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Lord Attlee Alan Brien Roy Dewar Ronald Duncan Graham Hough
The SpectatorMary Holland Bertrand de Jouvenel Humphrey Lyttelton David Rees
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Portrait of the Week
The SpectatorMR. NEHRU DIED, aged seventy-four: 'it is like the fall of the Himalayas for us,' ran one of many sorrowing Indian comments: Sir Alec Douglas- Home flew to the funeral: and,...
Star-Spangled Manners
The SpectatorN the next few years the United States is 'going to need all the sympathy and help from her friends and allies that she can get. At home, for all the progress with the Civil...
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End of a Chapter?
The SpectatorFrom MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK I is ten years to the month since the Supreme 'Court of the United States decided that, as a nation, America owed it to the Negro child for him to...
The Death of a Leader
The SpectatorN EHRU is dead. And with him something intangible and irreplaceable dies. Even after Goa and the Chinese invasion of India had smirched the image of the uncommitted man, he,...
Corn in Europe
The SpectatorPAUL LEWIS writes from Brussels: Once again the Common Market Ministers find themselves facing a deadline that is self- imposed when they return next week to the tired problem...
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Political Commentary
The SpectatorSelwyn and the Pirates By DAVID WATT y BEGIN with three predictions. The Govern- 'pent will not attempt to curb Radio Caroline and Radio Atlanta. The Government will not make...
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Public and Private Pay
The SpectatorFrom BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL PARIS A A MAIL strike is on in France at the moment, which induces me to take as my theme the fact that 'over here strikes have come to be con-...
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WELENSKY'S WORLD
The SpectatorOr, The Cops and Robbers Theory of History HE most important and revealing sentence I in Sir Roy Welensky's book* comes on the second page. Welensky is referring to Creech-...
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It was not until 1910 that Thomas entered the House
The Spectatorof Commons as member for Derby; It is characteristic of our hero that he worked closely with the Liberal in this two-member constituency, although he had fought strongly against...
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But neither God nor Mr. Holland's good sense could stand
The Spectatorin the way of Lord Beaverbrook. He had already blained the Argentinians and the Government and then dropped them in search of juicier prey. He could hardly now start be-...
typically ludicrous Beaver- brookian flourish—com- bining all the best features
The Spectatorof his papers' style. Every- thing was there—the Common Market, xeno- phobia, inconsistency and exaggeration in the cause of propaganda bordering on deliberate inaccuracy. The...
foreigner.' By this time, the newsmen of the Mail were
The Spectatorit had a new attitude to art. And from that it would immediately achieve the support of the intellectual minority who are now 'committed' elsewhere. Let the socialists go on...
Personally I would like to see a Ministry of the
The SpectatorArts stimulating municipal and county activities. And if this were done, the problem of the bored and frustrated teenager, with whom I sympathise wholly, could be overcome. Let...
Surely, if education is important, it follows that the fruit
The Spectatorof education must be important too? As things are, as one headmaster recently stated, 'our schools are producing a mass reader- ship for the Daily Mirror.' We may all be able to...
Today science is giving us the means •to live, but
The Spectatorhow we live or what we do with our lives is something art alone can teach us. Science Over a decade ago, town councils were em- powered to spend up to a sixpenny rate on the...
If the Tory Party could look at the future needs
The Spectatorof society, it would inevitably find that As if to contradict the prevailing impression, from 11 Q 11 1 1 ficiliii111111 going on, that he must be the way everyone was dead,...
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Letters
The SpectatorThe Two Worlds Professor Ritchie Calder, Sir Herbert Broadley, Olwen Battersby Catholics and Birth Control Bruce M. Cooper Freedom of the Air E. W. Ives, Lord kilmuir's Memoirs...
A new Council, such as Mr, Longbottom advo- cates. could
The Spectatordo a great deal to bring some order, at least so far as the United Kingdom is concerned, into this increasingly kaleidoscopic pattern. It would not in any way interfere with the...
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There are two answers to such suspicions. One is that
The Spectatorsome systems, like Newtonian mechanics, have been enormously successful in regions of nature far removed from the ones which called them into being. We should not remember only...
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None of this is. much consolation to the house- wife
The Spectatorwho has to pay more for her weekly shop- ping, and if the rise in prices had caused genuine hardship to the British consumer, the Govern- ment would have been duty bound to stop...
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A READER, Mr. Patrick Connell. has written to tell me
The Spectatorabout an invitation he had recently from Schwerin Research Ltd., asking him to be 'our guest at a tele- vision ' research evening.' It read as follows: 'Since we have taken the...
The extraordinary reversal of this comes only when someone has
The Spectatormanaged to break into their territory. He or she then automatically becomes a fully paid-up member of the conspiraiy. By getting the title to any job you are immediately held to...
Unfortunately, it is not always easy to
The Spectatordistinguish at first sight between serious social i nvestigations (which may well be in the public interest) and commercial market research (which can be a considerable public...
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The Spectatorx.QP also loses. Now, however, the Black queen is out of the 21 P—R 5 Kt (3)—K 4 22 P—B 6! PXP. 22 . . . KtxP; 23 BxKr. R x13; 24 K - t-1.1 4, Q-13 6; 25 R-11 1 and White wins...
APPOINTMENT OF VICE-PRINCIPAL (WOMEN STUDENTS)
The SpectatorApplications are invited for appoint- ment as Vice-Principal (women students). This is a new appointment preparatory to the first intake of women to be trained as primary school...
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The Spectator3; 2 Q—K 6. I . . Q--Kt 6 or R 7; 2 Kt—Kt 6. Good cross- checker with well-hidden key. Count Albcric O'Kelly de Galway's play is some- times considered to be less...
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The Spectator6 Pxl.' OX0 7 P—K 4 II—K I. O'Kellv comments that the sacri- nee 7 . Kt s,KP; 8 l'x Kt, Q—R 5 chi; 9 K---K 2 is unsound. • 8 let-K 2 P—Q 3 9 Kt—Kt 3 . . . White's idea is a...
Salary scale (at present under review) is £1250 per annum
The Spectatorrising to £1700 per annum, commencing salary being determined in accordance with qualifications and experience. An allow- ance is made towards travel and re- moval expenses....
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CHRONIC CATARRH has been attacked by drugs, chemicals. even surgery-but
The Spectatorthe condition remains. GARLISOL TABLETS will liquefy catarrh, purify the entire sys- tem. Harmless. Non-habit forming. Bend 17/- for 250 GARLISOL non - taint garlic tablets (6...
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The SpectatorOVERSEAS HOUSE MOVING - THE MODERN WAY. ANGLO OVERSEAS pack in pilfer proof steel strapped containers: delivers from your old door to Your new door with no intermediate...