27 JUNE 1958

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--Portrait of the Week

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T HE LONDON OMNIBUS STRIKE ended and a new Plan for Cyprus began. Yugoslavia expressed its profound indignation at the murder of Imre Nagy and his colleagues, and Mr. Nehru...

DIPLOMATIC PARALYSIS D ANGEROUS - LOOKING situations are developing in Eastern Europe and

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the Middle East, just as in 1956. The failures of British policy on that earlier occasion were so blatant and disastrous , that the results have not yet been made good. We now...

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FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1958

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Chamoun's Last Card

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By MICHAEL ADAMS T Fritte most dangerous phase of the Lebanese crisis opened on Wednesday with the depar- ture of Mr. Hammarskjold for New York. The Secretary-General had spent...

Easing the Brakes

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VIDENTLY the Government is sufficiently E, confident of the economic outlook to begin to take the brakes off industry. But it is quite rightly moving with caution. Sterling...

Pyrrhic Victory

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F OR all his tough talk. Sir John Elliot finally gave in. Indeed in the end he was almost cringing. It is arguable that he was right to make a concession over the country...

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Coat of Clay

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By RICHARD H. ROVERE New York SHERMAN ADAMS is a 'provincial politician with a flair for office management. He first met Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. He was Governor of New...

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Westminster Commentary

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'AFTER "dwelling-house" insert "or to that part of the dwelling-house, as the case may be."' Alterna- ._ tively, if you prefer, 'leave out "that section" and insert "section...

NEXT WEEK

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Summer Books Number Articles and reviews by KINGSLEY AMIS, ROBERT BLAKE, D. W. BROGAN, CHARLES CURRAN, H. S. DEIGHTON, THOM GUNN, CHRISTOPHER HILL, FRANK KERMODE, BERNARD...

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BUT THIS INCIDENT, though I hope it is now closed,

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raises once again the problem of politics on TV. As the General Election approaches, both BBC and ITV must know where they stand if they wish to cover the election on the same...

I AM SURE that at his interview with Mr. Sidney

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Bernstein Lord Hailsham presented the case of a noisy minority of Conservative back-benchers (that Granada TV has displayed anti-Tory bias) with considerable skill, but I doubt...

A Spectator's Notebook

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Paragraph 28 of the Covering Note to his Report he wrote : There, is no pattern of territorial separation between the two communities, and, apart from other objections,...

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The following item, reprinted, as they say, in its entirety, comes from the News Chronicle of June 23. I have sent word to Beachcomber. THE DUKE OF KENT is developing a taste...

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RU T HE HAS certainly not been helped by the Att orney-General. When Sir Reginald Manning- ham-Buller was asked on Tuesday if he would 'instruct the Director of Public...

I HAVE BEEN TOLD that Stalin's question about the Pope's

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military strength was addressed to Laval in 1935. In May of that year Laval went to Moscow just after the Franco-Russian mutual assistance treaty had been signed, and he is said...

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Pay As You View

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By BRIAN INGLIS in February, 1956, the Postmaster-General declared that consideration of any additional television service was being deferred for two years. When the two years...

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Royal Show Dilemma

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By ROBERT, HODGE The more one sees of it the more obvious it is that the Royal is too big and too repetitive. Next week's show covers 157 acres, exclirive of 140 a cres of car...

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Spontaneous Outburst

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By RAY TINGUE HE parade for the Queen's Birthday,' I screeched the Commander, 'will be attended by the Mayors of Chatham and Gillingham— which will be a thrill for us all...

Magenta

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By STRIX M AGENTA is, according to the dictionary, a 'brilliant crimson aniline dye, discovered ioon atter battle at Magenta in N. Italy (1859).' Though it possibly survives in...

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Roundabout

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Trotting THE FEW hun- dreds gathered under the blue- grey sky stirred from the rather uncomfortable stone- terraced seats of Woolwich Stadium and shuffled 'nearer to the rails...

Bats and Belles

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By IRVING WARDLE 'IT won't be as bad as Manchester, anyway. We hope'; said the pro- duction secretary, an imperturb- ably fluent eighteen-year-old, fully aware that he was six...

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Opera

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The Diva By BERNARD LEVIN EVERY time, before those huge, handsome, red curtains twitch and rise, one gets the feeling—proper to any opera house—that there is a miracle waiting...

Theatre

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Claustrophilia By ROBERT ROBINSON The Lesson and The Chairs. By Eugene Ionesco. (Royal Court.) —Honour Bright. By Donald Ogden Stewart. (Lyric, Ham- mersmith.)—For Children and...

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Cinem a

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The System QUIGLY BY ISABEL 11131/ 10 North Frederick. (Carlton.) 'AND so they sinned—knowingly and unknowingly—against each other and against themselves!' runs the...

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Consuming Interest

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The Small Man By LESLIE ADRIAN To prove that the small grocer can still offer as good value as the supermarket and cut-price chain store, Mr. E. A. Brooks, of the Wholesale...

Ballet

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Spreading It Thin By •A. V. COTON 'LES BALLETS 1958' is the first for- eign ballet company to visit Lon- don in eighteen months. Advance news of its activities in Europe and...

irbt 6pertator

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JUNE 29, 1833 WE Went to hear PAGANINI on Wednesday night. The concert was announced as his "last"—and probably it will be SO. PAGANINI has ceased to attract any hearers, and...

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A Doctor's Journal

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Adapt or Be Ill By MILES HOWARD A READER from Kingston asks : 'As many of the underlying causes of stress are such as cannot easily be altered, how should one adapt oneself to...

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ARCHBISHOP MAN ARIOS AND THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE

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SIR,-1 did not dissent from the general point which Dr. Benson Perkins made, but merely held that it was not the right one. I do, however, dissent from his assumption in this...

8 ASH AT ARIANISM SIR,_There is really no need for

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Mr. Legerton to w onder what was my 'main objective' in writing my l a_ t rticle on Sabbatarianism, for I stated it quite clearly. was to see whether Mr. Legerton or his friends...

Letters to the Editor

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Mr. Randolph Churchill Randolph S. Churchill Sabbatarianism Christopher Hollis, Rev. R. W. Maitland Consumers and Monopolies Jack Merricks Apology for Comedians John Braine...

APOLOGY FOR COMEDIANS

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SIR,—Mr. John Irwin's correction is more courteous than I deserve. I misremembered what he said, and also totally misunderstood him. I do apologise for My carelessness, and I'm...

FLOUNDERING ON THE VELD

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SIR,—Many readers of Mr. Edgar Holt's delightful book The Boer War, reviewed in the Spectator on June 13, will be disappointed at the rather inadequate attention paid to the...

CONSUMERS AND MONOPOLIES

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SIR,—Leslie Adrian states (June 20): 'Competition is the consumer's best friend.' As a producer, I believe it to be good business to keep my customers (the consumers) happy. If...

ISIS AND THE ISIS

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SIR,—Shame on Strix for being a complacent old man with smug views that are less prevalent in our universities than in his time! How appalling that he can turn up the 1929 files...

LAMBETH

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SIR,—Mr. Hugh Ross Williamson suggests that, when I wrote that the last Lambeth Conference 'hedged' over the issue of the Church of South India, I had overlooked its committee...

SIR,—Mr. Legerton suggests that Mr. Hollis should reread his Bible.

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I would suggest that Mr. Legerton should do the same. He has only got to turn to the Acts of the Apostles (chapter 20, verse 7) and _there he will find all he needs. We have...

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ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

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SIR,—In the course of a year the Federal German Republic, whose gold and currency reserves have reached the record total of DM 23,926,000,000, has been able to lend the World...

CATERING AT GLYNDEBOURNE • SIR,-1 read with fascinated interest the

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renewed correspondence in your columns on the food supplied at Glyndebourne. But what chiefly interests me is— how did your correspondents get to Glyndebourne? For two...

THE DOVER CAR FERRY SIR,—It looks as if Leslie Adrian

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has not travelled by the Dover-Boulogne car ferry for quite a time. That is the only explanation I can think of for his complaint last'weck that it is 'last on—first off' for...

NIGHTS OF BATH SIR,—The burgesses of Bath should be grateful

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that someone has sprung to their defence. Some of us would be more interested in reading an official re- buttal of the mass of public criticism that has accom- panied the...

BLACK AND WHITE IN RHODESIA SIR,—Your article 'Reaction in Rhodesia'

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gave the usual slant to the news from Africa. It shows the prejudice against the white inhabitant that is now expected from those in another country. May I try to explain how it...

THE CURTIS-BENNETT FAMILY

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SIR,—With the consent and co-operation of the Curtis-Bennett family, who are making available to me all existing letters and documents, I am writing a triple biography of the...

FOREIGN CURRENCY SIR,—What the Government policy is behind the ban

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on sending foreign currency by post is a complete and irritating mystery to me. Recently I returned from Canada after serving in the RCAF for three years. When my cheque came...

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BOOKS

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'Alive!' BY GEOFFREY BARRACLOUGH W E live, Albert Camus recently said, in a world in which our grand inquisitors may set up, once and for all, the kingdoms of death. Other...

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Russian Genius

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A Hero of Our Own Times. By Mikhail Lermontov. (0.U.P. : World's Classics, 7s.) The Captain's Daughter is one of the stories in which Pushkin created Russian prose. Like that...

Royal Borough

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Kensington. By William Gaunt. (Batsford, 25s.) `No other quarter of London is so consciously, hard-boiledly, shamelessly middle-class.' So wrote H. J. Massingham of Kensington...

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Golden View

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IN 1925, when agriculture in this country was at a low ebb, Leonard Elmhirst, a Yorkshireman, and his American wife bought . Dartington Hall , Estate where they planned to carry...

They That Have Power

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THE History plays amount to almost a third 'of Shakespeare's output, and the group which in- cludes Richard II, the Henry IV plays and Henry V is among his most remarkable...

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Peace Through Law

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World Peace Through World Law. By Grenville Clark and Louis B. Sohn. (Harvard and O.U.P., 60s.) No one could pretend that recent experiences in international legislation have...

American Paradise

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`INCLUDE me out,' the famous cri de caner of Sam Goldwyn, has been, very naturally, the slogan of Americans confronted with an extremely un- pleasant world. If, like Mr. Hoover,...

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The Material for Victory: Being the Memoirs of Andrew J.

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Kettle. Edited by Laurence J. Kettle. (Dublin: C. J. Fallon. 12s. 6d.) THIS is a document of considerable importance for the study of the Parnell movement. Andrew J. Kettle, a...

Diplomacy at War

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The Initial Triumph of the Axis. Survey of Inter- national Affairs 1939-46. Edited by Arnold and Veronica M. Toynbee. (O.U.P., 84s.) Allied Wartime Diplomacy. By Edward J....

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DID you know that there was an Association of Track

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and Field Statisticians? And can you think of any other sport where the spec- tators get more fun out of hearing the an- nouncement of a new record than seeing a race being won?...

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INVESTMENT NOTES

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By CUSTOS rin HE advance in the gilt-edged market has been I momentarily halted by the £6 million Liver- pool Corporation issue of Si per cent. stock 1974-76 at 974. This is...

THE LONDON INVESTOR'S FEAST

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-By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Last week the American bond prices reached a new high level for this cheap-money period. Before me is a list of American bond issues. The US Government...

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COMPANY NOTES

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W ALSALL CONDUITS has experienced an- other successful year in spite of a decline in export sales. The new Chairman, Mr. C. G. Maisey, who succeeds Mr. A. E. Read, who died...

CONFIDENCE IN ABILITY TO MEET COMPETITION

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This then is the nature of our problem, and our own accounts already show the impact of the change. We are encouraged to know that the Government are giving the subject their...

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Tortuosity in Rhyme

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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 434:. Report by Allan M. Laing Competitors here given examples of far-fetched rhymes by Robert Browning and asked to submit 12 lines (or less) of...

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 998

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Demand ? Precisely (5). 16 It's so rude to be these (9) ACROSS 1 Old cattle enclosure? It should provide plenty of shade (7) sPortsman who might appear to scale (7) An old-fa...

'Fly TWA to USA' says the advertisement (how does one

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fly a TWA, anyway?). A prize of six guineas is offered for eight lines of verse modelled on either Carroll or Lear, on improbable situations suggested by 'words' which are not...

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