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Mr. Nixon's Nightmare
The SpectatorIt is no doubt difficult for the American electorate to keep a due sense of proportion in the midst of a Presidential election campaign, but there is no good reason why outside...
- NEWS OF THE WEEK RESUMABLY there is some point in
The Spectatorthe exchange of Notes between the Western Powers and the Soviet Union on the subject of a German peace treaty at which one side will get sick of it. But that point has not yet...
Yugoslavia, Trieste, Austria
The SpectatorThe ForeigeSecretary's visit to Yugoslavia has plainly been of great importance in drawing the single independent European Communist State closer to the free countries which are...
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Too Much Hush-Hush
The SpectatorGeneral Bradley has shown courage and common sense in publicly advocating such alterations to the Atomic Energy Act as would allow the American Government to authorise (if it...
Chaplin Returns
The SpectatorThe revival of Chaplin's City Lights must have refreshed a few hundred thousand memories, but what is it that keeps him fresh in the minds of millions ? Many in the crowds which...
No Quarter The absurd chain of events which began in
The SpectatorMay with the Amalgamated Engineering Union's claim that £2 a week was the wage increase needed to meet the increase in the cost of living will now have the most serious...
SPECTATOR AUTUMN NUMBER
The SpectatorNext week's " Spectator " will be a special Autumn Number. It will contain, in addition to all the usual features,articles . by Lord Dunsany, Ludovic Kennedy and Lady Pakenham;...
B.O.A.C.'s First Profit
The SpectatorThe general optimism about the future of British a via. tion has been soundly strengthened by the annual report of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, which shows a leap...
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THE REAL HOUSING PROBLEM
The Spectator0 N the face of it there could scarcely be a more concrete problem than that of housin g . As seen by most politicians and by all of the house-seekers, whose misfortunes have...
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Writing in fast week's Spectator, Mr. Ian Niall described how
The Spectatora friend of his accompanied two poachers on a successful foray. " The keeper," his anecdote concluded, " did not manage to come up with the law-breakers "; and this, he seemed...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorT HE Japanese, recognised from 1941 to . 1945 as particularly cruel and treacherous barbarians, were subsequently reclassified by General MacArthur as starry-eyed democrats,...
Most of us believe that the works of Shakespeare were
The Spectatorwritten by Shakespeare, but a few propound with passion the theory that Bacon was responsible for the whole boiling. It is, I surmise, this minority who will react most...
Eton, with what many people think is doubtful wisdom, still
The Spectatorallows boys to be entered for it at birth, or even before birth - (I know at least - two little girls who can claim to have been down for Eton). But however quick off the mark a...
I see, incidentally, that in the second week of the
The SpectatorKorean war, more than two years ago, I wrote—rather pompously—in the Spectator: " It is perhaps not altogether fanciful to suggest that one (and not the least important) of the...
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Africans and Federation
The SpectatorBy W. M. MACMILLAN * T HE long debate on Central African Federation has turned very largely on the problematical rights and needs of the African population (whether or not...
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The New London
The SpectatorBy LUCILIO R OMANTIC love that begins in a lyric frenzy too often ends in a dry prosing of lawyers. It is the way of the world that we read about in the newspapers. Faith,...
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A Time to Speak
The SpectatorBy JOHN BENN A HOPEFUL development is at work in British industry which, if encouraged on a wide enough scale, will do much to solve economic problems and foster social...
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The Shape of a Bird
The Spectator" Break off your argument, Dearest of friends, with patient whom I have turned this muted wood To a long, carpeted room, Hearing you always invent New cures for a sickly mood....
The Church of South India
The SpectatorBy The Most Rev. A. M. HOLLIS* F NE years ago on September 27th there began what has been for me, and for many others, the most exciting experience of our lives. Anglicans,...
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Rearmament : A Labour View
The SpectatorS IR DAVID KELLY has accurately described the policy of Soviet Russia when he says that it " pursues a constant, unchanging, long-term strategy of hostility to the non-...
SERMONS RIGHT AND WRONG
The SpectatorIn almost all discussions on the decrease in Church atten- dance one reason given is the quality of the sermons and their failure to meet the spiritual needs of today. This...
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The Influence of Winter on Russian Poetry
The SpectatorBy BRUCE RENTON I WAS writing a thesis, " The Influence of Winter on Russian Poetry." If I had finished it they would have made me a Doctor of Philosophy. Only I never did. I...
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MARGINAL COMMENT %
The SpectatorBy HAROLD NICOLSON / T is difficult to assess the relative values of expert opinion and the fresh eye. A man who has lived for long in the same country, who has for years been...
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MUSIC
The SpectatorFEW visiting operatic companies can have had such a bad Press as the Italians at the Stoll Theatre; and it is worth considering for a moment what has caused this unusual...
THEATRE
The SpectatorTwo melodramas: one with a sharp point, the other with no point: both With enormous force.—When it came to the scene in George Bellak 's play in which four drunken bravos of the...
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The SpectatorART OF a recent exhibition a wit said that it was not social realism but socialite realism. Looking Forward, arranged by Mr. John Berger at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (very...
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Hunter's Song
The SpectatorFrom the German of Eduard Morike, 1837. Fair the footprints in the mountain snow When the birds their lofty errands go. Fairer prints my love's beloved hand Writes in letters...
tirbe Opertator, Otptember 25, 1852
The SpectatorPUBLICATIONS RECEIVED A Dirge for Wellington. By Martin F. Tupper, Author of Proverbial Philosophy. This hasty effusion will not rank among the happiest of funereal poems. The...
CINEMA
The SpectatorJumping Jacks. (Plaza.)—My Wife's Best Friend. (Odeon.) THIS is slap-happy slapstick week, a week in which I, had I the choice, would pass by with some speed the cinemas'...
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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 137
The SpectatorSet by J. .M Cohen A Prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered fora verse translation in the same metre and following the same rhyme scheme, of the following Ode by...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 134
The SpectatorReport by C.S.W. A prize of £5 was offered for rhymes on the lines of " What are little girls made of ? " An average bag of entries of average merit. Perhaps because this was...
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After Harvest
The SpectatorIt is " after harvest " now, and they are doing those things about the farms that are done when harvest is in and the rickyard tidy, the Dutch barn full. " Time to have a wander...
Potting-up Cuttings
The SpectatorFor potting-up cuttings, use a light sandy soil containing a good proportion of grit. When the cuttings are in, do not water too lavishly or damping-off will result,...
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorEXPERIENCE should have taught me to keep away from bees, for, with the best will in the world to remain calm and keep my arms still, I always reach a point where I must drive...
Worm and Fly
The SpectatorFor a long time I kept my eye on the two men who were perched on a rock and screened by trees on the other side of the lake, a place among the best in Wales for its trout. There...
Wild Duck Walking across the boggy ground, we found it
The Spectatorimpossible to see the lake, for it was fringed with grass and reeds, Nit as we got nearer there was a great commotion among the reeds. Thirty or forty mallards rose, swung round...
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The Southern Sudan
The SpectatorSup,—Mr. Edward Atiyah in his well-written article shows that he understands something of the present dilemma of the — Southern Sudanese. . Whether they will " accept...
W.E.A.
The SpectatorSnt,—It was surprising in the B.B.C.'s disappointing discussion on this subject on September 19th to hear Mr. O'Brien claiming the Workers' Educational Association as a...
Copy-cats
The SpectatorSi",—Miss Noel Streatfeild is surely a little too pessimistic in her conclusions. I would suggest that if there is any villain of the piece it is the magazine in question—with...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorThe League and Corfu SIR,—May 1 be allowed to intervene in the controversy over the Corfu incident in 1923, since I was leading the British delegation to the League at the time...
The Saar
The SpectatorMONSIEUR Le DIRECTEUR,—L'article du journaliste allemand Fried- laender, public dans votre numero du 29 ao0t, propose comme solution " provisoire " au probleme sarrois la...
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Sm, — Mr. Asquith would surely have said that Darcy's Christian name
The Spectatorappeared twice in Pride and PPejudice. If Janus cares to turn back ten chapters from that in which Fitzwilliam Darcy signs his letter, he will find the name in the last...
Sul,—The answer to Mr. Asquith's question is, I think, rather
The Spectatormore intricate than Janus suggests. According to Saxo Grammaticus, the Danish historian of the twelfth century (on whose Historia Danica Shakespeare bases his plot and not on...
Mr. Asquith's Questions
The SpectatorSIR,—Janus, in your last issue, raises afresh the problem (on which my father used to cross-examine his off-spring) why, on the death of the elder Hamlet, the young Hamlet did...
Honorary Degrees
The SpectatorSIR,—The discussion in your correspondence columns on Lambeth degrees provokes me to write to you on the subject of honorary degrees. It is apparent to most of us that far too...
SLR,—Surely there are two quite different questions involved ?
The Spectator(1) Remarriage of divorced persons in Church views is inadmissible, because they have broken the Church's marriage laws, and also because, if one partner is still alive, it is...
Marriage, Society and the Church
The SpectatorSta,—In a letter in your issue of September 19th, Mr. Shirley asks if an innocent party who has obtained a cllvorce " is to be regarded as an outcast sinner for the rest of his...
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK The Middle Ages The Shorter Cambridge
The SpectatorMedieval History. By the late C. W. Previte-Orton. (Cambridge University Press. 2 vols. 55s.) Is it a sign of a new sobriety of learning, a thirst for solid factual knowledge,...
Wales That is Gone
The SpectatorRECOLLECTIONS of the quiet charm of the author's earlier book Welsh Country Upbringing brought a sense of pleasurable anticipation on receiving his second volume of...
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Kipling Mishandled
The SpectatorA Choice of Kipling's Prose. Selected by W. Somerset Maugham. (Macmillan. 15s.) IT was to be hoped that when an acknowledged master of the craft of story-telling, such as Mr....
The Analysis of Stendhal
The SpectatorTo the Happy Few: Selected Letters of Stendhal. Translated by Norman Cameron. (Lehmann. 21s.) Stendhal par lui-meme. Images et textes presentes par Claude Roy. (Aux Editions du...
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Det ea rcnce or Reform? •
The SpectatorIT is not easy to convey in a review the quality of this book. It is obvious and true to say that it is essential to everyone who wants to know how the English prison system...
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Othello de nos Jours
The SpectatorI HAD thought it was my own ingrained distaste for the diary form in published works that for a fortnight at least, when I should have been reading it for review, kept me at...
Switzerland Through the Years
The SpectatorA Short History of Switzerland. By E. Bonjour, H. S. Offer and G. R. Potter. (Clarendon Press, Oxford. 35s.) Tins book satisfies an acute and long-felt need. The British...
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Russian Dominance
The SpectatorRussia and her Colonies. By Walter Kolarz. (George Philip. 25s.) IN Russia and her Colonies, Mr. Walter Kolarz has achieved a remarkable tour-de-force. He has produced, with...
Philosophy of History
The SpectatorThe Nature of Historical Explanation. By Patrick Gardiner. (Clarendon Press, Oxford. 10s. 6d.) THE purpose of philosophy, according to Wittgenstein, is the logical Kla rung of...
The Enlightenment and Germany
The SpectatorGeoffrey Cumberlege : Princeton University Press. 40s.) As a good translation of an important and difficult work this book is to be welcomed. Cassirer's Enlightenment was...
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French Dress in the Middle Ages
The SpectatorDR. JOAN EVANS in her preface describes this book as " a brief résumé of the subject illustrated by reproductions of photographs of mediaeval works of art." It is a résumé in...
Fiction
The SpectatorThe Nature of the Beast. By Evelyn Jordan. (Peter Davies. 12s. 6d.) The Singing Sands. By Josephine Tey. (Peter Davies. 10s. 6d.) WE 'LL take The Nature of the Beast first,...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT By CUSTOS FOR no very obvious reasons
The Spectatorthe setback in gilt-edged stocks has now degenerated into a debacle. Just as in the summer months investors were apparently prepared to give their hopes the benefit of any...
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THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 697
The Spectator[A Book Token for one gtdnea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, October 7th, addressed Crossword. 99 Gower Street,...
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