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COLD WAR ENDING?
The Spectator1922 And All Th David Watt Under the Red Flag Keith Kyle Britain's Guantanamo Arnold Beichman Pride and Poverty Coim Brogan Fall Guys Andrew Sinclair 61st FINANCIAL SURVEY
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COLD WAR ENDING?
The SpectatorA GREEMENT in Moscow on a partial test ban treaty comes at a moment when British political life is badly in need of a breath of fresh air. For three or four months now domestic...
— Portrait of the Week— `THE EVIL. that men do lives
The Spectatorafter them.' The week's news centred round variations on a theme by Rachman, private and public. The Commons argued its way through the noisiest debate for months on rents and...
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Political Commentary
The Spectator1922 And All That By DAVID WATT • But there is another way in which reactions to Mr. Macmillan will be highly significant. Silence will mean that the rank and file are...
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Under the Red Flag
The SpectatorFrom KEITH KYLE NAIROBI N o sooner had Sheikh Mohamed Shamte been confirmed as Prime Minister of Zanzi- bar after last week's 'election result than Tom Mboya was on the phone...
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Britain's Guantanamo From ARNOLD BE1CHMAN ADEN STATE
The SpectatorN summer, 1959, 1 sat in the drawing-room I of the Governor's palace in Nairobi, talking with Sir Evelyn Baring. In time, he said, Kenya would enjoy far greater self-government...
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Pride and Poverty
The SpectatorBy COLM BROGAN S OME time ago I found myself in a Northern university listening to a lecture on the Oxford Campaign for Famine Relief. It was a good lecture and most agreeably...
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I Spy One of the things I find most striking
The Spectatorabout all this spying business is how easy it makes the job of journalists. Consider. A journalist has only to write 'Mr. X was an agent of the British intelli- gence in the...
Beyond Kindness Several points emerge from the correspon- dence which
The Spectatorfollowed Herb Greer's article on old age some weeks ago. Overwhelmingly the most striking are the extent and relative novelty of the problem. Mr. F. Le Gros Clark's suggestion...
Three Hours on French Soil . . .
The SpectatorMost people come aboard at Southend. Board- ing at Gravesend is altogether different, quieter and gentler. The Thames in the early morning, breakfast when the dining-room is...
Eighty Thousand Rivers to Cross
The Spectator'Good News' is, sadly, not the name of the new religious daily paper that may be appearing in November, but merely the heading. of the announcement appearing in the religious...
Spectator's Notebook
The SpectatorM R. ANTHONY WEST, in his recent article, criticised a number of MPs, including Mr. Reginald Paget, QC, because of recent statements in the House calculated to reflect on...
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Landed Interests
The SpectatorBy JACK DONALDSON D URING the negotiations for entry to the Common Market it was inevitable that planning for the future of the British agricul- tural industry should remain in...
Outing Over
The SpectatorLater the drink still flows. They have a fan- tastic capacity. The decks have been cleared, so that only the smell of staling beer fingers. but they still have newspapers co...
All Aboard
The SpectatorFive o'clock is the climax. The people of Calais come out by the hundred to line the harbour and cheer the returning English. It is not easy. For some, urgency has lost its...
The Invaders
The SpectatorApproaching Calais the loudspeaker is insis- tent and repetitive; the Daffodil will leave promptly at five o'clock. The Daffodil will wait for no one. Then some do not wish to...
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Rachmansland Colin Machines, R. L. Travers Whose Poison Gas? W.
The SpectatorHorlock Old Age S. M. Sir David Kelly Lady Kelly Sir Winston's Pyjamas G. B. H. Wightman Burying the Coffin Peter Donoghue. Geogrey Parker The Price of Money Nicholas Davenport...
Spurling's article under the above title provokes me to ask
The Spectatorwhy it is that, if the facts he relates have been so for the last ten years, they have not hitherto been expressed in the press. One of the main purposes of a free press in a...
WHOSE POISON GAS?
The SpectatorSIR,-1 was horrified with the ,fighthearted manner in which Desmond Stewart treated the recent allegations of gas bombing in the Yemen. Whether poison gas was used or not and...
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OLD AGE SIR,—May I, through the courtesy of your columns,
The Spectatorexpress my warmest thanks and deepest appreciation to all your readers who have responded so generously and sympathetically to my letter in your issue of July 12. As you are...
THE HOUSE OF LORDS
The SpectatorSIR,—Mr. Lennard's important letter is, to my mind, especially timely in that his proposal, if adopted. might well facilitate the emergence of Lord Home as the next Conservative...
THE PRICE OF MONEY
The SpectatorSIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. J. H. Collins. seems obsessed with algebra, dear money and anti-Levcrism. I am sure that Mr. Harold Lever can take care of himself, but if I...
BURYING THE COFFIN
The SpectatorSIR,—First of all may I express my hope that this letter reaches you. I understand that the mails from this part of the world are subject to repeated attacks by the natives, who...
SIR WINSTON'S PYJAMAS
The SpectatorSIR.—The Winston Churchill Wore Pyjamas brigade will find support for their view in Mr. Dean Acheson's book Sketches from Life. He writes that during the war he was called to...
SIR,—Allow me to plead 'not guilty' to Professor Taylor's charge
The Spectatorof ignorance. It is a tribute to the perspicacity of his concept that it has become accepted without credentials intb geographical speech. 'Burying the Coffin' seems to have...
SIR DAVID KELLY SIR,—On my recent return from Spain I
The Spectatorread The A ppeasers, by Messrs. Gilbert and Gott, which I had seen reviewed in the Spectator by Professor Desmond Williams some weeks before. Perhaps, even at this late date,...
Dr. Corliss Lamont .
The SpectatorIn our issues of April 5 and June 28, 1963, we published in the course of contributions by Mr. Robert Conquest references to Dr. Corliss Lamont in which be was described as...
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Theatre
The SpectatorCrowns Awry By DAVID PKVCE-JONES Henry VI and Edward IV. (Stratford-on-Avon.) — Gali- leo. (Mermaid.)—The Beg- gar's Opera. (Aldwych.) FOR his Henry VI, Shake- speare...
Ballet
The SpectatorUs and Them By CLIVE BARNES 1 - r is possible, I suppose, that the frantic ballet activity of the past three weeks has finally done for me, and no sooner will I replace the...
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Cinema
The SpectatorOn the Vampage By ISABEL QUIGLY Eve. (Cameo-Royal; 'X' cer- tificate.) Eve is three-fifths preposterous, but Joseph Losey, the Ancient Mariner of film-makers, glit- tering eye,...
Art
The SpectatorMajor Occasions By NEVILE WALLIS THE excitement aroused by the New London Gallery's double exhibition of the recent works of Henry Moore and Francis Bacon is a sign that...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorFall Guys B Y ANDREW SINCLAIR V ANZETTI knew why he and Sacco were burned in the electric chair. 'We were tried during a time that has now passed into history. I mean by that, a...
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Blundering On
The SpectatorBuller's Campaign. By Julian Symons. (Cresset Press, 30s.) Ma. SYMONS is to be congratulated on his account of Buller's campaign, an account which also clarifies in some detail...
Trans-Siberian Tragedy
The SpectatorThe Fate of Admiral Kolchak. By Peter Fleming. (Hart-Davis, 35s.) FOR many years , after its close the Russian Civil War received little attention from Western scholars; and...
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Lyrical Larynxes
The SpectatorThe Penguin Book of Religious Verse. Edited SOME years ago, we were told that a new art form had been developed called (by Lindsay Anderson) 'jazzetry' and consisting of poetry...
Entertainer and Artist
The SpectatorIce Station Zebra. By Alistair Maclean. (Collins, 16s.) Go Tell it on the Mountain. By James Baldwin. (Michael Joseph, 21s.) Giovanni's Room. By James Baldwin. (Michael Joseph,...
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On the Camping Site
The SpectatorWHEN the last tent peg has been hammered home, the harassed parent reaches gratefully for his pipe and his crime novel. The rigours of sleeper and channel crossing can be...
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61st FINANCIAL SURVEY
The SpectatorPurposeful Investment III NORMAN MILLER Full Service 111 LAURENCE CORLEY Still Too Inarticulate? 111 JOHN CRAWLEY New Look for Insurance ■ FRED DORRIEN ICFC Today III THE RT....
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Full Service
The SpectatorBy LAURENCE CORLEY T Eus may be the era of the specialist, but a notable feature of trading in this day is the alacrity with which one shopkeeper dabbles in the trade of...
Still Too Inarticulate ?
The SpectatorCRAWLEY By JOHN Ts the City—the very citadel of private enter- I prise—wise to be so inarticulate? Admittedly, the City is not so inarticulate as it was, for, ask- ing itself a...
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New Look For Insurance
The SpectatorBy FRED DORRIEN rr HERE must be few insurance shareholders who are unaware of the difficult time the industry is facing, with national fire wastage at new high levels and a...
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ICFC Today
The SpectatorCBE By the Rt. Hon. LORD PIERCY, T o look at ICFC today, it is, 1 think, neces- sary to examine first its yesterday. In other words, the Corporation's growth and develop- ment...
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Building Societies: The Present Scene
The SpectatorBy KEITH KNOWLES T the beginning of 1962 lending for house purchase was at a low level because of the relatively poor inflow of funds from the public towards the end of 1961....
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Mr. Kennedy's Gold Dollar
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT might be thought humili- ating for the American Presi- dent, chief priest of the free enterprise world, to have to confess publicly that his capi-...
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Investment Notes
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS P RESIDENT KENNEDY'S bombshell of a tax on buying foreign securities had surprisingly little effect upon the market in Throgmorton Street International shares such as...
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Consuming Interest
The SpectatorBring Forth More Fruits By ELIZABETH DAVID COLD ROAST DUCK with a puree of green peas: cut up cold roast duck, and arrange it round a pyramid of green peas made into a puree....
Buy Later
The SpectatorBy LESLIE ADRIAN WITH so much in the offing in television—a second chan- nel certainly . for the BBC and probably for ITV too, and colour, eventually, for both—you may feel...
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Afterthought
The SpectatorBy ALAN BRIEN p ROFESSOR J. B. S. H ALDANE once entered his living room and discovered himself already there in his favourite chair. Secure in his scien- tific atheism, he...