26 AUGUST 1960

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HE LIMITATIONS OF NATO

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BY PATRICK LORT-PHILLIPS

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Portrait of the Week

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IN Moscow, the American, Powers, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for spying on the kussians, and in Nairobi the white man, Poole. Was hanged for the murder of a black...

THE PROSECUTORS

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As Penguin Books Ltd. have been summonsed under the Obscene Publications Act, the case of Lady Chatterley's Lover is now sub judice; and this means . . . But what does it mean?...

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No. 6896 Established FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1820 1960

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No Bid for NATO

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ACCORDING to the Mail's lead story on TuesdaY1 .the reason that General Norstad has warned the NATO powers that he is considering handing in his resignation this autumn is not,...

Tightening the Gag

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T E Government of Ceylon has shown itself to be unusually, far-sighted. Normall■ 3 administration. which is backing towards at to• cracy waits. until the newspapers begin to...

Which Leaders?

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ACCORDING to one of the better-informed of ..the numerous :trailers' which the public has been shown of the Monckton Commission's findings, the Report is going to recommend that...

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Sir Lewis Namier

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• S IR LEWIS NAMIER was the greatest British historian that the twentieth century has yet produced. That he was not recognised as such by the public was his own fault. He...

The Great Wash

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By BERNARD LEVIN AM sure,' said President Eisen- hower between rounds, 'Powers has not been brainwashed.' And Captain Powers's father took one look at his son's demeanour in the...

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The Limitations of NATO

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By PATRICK LORT-PHILLIPS* rhe charge o question the value of friends is to invite disloyalty. And when these friends are nations bound together in a military alliance, the...

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Towards October

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By ERSKINE B. CHILDERS N ORTHERN RHODESIA is racing towards crisis, with only weeks to go—and only Mr. Macleod can halt the race. The Colonial Secre- tary repeated recently...

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With a Little Bit of Luck

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From MICHAEL LEAPMAN NICOSIA SUPPOSE it is impossible for an occasion like I the handing over of a country's government to look anything like as momentous as it really is....

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Sut,—Hamburg may have to give pride of place to Soho

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as a strip-tease centre, but it is still comfortably in the lead for sado-masochistic spectacles. The most popular displays are endless variations on women's boxing and...

BRAVE NEW UNOERWORLD SIR.—I must put Cyril Ray right on

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three points. I did not insinuate myself in the strip-clubs disguised as a member, but declared myself as a journalist col- lecting copy: the reception was cagy but finally...

SIR,—Beware, beware, their flashing eyes, their float- ing hair. I

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mean the lascivious contortions in the strip-tease clubs. If, as you suggest, these establish- ments were to be subject to more stringent control by the licensing authorities,...

—Y ou are quite wrong to state, as you do in

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your e ditorial on the Powers trial, that the English law of contempt is framed only to protect the accused from !hat might otherwise be an unfair trial. The law is u esigned to...

SIR,—Dr. Donald Mel, Johnson reverts to a familiar fallacy when

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he mentions, as a mark of our opulent society, the 'ugly rash of street prostitution' prior to the Street Offences Act. It is true that the police had stepped up the number of...

SIR,—Mr. Erskine Childers is quite right. Reviewers should not be

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obliged `to create literary dynasties'; but they should have sufficient background know- ledge not to accuse an author of suppression when he published in 1956 a detailed...

lady Chatterley Roy Jenkins, MP, L. J. Blom-Cooper Brave New

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Underworld Kenneth Allsop, Ian Sainsbury, R. L. Archdale, R. P. Trevor Israel Jon Kimche. Gertrude Elias, T. Sandbank South Africa Randolph Vigne W edehouse and Chandler...

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Rne—Discussing Nathan Altman. 'Miss Elias might have paused to notice

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that his name is, in fact, Nathan Altermann. Mr. Adler rightly guessed that Nathan 'Altman' (again, that name!) is a Zionist. He is, in fact, a professed member of Mapai, Mr....

SIR,-1 never deplored a loss of 'mystique in Zionism' as

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Mr. Adler interprets my, fetter, but the discarding of Hebrew ethical tradition in Israel's conduct. Ben- Gurionism is not 'expedient' but just wrong both from a national and an...

A SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOLARSHIP

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SIR,—John Reeves, the elder son of the Bishop of Johannesburg and an ordinand of unusual promise , was tragically drowned a year ago in South Africa. Shortly after his death a...

TAMPERING WITH FOOD

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SIR,—In his/her admirable comments on food adult' teration, Leslie Adrian says soothingly about the dyeing of oranges, `. . . no one eats the skin.' This ignores the...

SOUTH AFRICA SIR,—Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie contradictorily de- scribes a Progressive

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Party speech as 'non-racialist,' yet refers to this party's aim to protect 'the rights of racial minorities' by 'group' (i.e. race) 'representation in an upper house.' He also...

WODEHOUSE AND CHANDLER SIR,—Mr. Ronald Bryden's perceptive review of P.

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G. Wodehouse's latest novel has led me to reflect on a teasing coincidence. Both Wodehouse and Raymond Chandler attended Dulwich College around the turn of the century; both,...

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Theatre

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Casey's Court Rebuilt By ALAN BRIEN Sparrers Can't Sing is a piece of Thirties music hall brilliantly preserved and pickled by Joan Littlewood. This is Casey's Court . rebuilt...

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Television

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Abroad Thoughts From Home By PETER FORSTER , THE only television I saw in the South of France was un Western, and nobody in the bar was taking the slightest notice. This was at...

Ba Ilet

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Physical Invention By CLIVE BARNES LIKE Gaul, Balanchine's Rotor& Fantasque is divided into three parts, and indeed there is some- thing Gallic about the whole ballet. With its...

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Ci Tema

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Second Time Round By ISABEL QUIGLY The Girl and the River and The Fanatics. (Cameo- Pol y.) — Let No Man Write My Epitaph. (Odeon, Mar- ble Arch.) Some situations are so...

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BOOKS

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He By NEAL ASCHERSON D OWN with a crash . . . , still grasping the knob of Inkosi-kaas, fell the brave old Zulu—dead.' The dying Umslopogaas, having held the great staircase...

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Certainties

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THE fame of Descartes has at least three separate and very firm foundations. In philosophy, it was he who made into the starting point of the philosopher's inquiry the question,...

Nature Methodised

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:ant oos' neY , ling of but tori t s le sat ring the !nee had too tters fifes Vic' and Vital me , ould Mr. and to itr but with as a relis nigh th e s of m an !fort...

European Mastery

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The New Cambridge Modern History. Volume X. The Zenith of European Power: 1830- 1870. Edited by J. P. T. Bury. (C.U.P., 40s.) THIS is not only the best volume of the New...

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Dubliner Displaced

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The Luck of Ginger Coffey. By Brian Moore. (Deutsch, I5s.) The Hosts of Rebecca. By Alexander Cordell. (Gollancz, 16s.) A Number of Things. By Honor Tracy. (Methuen, 15s.) CAN...

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Men of Letters

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T he Goncourt Brothers. By Andre Billy. Trans- lated by Margaret Shaw. (Deutsch, 30s.) WHAT real men of letters they were! ' writes M. Billy perhaps with a shade of irony. 'No...

Siege of Fort Sumter

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PRESIDENT BUCHANAN lingered on in the White House towards the end of 1860, a Baldwinesque figure, inert, undignified, hopeful that by pre- varication he would delay the...

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A SURFEIT OF ENERGY

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By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT One of the last major efforts of the OEEC was to publish the report of an advisory commission it had set up under the chairmanship of Pro- fessor Austin...

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I NVESTMENT NOTES

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By CUSTOS irk`n ay 9 , as my colleague suggested last week. L t eally looks as if the bear market ended on He new account has opened with a burst of strength and once again...

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Roundabout

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Swinging the Censor By KATHARINE WHITEHORN About the time that I was seeing Les Enfants, Prince Charles and Princess Anne were being taken to see Ben-Hur—not, one supposes,...

COMPANY NOTES

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L AST year was a momentous one for Metal Industries, who were successful in outbid- ding Electrical and Musical Industries for Lancashire Dynamo Holdings at a cost of £12...

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Consuming Interest

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Traveller's Woe ADRIA By LESLIE TliOgli innocents abroad, did they ever exist? It is more likely that the real innocents are caught on their home ground. This is post-mortem...

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Thought for Food

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Browging on Shamrock By RAYMOND POSTGATE Liverpool is a city whose spirit was broken when the Cunard and White Star transferred the Atlantic railings to Southampton, Before...

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Postscript . • • I AM no lover of English

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public houses — squalid and smelly stand-up places (like other male conveniences), where you drink tepid swipes against time and scoop up your change out of pools of Burton or...