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--Portrait c the Week , A s THE French plebiscite campaign moved
The Spectatorto- wards its foregone conclusion, Algerian nationaliits intensified their campaign of violence in metropolitan France. As the Warsaw talks be- tween the American and Chinese...
THROUGH ATHENIAN EYES UOLLY succeeds folly in Cyprus with the
The Spectatorpainful r inevitability of a dead march; and the situa- tion is not being helped by some recent pronounce- ments—of Mrs. Barbara Castle, in particular. Mrs. Castle's views would...
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NEXT WEEK
The SpectatorAutumn Books Number Articles and reviews by a W. BROGAN, GEOFFREY BARRACLOUGH, ROBERT CON Q UEST, D. J. ENRIGHT, GEOF- I.REY GRIGSON, THOM GUNN, ANTHONY HARTLEY, CHRISTOPHER...
Revolt' in Tibet
The Spectatorrr HE article by George N. Patterson in this issue 1 raises some interesting points. The Tibetans, Mr. Patterson asserts, have a record of two years' full-scale revolt in which...
Trade on the Mo've
The SpectatorT HE Montreal conference has turned out to be a great success. No far-reaching decisions had been expected from it, but it has in fact provoked two important changes in British...
Partnership in Adventure
The SpectatorBy PETER BENENSON Nicos1 Pr HE only redeeming feature of the present 1 situation in Cyprus is that the irrepressible Greeks retain their sense of humour. Macmillan's ponderous...
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Children Around the House
The SpectatorBy RICHARD H. ROVERE New York ONE year ago this week, the AtiA Arkansas National Guard was ordered by Governor Orval Faubus to prevent ten Negro children from attending Central...
Nigerians in Power
The SpectatorBy COLIN HAYCRAFT A PRIME MINISTER and four Premiers, a Governor-General and three Governors, some eighty delegates and their advisers from Nigeria and the Cameroons will be...
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Torquay Commentary-2
The SpectatorBald-Heads and Curly Tops W HAT we've got to do; said Distinguished Delegate Number One, 'is to get rid of that whist-drive lot on the platform.' Don't be too hard on them,'...
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I THOUGHT IT unwise of Mr. John Davis, Rank Organisation's
The Spectatormanaging director, to castigate his starlets as lazy and uncooperative; for if anybody is to blame for the silly starlet system it is surely the Rank Organisation itself. The...
THE Observer's other reason for approving of the sentences, that
The Spectator'it was important also to let coloured people see that in this country the law had no bias against them and may be relied upon to protect them as far as it can,' seems to me to...
A Spectator's Notebook
The SpectatorI CANNOT HELP thinking that the Observer will regret its defence last week of the heavy sentences passed on the nine youths who went 'nigger-hunting.' While admitting that 'four...
EITHER YOU ARE for cats or you are against them.
The SpectatorCassandra, the Daily Mirror's hard (and often) bitten columnist, is for them. Cassandra, in fact, is not quite sane on the subject of cats, like all true cat-worshippers. He has...
I WOULD LIKE to apologise to both the Daily Express
The Spectatorand Mr. Dermot Morrah for what wrote last week. I was misled by the obvious chagrin of the Express at having missed the Townsend biography into believing that its...
TWO YEARS AGO the Spectator described the opera- tion of
The Spectatorcommercial television as 'a monument to fraud.' Examining the programmes in the week of its third birthday, I see nothing to alter that opinion. Indeed, the position is now even...
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ALMOST AS SINISTER is the gradual growth of practices which
The Spectatorare designed to deceive the viewer. It is not wholly unreasonable that the per- formers in quiz games should be given some in dication of the range of subjects on which they may...
How to Win an Election
The SpectatorBy DESMOND DONNELLY* rTIFIE Labour Party meets this weekend ' at 1 Scarborough for what is almost certainly its last conference before the General Election. It knows that it...
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Our Dancing Daughters
The SpectatorBy A. V. COTON THE business • of training for ballet involves a certain mystique. But there are also cruelly hard facts which determine h o w many girls can step on even the...
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Unrecognised Revolution
The SpectatorBy GEORGE N. PATTERSON Darjeeling T rTI HE official United Tibet Organisation, Chul-Ka Sum, has recently sent out an appeal and a manifesto to every country in the world, two...
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Roundabout
The SpectatorRippers producer Anthony Hinds, 'but in- stead of that a servant comes out, straight through the window and into the moat. He fishes himself out and they throw him in again....
Theatre
The SpectatorA Shock in the Dark BRIEN B y ALAN Garden District. (Arts.) IT is hard to imagine a Tennes- see Williams play which isn't about Sex with a capital S. Thomas Lanier Williams...
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Television
The SpectatorThe H Symbol By PETER FORSTER THE corpses at Belsen lie stretched in rows; the fatal mushroom billows up in the Pacific; maimed PoWs hobble piteously home; an orphaned child on...
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Cinema
The SpectatorSwamp Level By ISABEL QUIGLY The Defiant Ones. (Odeon, Leicester Square.)—Rockets Galore. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) — The Left-handed Gun. (General Release.)—A Certain Smile....
rbt spectator
The SpectatorSEPTEMBER 28, 1833 Ton Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Military and Naval Appointments will disappoint those who had flattered themselves with the...
Advertising
The SpectatorBottom Dropping Out B y MARGHANITA LASKI 'A CONSUMER demand which owes its origin to artificial stimulation . . . is an unsure foundation for prosperity. It might give way.'...
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Consuming Interest
The SpectatorPlastics in the Home By LESLIE ADRIAN has largely eliminated the chore and dish-drying. This, with the polythene bowl and sink strainer, has, I have suddenly noticed, made...
Music
The SpectatorScotched Festival By DAVID CAIRNS Money is a language which, one would have thought, the city fathers of Edinburgh needed no special tuition to understand. Persuade them that...
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A Doctor's Journal
The SpectatorSlipped Disc By MILES HOWARD N OT long ago a patient of mine made good his escape from an uncongenial job byllIness of a kind that was, to me, unusual in such con-...
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ADAM BEYOND THE STARS
The SpectatorSIR, —Mr. Alan Brien's article on science fiction is excellent stuff—the more so since most of it consists of ideas originally propounded in the Introductions to my own three...
ENGLISH IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA
The SpectatorSIR,—False premises must lead to false deductions. Of course, if Mr. Quentin Pope believes we argue just from experience in Singapore his arguments are likely to display a...
THE CANKER IN OUR MIDST
The SpectatorSIR.—Though long deterred, by considerations of delicacy, from referring publicly to a subject which must be naturally repugnant to all decent people, 1 feel that the time has...
Letters to the Editor
The SpectatorThe Notting Hill Sentences John Vaizey Loyalties Ltd. Sir Half ord Reddish The Canker in our Midst Jocelyn Brooke Adam Beyond the Stars Edmund Crispin Moral--and...
LOYALTIES LTD.
The SpectatorSIR,—In your leading article of September 19 you say, 'It is better to be disloyal and dishonoured than dead.' I am appalled that a once responsible journal should preach such...
MORAL—AND LITERARY—STANDARDS
The SpectatorSI R,—A recent review in the Spectator of a novel , that was highly recommended by it induced me to obtain and read this. I do not propose to give the book an advertisement by...
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PURGING INTELLECTUALS
The SpectatorSIR,—To show why Professor Empson's account of the • controversy in, Encounter appeared misleading would be a lengthy task, and one which would be out of place in your columns....
THE MONARCHY AND THE COMMON WEALTH
The SpectatorSIR,—Mr. Christopher Hollis deserves congratula- tions on his realistic discourse and review of Un- doubted Queen (Spectator, September 12). He is quite right in saying '. . ....
FESTIVAL HALL EXHIBITIONS
The SpectatorSIR,—Pharos asks why an interest in music should be considered a necessary prerequisite for being allowed to see the pictures displayed in the Exhibition Suite of the Royal...
AMERICANA ON TV
The SpectatorSIR,—Your television correspOndent, Peter FOrsier, remarks that 'the BBC at least keeps its Americana to the less ' obtrusive early-evening times.' 1 am afraid that this remark...
AFTER THE PARTY SIR,-1 judge from some observations in his
The Spectatorthought- ful review of my book that Mr. Arden and I must have met in some previous existence—perhaps he was a King's Messenger in Sofia when 1 was a Com- munist slave. I am, of...
HOUSING COLOURED PEOPLE
The SpectatorSIR,—The recent racial disturbances have made widely known the terrible social and physical condi- tions that exist in some parts of London. It should be emphasised that people...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorThe Age of Boredom By ANTHONY HARTLEY n NE of the more depressing features of British J culture today is a shortage of sages. On the death of George Orwell that peculiar...
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Marine Creatures
The SpectatorTHE Sea of Cortez is an old name for the Gulf of California, a long, narrow, treacherous body of water. In the spring of 1940, John Steinbeck, to- gether with a biologist...
Nest of Puritans
The SpectatorReformation and Reaction in Tudor Cambridge. By H. C. Porter. (C.U.P., 52s. 15(1.) THis is a big book. Formally it is local history of antiquarian interest. In fact its theme is...
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King Psephos
The SpectatorThe Study of Political Behaviour. By D. E. Butler. (Hutchinson, Its.) CONTRARY to its author's intentions, most readers, I suspect, will find this a depressing little book. The...
, Three Women
The SpectatorThe Diary of 'Helena Morley.' Translated by Elizabeth Bishop. (Gollancz, 18s.) NOTHING is more characteristic of Mary Slessor's indomitable and eccentric spirit than her cure...
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Homage to George Patton
The SpectatorFEBRUARY 8, 1945; the biggest British artillery barrage of the War in the West launched Opera- tion Veritable, designed to destroy the German forces between the Rhine and the...
Reporting India
The SpectatorIndia Changes! By Taya Zinkin. (Chatto and Windus, 25s.) Tits is by far and away the best book to put into the hands of anyone who wants to find out What has happened, and is...
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For Academic Ears
The SpectatorA Friend in Power. By Carlos Baker. (Faber, 16s.) „ CARLOS BAKER is Woodrow Wilson Professor of English Literature and chairman of his department at Princeton. Professor Ed...
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THE RANK STORY
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Ts the film industry a dying one? Mr. John Davis, the brains be- hind the Rank Organisation, of which he is managing director, flatly denies it in an...
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LOMPANY NOTES
The SpectatorUALCAST has almost doubled its profits for NC the past year, confirming the favourable reports given last July and November by the chairman, Mr. J. E. V. Jobson. It will be...
SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,011
The Spectator'Solution on October 10 ACROSS 1 A smile-on the face of the tortoiseshell? (6) 4 Nonsense is on the rise; ask the crammed (6, 2) 8 'Beside the - in the floods?' (William...
INVESTMENT NOTES
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS HE bull movement has now carried the in- dustrial share market through the index point -192-which ruled before the raising of Bank rate to 7 per cent. a year ago and...
SOLUTION OF CROSSWORD No. 1,009
The SpectatorACROSS. - 1 Velocipede. 6 Abed. 10 Cramp. 11 Loyalties. 12 Henrietta, 13 China. 14 Perquisite. 16 Chic. 18 Amen. 20 Sour grapes. 23 Tiger. 24 Chandlers. 27 Right-hand, 28 Noggs....
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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 450 Set by James S. Fidgen Regional
The Spectatorstamps have recently been issued for use in Scotland, Wales. Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands—hut none have been issued for England. The usual prize of...
Lunatic Lyrics
The SpectatorSPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 447: Report by R. Kennard Davis The usual prize Was offered for not more than sixteen lines of verse addre.ssed to the Moon on the occasion of attempts...