26 AUGUST 1955

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ATOMS FOR BUSINESS

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I T seems to have been overlooked that the Geneva atomic conference was a trade fair, as well as a meeting of scientists. At the trade fair Britain ought to have shown the rest...

NORTH AFRICAN MAELSTROM

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T HE violent outbreaks in Morocco and Algeria last week- end with a confirmed death-roll of two thousand (and probably many more) mark a turning point in France's relations with...

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Portrait of the Week

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T HE silly season, they call it, and it has been a week of tragedies. More than two thousand people are known to have lost their lives in the rioting in French North Africa. In...

FLEET STREET WOODWORM

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VENING newspapers find good stories hard to come by Lin a sweltering August. It was with macabre satisfaction that they heard on August 18 that runaway tanks had killed soldiers...

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Political Commentary

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BY HENRY FAIRLIE A HISTORY of England which does not mention Sir Winston Churchill—that was the first I knew of Biography of a Nation, which has been written by two Conservative...

IRA INTELLIGENCE

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`At about 2.10 a.m. today a number of Irishmen with loaded weapons visited No. 5 Training Battalion, REME. . . Southern Command HQ. `The gang—it is thought to consist of eight...

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THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL has had a very poor reception for his

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directive about political broadcasting which replaced the gentlemen's agreement with the BBC. The only support for his policy of extending his control is from the Sunday...

A Spectator's Notebook

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LAST WEEK a Northumberland vicar was prosecuted for aiding and abetting the publication of obscene photographs. There are two extremely unsatisfactory features about this...

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ON TUESDAY the Daily Sketch gave a vivid account of

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a birth- day party at Balmoral for Princess Margaret: 'Flashing torches of guests and servants lit up the gardens between the doors of the Castle and the marquee where the...

A SINGER who was performing at the Palladium lost her

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voice and was unable to appear. Her place was taken, I read, by 'a singing chorus-girl.' What will chorus girls be able to do next?

Reluctant German Soldiers

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BY ALISTAIR HORNE N EARLY four months have elapsed since the Federal Republic regained her sovereignty, and by the time the parliamentary recess began last month, the first...

1. Nougat Royal 3. Le Nougat de la Belle France

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5. Au Rucher de Provence (Toilette, Nougat) 7. Auberge Provençal—Nougat 9. (Residence) 11. M. Soumaitre (Trousseaux) 13. Tabac Le Havane—Nougat 15. Grand Cafe Miland — Nougat...

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Evans or Christie ?

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BY IAN GILMOUR I N December, 1949, Timothy Evans was charged with the murder of his wife and baby. Later he was tried for the murder of the baby, sentenced to death and hanged....

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The 27th County

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By FRANK LITTLER W E had been talking about Father O'Brien's sym- posium, which neither of us had read, and when we got off the bus in Kilburn my friend halted for a moment and...

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Round Corsewall Point

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BY BERNARD FERGUSSON OUND Corsewall Point and Milleur Point, on August 10, 1955, came the royal yacht Britannia, early in the morning. At 9.30 she came alongside the ugly utili-...

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City and Suburban

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BY JOHN BETJEMAN W HICH is the most beautiful public bar in London? I think it is the crescent of mirrors and cream-and- gold stucco in the downstairs part of the Palace...

Answers to Holiday Questions

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Answers to the questions which appeared last week. 1. a. Diamond. b. Rosinante. c. Hodge. d, Modestine. e. Mancha and Gato. 2. a, Clackmannanshire. b. Towy (Tywi) is the...

Strix

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is at present on holiday. His articles will be resumed next week

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GODFREY AND SIDDONS SIR,—Mr. Betjeman's use of the Chatto and

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Windus centenary as a peg on which to hang his praise of the Rivington catalogue is ingenious. But his knowledge of the catalogue is curiously faulty. The works of Godfrey and...

Sm,—Your timely leading article on Cyprus ignores the Communist danger,

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which is very real. Up to three years ago AKEL, the local Communist Party, was opposed to enosis. There was the customary Cominform somer- sault. There were the usual purges....

ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SIR,—A national campaign is about to

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be launched with the object of bringing capital punishment to an end at the earliest possible moment. The Executive Committee consists of Canon Collins, of St. Paul's, Gerald...

SIR,—I read with particular interest your lead- ing article 'Compromise

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on Cyprus' May I be allowed to comment on certain points? Full citizenship in a sovereign State implies duties no less than rights, military conscrip- tion and taxation for...

Letters to the Editor Compromise on Cyprus J. A. Phrantzes,

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Zenon Romides, Harold Sorel Godfrey and Siddons S. C. Roberts Abolition of Capital Punishment Victor Gollancz Thomas the Rhymer Thomas Archer The Doomed Island Uisteach AIL,....

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ON INCONVENIENT ALLIES

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SIR,—Latest contributions to the Week's Good (Get-tough-with-Communism) cause: A fine flourish of classical scholarship from Mr. C. J. Hewart writing from an aptly named...

SIR, —At this moment when the air is heavy with the

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beating of doves' wings would it not be a nice gesture to offer the Russians the body of Karl Marx now lying in Highgate Cemetery? They would surely be overjoyed to receive it,...

SIR,—As crofters, who have had our roots for centuries in

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the soil of South Uist, we find it not a little tiresome that Mr. Denis Branagan, a recent incomer to North Uist, should diag- nose the alleged ills of an entirely different...

SIR,—Nicholas Davenport makes certain remarks about our trade position which

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seem to me debatable (August 19, page 264). He writes, 'It is possible to have full employment and an international surplus, but only if output rises faster than the wage cost...

Sta.—After Senor Albaricoque's article, 'Cric- ket Frenzy,' 1 hope that

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the MCC will ask the Voice of America to broadcast for Spanish listeners a more accurate description of the game. To start with : 'Players and Gentle- men'—neverl But someone...

THOMAS THE RHYMER -

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Sta,—It is difficult not to admire the skill of Mr. Davenport's letter, but his urbanity and good humour should not be allowed to con- ceal his avoidance of the real issue...

THE DOOMED ISLAND

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SIR,—Mr. Branagqn's letter has brought accuracy and an informed viewpoint to this correspondence. I spent years in the Uists, and I go there frequently still; I know hundreds of...

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Music

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ONE of the problems of the Edinburgh Festival that Ian Hunter has never solved is how to start it. This year's opening, the last under his direction, followed the pattern of...

Contemporary Arts

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Edinburgh, 1955 BEING at the Edinburgh Festival is a timeless experience; to anyone who was at the 1954 version 1955 will bring few novelties either on the stage or in the art...

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Paris Exhibitions

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THERE is much to be learnt about French painting in the railway compartment on the way from the coast. Look at the door of the carriage, the robustness of the apparatus for...

Cinema

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THE DEEP BLUE SEA. (Carlton.)—FRENCH CAN-CAN. (Cameo-Poly.)—Love ME OR LEAVE ME. (Empire.) IT is no easy task to take Peggy Ashcroft's place in The Deep Blue Sea, the play by...

Ebe appertator

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AUGUST 28, 1830 [ADVERTISEMENT.] The ART of INVIGORATIN0 and PROLONGING LIFE, by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c. Or, The INVALID'S ORACLE: containing Peptic...

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A Summer Serial—IV

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Samuel Deronda BY JOHN WAIN Samuel Deronda, anxious to impress his sweetheart, Minnie Stroney, discovers that he has a gift for writing 'poetry,' as under- stood in certain...

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BOOKS

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Belloc Anadyomene By EVELYN WAUGH H ' ILAIRE BELLOC had a strong dislike of personal publicity and of all forms of written gossip. During the last twenty years, of his life he...

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`One of Us'

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ELINOR GLYN. By Anthony Glyn. (Hutchinson, 18s.) IN 1931 Elinor Glyn attended the International PEN Congress in Budapest. Her speech followed the reading of some modern Italian...

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Proper Studies

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SAID AND DONE. The Autobiography of an Archicologist, by 0. G. S. Crawford. (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 21s.) THE TRACK OF MAN. Adventures of an Anthropologist, by Henry Field....

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The Great Schism

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THE SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 1939-1946. THE RE- ALIGNMENT OF EUROPE. Edited by A. Toynbee and V. M. Taynbee. (O.U.P., 60s.) THE war-time volumes of the Chatham House...

Growing One's World

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THE CHILD'S CONSTRUCTON OF REALITY. By Jean Piaget. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 25s.) EXPERIMENTAL, PSYCHOLOGY. A series of broadcast talks. Edited by B. J. Farrell. (Basil...

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Norman Douglas

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'MANY of us would do well,' says Norman Douglas in Siren Land, 'to "mediterraneanise" ourselves for a season, to quicken those ethnic roots from which has sprung so much of what...

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COINCIDENCES

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Mentioning my earlier remarks on water divining and the use of the pendulum, an- other letter from a friend who lives in Donegal goes on, 'I have seen sex-determination by the...

THE GREGARIOUS BIRDS

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Once the breeding season is over, one becomes increasingly conscious of the gather- ing of birds. The linnets and finches move in parties. The rooks cross the heavens in...

MOULD AND MILDEW

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Mould and mildew are likely to be found in greenhouses when the weather has been abnor- mally hot and watering may have been exces- sive. Lack of ventilation promotes mildew,...

Country Life

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BY IAN NIALL HARVEST on the Welsh hills is only half- mechanised, for the nature of the country prevents complete labour-saving. When the wind is playful, the corn gets...

Chess

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BY PHILIDOR No. 12. .1. J. RIETVELD BLACK, 12 men. WHITE, 8 men. WHITE to play and mate in 2 moves: solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Andrews. Kt-Q5!...

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SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 849

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ACROSS 1 They arrived with pounds and shillings 1 (6). 4 Hurry up to cook the eggs (8). 10 Girls. it takes one aback! (7) 11 The birds' enclosure doesn't lack food (7)- '...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 289 ' Set by John Barlow Myxomatosis

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is said to have started a 'chain-reaction' in the countryside (fewer rabbits—less food for stoats—stoats eat more squirrels—fewer squirrels means more wood-pigeons, and so on)....

Solution on September 9 Solution to No 847 on page

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iii The winners of Crossword No. 847 are Mm P. D. LYALL, Hamlield Painswick, Glos., and MR. G. W. PARRY, 1.1 Scotland Road, BRCIdnif,I Hill , Essex.

. . . And Now, Over to Elah'

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Competitors were asked to imagine that a device had been given to radio sports commentators that enabled them to see events as they took place in the past. The usual prize was...

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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IN reviewing our economic prospects last week, I was forced to the conclusion that if labour did not co-operate with Mr. Butler, there would be a...

COMPANY NOTES

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By CUSTOS BY Wednesday industrial equity shares had fallen 16 per cent. from their 'high' of July 21. As they had risen 27 per cent. between the March low' and the July 'high'...