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IS IT PEACE?
The SpectatorT HE temptation to approach any pacific gesture by Russia with involuntary scepticism is strong, but must be resisted. Even the technique of prefacing a paragraph of...
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The Abortive Deputies
The SpectatorNothing in Mr. Morrison's statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday on the failure of the Paris talks calls for any modi- fication of the view consistently expressed in these...
Borstal Discipline
The SpectatorThe right degree of discipline for Borstals is not something that can be well laid down in writing. It depends on the character of the officers and the boys, and must vary,...
Civil Needs and Defence
The SpectatorWhen Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Mr. Clement Davies and Mr. r Churchill successively a p pea l 1 for the issue of a White Paper on a particular subject, it . usf be concluded that the...
A Victory for Injustice .
The SpectatorCompelled by public opinion, a very healthy opinion, to give ground in the matter of Tshekedi Khama, the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations gave enough on Tuesday to...
Middle East Defence
The SpectatorThe meeting of the Defence Ministers of the Commonwealth which has been held in London was arranged early this year, before the cloud on the Persian horizon was any bigger than...
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Levelling in Education
The SpectatorA substantial section of opinion in the Labour Party seems determined, under the specious plea of equality of opportunity in education, to achieve equality by a deliberate...
AT WESTMINSTER
The SpectatorT HE Persian crisis has been irrupting on the floor of the House of Commons day after day, and each time in a more forbidding form. It has brought Mr. Morrison to the...
Church Repairs and the State In addressing the Friends of
The SpectatorBath Abbey on Monday Lord Kilmaine, the Secretary of the Pilgrim Trust, made_ two distinct but associated points, both of importance. Discussing the problem of the repair of...
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ELEVENTH HOUR IN PERSIA
The SpectatorE VENTS in Persia arc moving rapidly towards a final break- down. In his statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr. Morrison spoke of the evacuation of the Oil- fields as...
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A week or two ago I hatl to go to
The Spectatormy district post office to claim a registered letter which had not been delivered owing to my house being closed at the week-end. Having got there, I naturally produced my...
My reference last week to 'an action brought by a
The Spectatorpeer and his son against the publishers of a reference-book which had erroneously stated that the peer had no heir has brought me a reminiscence—which I have not had the...
The Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil, writing with as much severity
The Spectatoras the mutual regard and admiration in which we hold one another (how could he not admire me?) permits, insists that the borough for which he records should be spelt like that,...
I have gazed with a good deal of awe at
The Spectatorthe new complete Shakespeare which Messrs. Collins have published this week at 15s. The price is noteworthy, having regard to the quality of the. print, paper and binding ; the...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK 0 NE of the events not only
The Spectatorof the cricket year but of the Parliamentary year is the dinner regularly given, with great generosity, by Sir Stanley Holmes. National Liberal M.P. for Harwich, to the year's...
The demise of Public Opinion is an indication of the
The Spectatorway things ire going in parts of the periodical world. It Causes regret more by reason of the paper's distant than of its recent past. Under Percy L. Parker, in the early years...
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Is War Likely ?—III
The SpectatorBy MAX BELOFF* • Mr. Beloff, a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, is author of, ornong other works, The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia. p ROPHECY is a dangerous game, and the...
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Glasgow's Tenth Jubilee
The SpectatorBy D. W. BROGAN FEW weeks ago I said to one of my colleagues in Cam- bridge that I should be away in the week of June 18th because I should be at the celebration of the fifth...
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Making Ends Meet: IV
The SpectatorBy A CIVIL SERVANT I N the course of the last five in my income has increased from £350 to £900 a year, n each case after deduction of tax. During the same period my capital...
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The Flight from School
The SpectatorBy an ASSISTANT MISTRESS , S TATISTICS can be notoriously misleading. and particularly so when used as a basis for an abstraction such as that created by the Minister of...
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UNDERGRADUATE PACE
The SpectatorThe Rails Run Over the Hill By GRAHAM DUKES (St. John's College, Cambridge) M ONO observant travellers between London and Cam- bridge, Elsenham Junction, set amongst the trees...
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MARGINAL COMMENT
The SpectatorBy HAROLD NICOLSON NV HEN I hear or read statements that the time has now come when we should carry out the " democratisa- tion " of the Foreign Service, I experience emotions...
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CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The SpectatorCINEMA L'Ingenue libertine." (Cameo-Polytechnic.)—“The Lavender Hill Mob." (Odeon, Marble Arch.)—" Mr. Universe." (London Pavilion.) THE distinguished French authoress Colette...
THEATRE
The SpectatorThe Tempest. By William Shakespeare. (Stratford Memorial Theatre.) MR. Michael_ BENMIALL and Mr. Loudon Sainthill, who respectively produced the play and designed the scenery,...
MUSIC
The SpectatorTHE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at Glyndebourne on June 21st was 3 disappointment. Not only was there no outstanding voice, familiar or unfamiliar, but the whole performance lacked the...
"Come Live With Mc." By Dorothy and Campbell Christie.
The Spectator(Vaudes ALWAYS think of the authors of His Excellency and Grand National Night as unusually reliable playwrights, but their new comedy is disappointing. " New" is possibly the...
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EXHIBITION
The SpectatorNotable Documents From Private Archives. (Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn.) To one to whom it comes hard to find letters of even last week this exhibition of documents from private...
ART
The SpectatorTHR Festival sweeps on down Bond Street. The dealers, as ever, display unflagging diligence, while the Arts Council must be quite giddy keeping up to date with its transport and...
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TO ENSURE REGULAR RECEIPT OF
The SpectatorTHE SPECTATOR readers are urged to place a firm order with their newsagent Or 10 take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as unsold...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No, 72
The SpectatorSet by John Usborne A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered for an old English teacher's Poem of Revolt on "doing" either" The Lady of Shalott" or A Midsummer Night's...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 6 9 '
The SpectatorReport by N. K. Boot The frontispiece to "Elephant Bill" by Lt.-Col. J. H. Williams shows a photograph of two elephants with the following caption : " A young male calf. about...
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SIR,..—"The rather bitter tone of Mr. F. Barber's letter in
The Spectatoryour issue of June 22nd suggests that he is already aware of the answers to the two points which "perplex and intrigue" him, and is really challenaing their validity. The crux...
SlIt.-1 was interested to read the article, Making Ends Meer,
The Spectatorby a Church of England rector. As a Catholic (or perhaps I should say a Roman Catholic, to avoid upsetting some of my Anglican friends I), I find it very hard to understand why...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorMaking Ends Meet Sta.—May I submit the following comments on the very interesting and forthright letter from Mr. F. Barber, which seems to me to raise issues of paramount...
SIR—Mr. Barber asks why the middle classes are unable to
The Spectatormake ends meet on incomes "beyond the wildest dreams" of the ordinary worker. (Incidentally, is, say, the figure of £500 really beyond even the tamer dreams of a family of...
SIR.—Mr. Barber's letter gives the impression that what he calls
The Spectatorthe "working classes" (a completely meaningless and mischievously mis- leading expression, retained merely for the purpose of keeping alive class prejudice, since all of us have...
SIR. —Being a regular reader of the Spectator. I have just
The Spectatorfinished reading the third article in the series Making Ends Meet. and I have come to the conclusion your title is quite wrong: it should be How We Live In Luxury. How these...
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St. George's, Gravesend
The SpectatorSIR,—A former rector of St. George's, Mr. Haslam, a historical scholar, has left documents which are conclusive in their evidence that Princesss Pocahontas was indeed buried in...
Building Societies
The SpectatorSIR.—As one who has Professional connections with a number of building societies, some of which pay two and a half per cent, while others pay less, some of which are big while...
SIR.—Might I suggest to F. Barber that it may really
The Spectatorbe very difficult to lower one's standard of living from one to which one has been accus- tomed, to that of the worker who was reared under it and 'has so far known no other-?...
The Demand for a Peace Pact scit,--1 am getting used
The Spectatorto, but do not agree with, papers talking of "the necessity of reaimament," as, indeed, the Spectator does in referring to Mr. Jack Tanner's recent speech. I am getting used to,...
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- Is War Likely?
The SpectatorSIR.—In reply to Mr. Ensor, it is not mere " wishful thinkin g " that makes some of us refuse to re g ard war as inevitable, but the sense that, by adoptin g that attitude, we...
In the Garden The first dish of outdoor strawberries has
The Spectatorcome in from the g arden. This is always a si g n that the summer wealth is about to flow. Already raspberries are ready for nettin g , and red currants takin g on that pallor...
In the Orchards The trees now are bi g with fruit,
The Spectatorin spite of the bad season durin g the flowerin g time. At the moment it looks as thou g h the dark cherries, such as Early Rivers, will be the more abundant. My own favourite,...
COUNTRY LIFE
The Spectator" CHERRY RIPE " will soon be the cry, for the orchards of Kent are fillin g up with the caravans of the nomad pickers. We hear bursts of hoarse son g , ar g uments at midni g...
Jewish Children in London
The Spectator8,a,—Janus's comments on the care of Jewish children in the East End of London contains one serious error. Many Jewish mothers in that area and in nei g hbourin g districts do...
Hay-making The farmers are hard put to it now, br
The Spectatorhay-makin g is also in pro g ress. It is the first harvest of the year, and the most fra g rant. All holidays, all childhoods, all sweet idlenesses are comprised in that crushed...
Leaven in the Schools Set.—Dr. Lewis's g rim application of Grcsham's
The Spectatorlaw to public schools will be endorsed by many people's experience of seein g the leaven depressed by the dou g h. But cookery is also an art, and I have no doubt that bread...
The Gypsies List year a caravan of semi- g ypsies worked in
The Spectatorour near orchard. One of them had a sick baby, and for the first week or two we were busy' telephoning for doctors, makin g arran g ements with the hospital, and then en q...
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Chamberlain (Continued)
The SpectatorThe Life of Joseph Chamberlain. :1. n.. IV: :901-1903. II ) IN 1915, six months after Joseph Chamberlain's death, Mr. L. S.._ Amery was asked to write the official biography of...
Reviews of the Week
The SpectatorThe Germans in Russia Dance of Death. By Erich Kern. Translated by Paul Findlay. (Collins. los. 6d.) Jr is just ten years since the German armies, killing and burning as they...
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Berlioz to Faure
The SpectatorTHE period of French musical history with which Mr. Cooper deals is of particular interest to musicians today ; for it preserved the continuity of a tradition during a time of...
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Philosophical Essays
The SpectatorAN anthology of this kind has been much needed ; the editor and publisher have rendered a service both to the student and to the general reader in collecting in a single volume...
American Story-teller
The SpectatorStephen Crane. By John Berryman. American Men of Letters Series. (Methuen. I is.) Tics is an admirable series, and Messrs. Methuen should be given all possible encouragement to...
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Satirical Celts
The SpectatorA Celtic Miscellany. Edited and translated by Kenneth Hurlatone Jackson. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 8s.) THE new beauties revealed in this generous selection of Celtic poetry...
Banished Immortal
The SpectatorTHE. great Chinese poet Po Chil-i, the subject of L. Waley's last biography, found the works of his predecessor Li Po deficient in " feng " and " ya," which are to be...
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Fiction
The SpectatorTHIS time, Mr. Nigel Balchin turns his quizzing-glass upon.a married couple. Jill has not enough to do, and so is apt to leave small things undone. James is considerate and...
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SOLUTION TO • CROSSWORD No. 630 14 ' e 5 5
The SpectatorNE 0 , c !ILE 119 PIL1A CIE C D L T E1P e 151141C ILI Im f 1 4 P • 01.44 E_ u E S/fill e c SOLUTION ON JULY 13 The winner of Crossword No. 630 is MRS. E. V. SEAR1GHT, Scout...
THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 632
The SpectatorIA Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the Ps, correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, Yuly 10th, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street,...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS • THIS is . 3 twilight for markets. Only a whisper - of peace in Korea has suddenly brought what was a background factor in the investment equation into much greater...