debate on the Third Reading of the Representation of the...

Every motorist will welcome the recommendation of the Minister of

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Transport's Ferries Committee that of the 44 vehicular ferries now in use in Britain the 39 which levy tolls should in future be free. The proposal is strictly logical. A ferry...

In referring last week to the vicissitudes of various Bristol

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evening papers I inadvertently spoke of Lord Northcliffe founding the Evening World in 1929. I should, of course, have written the Northcliffe organisation (then headed by the...

The descent of the 50o West Indian workers on Great

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Britain raises problems that will become acute if the example of the pioneers is widely followed. There is a lot to be said for the immi- grants. They appear to be men of a good...

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Speech Day season is just now in full swing, and I am left doubtful whether the greater sum of human suffering is concentrated in the unhappy person who has to hand out prizes...

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It is useful to have it established in the Courts, as it was in a case heard before Mr. Justice Pritchard on Tuesday, that it is no libel to call a man a Fascist. But in fact...

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STEEL AND POLITICS

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By WALTER TAPLIN I F the iron and steel industry were to be nationalised tomorrow it would be a case of the blind leading the dumb. Even the pretence that the Government sees...

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THE OLYMPIC GAMES

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By HAROLD M. ABRAHAMS F ORTY years ago, on the evening of the famous " Dorando " Marathon race, at an official banquet given by His Majesty's Government to the officials at the...

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OPERATION OVERFLOW

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By DAVID BROCK Vancouver. D URING the last four weeks we in British Columbia have thought about little but floods. As these words are written (in mid- June) the rivers are...

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IRAQI RELAPSE

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By GEORGE PIGOTT I F the Palestine tragedy is the occasion for the bad relations which now exist between Britain and Iraq, this is only because the Iraqi public has been...

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A YUGOSLAV FARM

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By H. D. WALSTON Just beyond the village we turned off to the left, under a primitive triumphal arch, down a dirt track, and after a quarter of a mile came to the co-operative...

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THE RIGHT TO GRUMBLE [Mr. Herbert Morrison recently suggested that

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nationalisation of a service gives the public, for the first time, the status to complain of it.] IN former days consumers who deplored Some fault in such an industry as coal...

MUSIC IN WALES

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By N. M. ROBERTS L LANGOLLEN, North Wales, has a population of 2,9oo, the memory of the Ladies of Plas Newydd and a bridge over the Dee which is one of the Seven Wonders of...

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MARGINAL COMMENT

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By HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE been reading this week a reprint of the two Lewis Fry 1 Memorial lectures given at Bristol University by Sir William Haley, the Director-General of...

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MUSIC

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" I uniqx that Liszt is most appreciated as a composer by those who have lived abroad a lot." It was in this deceptively modest aphorism that an eminent representative of the...

CONTEMPORARY ARTS

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THE THEATRE Cage Me a Peacock." By Noel Langley. (Strand.) WHEN I see the words " A New Musical " a faint pedantic frisson of disapproval gives way almost immediately to a...

THE CINEMA

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" Oliver Twist." (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—" Gentleman's Agree- ment" (Leicester Square.)—" Sitting Pretty." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.) MESSRS. David Lean and Ronald Neame,...

" A La Carte." Book and Lyrics by Alan Melville.

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Music by Charles Zwan. (Savoy.) A La Carte (which to judge from certain discrepancies in the Programme has been overhauled and strengthened since the first night) is really...

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SPECTATOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES

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Ordinary e dition to any address in the World. 52 weeks £1 10s. Od. 26 weeks 15s. Air Mail to any Country in Europe 52 weeks £2 7s. 6cL 26 weeks £1 3s. 9d. By Air to—...

GRAMOPHONE NOTES

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THE most original item in H.M.V.'s recent lists is the set of madrigals by the Cambridge University Madrigal Society. It is a representative collection (twelve sides), and the...

ART

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ToPoLsici is back at the Leicester Galleries with an orgy more fevered than ever. Translated into paint, his instinctive calligraphy bubbles and belches like oil on the boil....

CONVERSATION

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As tree-stems hold Clear against winter-cold Their myriad boughs enlocked, enlaced, In one intricate pattern firmly traced: So may men's swift minds lightly hold Their delicate...

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RURAL EDUCATION

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SIR,—The general public is only beginning to realise the gravity of our food situation, and the need to conserve our rapidly shrinking acres of fertile soil and to secure the...

GREEK REBEL PROPAGANDA

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SIR,—A campaign has been launched recently in various countries, in- cluding Great Britain, to enlist support for the " Markos Evacuation Plan," which is the euphemistic way of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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THE WHITE GODDESS " Sla,—Dr. Glyn E. Daniel, reviewing my White Goddess and misled by its unpedantic style into thinking that I have taken no trouble to check my facts, lists...

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TESTS OF 1902

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Stn,—According to John Wisden's Cricketer's Almcrnack for 1903, page 283, G. L. Jessop " scored in just over an hour and a quarter 104 runs out of 139, his hits being a 5,...

COMMUNISM IN THE FAR EAST

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Snt,—Is it not possible to take Mr. G. B. Thomas's admirable article in The Spectator of June 18th a step further by suggesting that the increase in Communist activity in Burma...

LE FIVE O'CLOCK

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Sm,—After recent experience of the courtesy of Continental hotels, one is abruptly discouraged by the short-sighted bluntness of certain hotel- keepers at home. Recently, with a...

THE BRIGHT YEARS

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Sm,—Mr. Dymond's cries of " Here I am again!", though a little late, are recognisable. And I seem to remember hearing that Whimsical Walker, that other delight of children of...

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EMPLOYMENT IN PRISONS

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Sta,—By mischance the Lord Chancellor was widely reported as saying that prison earnings had been, up to recently, 6d. a day, and were now increased by 50 per cent. For " day "...

Kindly Fruits

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The kindly fruits of the earth, if that means wild fruits, are peculiarly abundant this year, though many of the cultivated fruits are sparse. I write after feasting on a bowl...

BELLOWS' DICTIONARY

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StR,—The mention, by Janus, of a recent issue of a "neatly bound volume" of Bellows' French Dictionary revives memories of happy days gone by seeing that it was the only one in...

In the Garden Is there any flowering shrub in the

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list that can rival Zephyrine Drouhin ? The individual rose flower is of course not remarkable, except in scent, but numbers atone for form. I started to count the flowers on...

COUNTRY LIFE

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THE smell of "new-mown hay," now beginning to please our sense, is, I suppose, peculiarly English ; at any rate the phrase—in English—appears again and again in French books....

RECORDS OF PATIENTS

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Snt,—Before joining the new Health Service the public should realise that the strict professional secrecy formerly observed between doctor and patient will not obtain in this...

SPORT AND DAGOS "

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SIR, —I see you have taken on yourself to belabour me for my chance remark at Hastings re sport and dagos. I think you might have taken the trouble to find out my meaning before...

GRADUANDS

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SIR,—Surely Janus has not descended to "coining" new words? As the Oxford Dictionary does not show this variant of graduate, it is to be [Janus writes: " Graduand may be a good...

Bird Circulation The circulation of birds grows patently every year

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in this bird-loving island ; witness individual experience, the number of books, letters and articles, and indeed of organisations concerned with their welfare. The Royal...

Postage on this issue : Inland, lid.; Overseas, Id.

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Light into Darkness ?

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The End of an Age. By W. R. Inge. (Putnam. 10s. 6d.) ANY age worth its salt has its prophets who find a deep and moral satisfaction in rubbing that salt into the raw and...

BOOKS OF THE DAY

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The Prime Minister Mr. Attlee. By Roy Jenkins. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) IT is remarkable how little most people know of the sixty-two years of the Prime Minister's life that were...

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Exile in Istanbul

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A Prince of Arabia: The Emir Shereef All Haider. By George Stitt. (Allen and Unwin. 21s.) THE Emir Shereef All Haider was born in 1866 in the comfortable exile of Istanbul, and...

Spooks and Geese

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Heyday of a Wizard : Daniel Home the Medium. By Jean Burton. (Harrap. 10s. 6d.) Heyday of a Wizard : Daniel Home the Medium. By Jean Burton. (Harrap. 10s. 6d.) WHAT, precisely,...

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Unknown Italy

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[Christ Stopped at Eboli. By Carlo Levi, translated by Frances Frenaye. (CasselL 9s. 6d.) IN 1935, at the beginning of the Abyssinian War, Mr. Levi, a painter of Turin who was...

Boxing in Britain

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British Boxing. By Denzil Batchelor. (Britain in Pictures. Collins. 5s.) Tins is a very pleasing little book, and Mr. Batchelor has com- pressed into forty-seven pages a...

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Fiction

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TliE average humorist thrives on an ability to divide humanity into types. The Man Who Always Does This or That is not only easier to pin down, but much more readily recognised...

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" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 483

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[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week 7446 , 6th. Envelopes...

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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By CUSTOS Iry the City, so far as the market prospect is concerned, it is a case of " the debate continues." Pinning their faith on the continued high level of employment,...