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EAST OF SUEZ
The SpectatorI N the last six months a change has come over the inter- national situation which can only partly be explained by the freer evolution of a Russian diplomacy once petrified in...
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COALITION CRISIS
The SpectatorBy our German Correspondent Bonn. E 1 OR two years now the West German Free Democratic r Party has been behaving like a debutante, who wants the glamour of the engagement ring...
THE VANITY OF PARLIAMENT
The SpectatorW HERE their corporate pride is touched Members of Parliament can be extremely childish, and the con- troversy over the 14 - day rule has shown some of them at their worst. Even...
THE TAX GATHERER
The Spectator,tom the folly of the autumn Budget to the trivialities of the Finance Bill. On Tuesday arone our legislators spent almost seven hours discussing some of the amendments to the...
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Portrait of the Week
The SpectatorM M ARSHAL BULGANIN and M. Khrushchev have continued their journeyings across India, turning up . late for appointments with a reckless abandon and pausing only to announce that...
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WHEN Mr. Peter Matthews, of the Foreign Office news depart-
The Spectatorment, questioned about the outrageous speeches which Mr. Bulganin had been making in India, said that he 'seems to be thoroughly hypocritical,' he erred on the side of...
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
The SpectatorSubscribers who are going away from home for Christmas and wish the Spectator to be sent to their holiday address, should send their instructions to the Sales Manager,...
AT LAST a leading member of the Labour Party has
The Spectatorsaid it in public : that Mr. Gaitskell is likely to be the next Leader of the Party. And who made this confident prophecy? Why, none other than Mr. Harold Wilson, who resigned...
THE Sunday Pictorial is the newspaper for the young in
The Spectatorheart. Or so it is claimed on the front page every week. By its sensationalist approach, one might judge that its directors sometimes think of it rather as the newspaper for the...
DURING THE DAYS he spent with Edward VIII, Sir Samuel
The SpectatorHoare became convinced that the King was determined to marry Mrs. Simpson. and, since he was a personal friend of the King, it is almost certain that his information weighed far...
A Spectator's Notebook
The SpectatorWE HAVE SEEN, in the past few weeks, how a legend was created about the influences supposed to have been brought to bear behind the scenes on Princess Margaret. A similar legend...
CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE
The SpectatorTELEVISION should be regarded not merely as a series of entertaining programmes but as a broad and balanced service designed to inform and enlighten as well as to entertain. ITA...
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Political Commentary
The SpectatorHow Guilty Were The Guilty Men ? BY HENRY FAIRLIE ' T HE 'Guilty Men'—so Mr. Michael Foot, Mr. Frank Owen, and Mr. Peter Howard called them; and the name and the mud have...
A DUBLIN FRIEND tells me that the Irish Minister for
The SpectatorFinance, speaking at the opening of an institution for the mentally defective, urged the need for more savings so that more funds may be made available for such worthy projects....
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Capax Imperil
The SpectatorBy D. W. BROGAN • 0 N April 17,1945, Harry S. Truman wrote to his mother and sister in Independence, Missouri, describing his arrival at the White House and the receipt of the...
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Mind We Don't Quarrel
The SpectatorBY KINGSLEY AMIS W HEN I got there the party of demonstrators consisted of three women and a baby. One of the women was the wife of B., a prominent Swansea businessman and...
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City and Suburban
The SpectatorBY JOHN BETJEMAN I RECEIVED a letter from The Tail-Wagger magazine asking me to send a picture of my favourite pet, be it dog, cat or budgerigar, enclosing particulars....
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Strix
The SpectatorPouffes Don't Count HE ultimate disadvantage [of the results of quantitative social research] is that they have little appeal to the popular reader and are thus unsaleable.'...
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Letters to the Editor
The SpectatorMiddle East Conflict A. H. &dam Cyprus Desmond Donnelly, MP, Lord Stanley of Alderley The Montagu Case Sir Robert Boothby, MP The Other Oliver Edwards John Wain Spain is...
THE MONTAGU CASE SIR,—Mr. Ian Gilmour's review of Mr. Wildeblood's
The Spectatorbook gives the most graphic and succinct account of what has become known as the Montagu Case that I have yet read. It is, as he says, a repellent story which throws a vivid...
CYPRUS SIR,—I have much pleasure in enclosing some reflections on
The SpectatorCyprus by Lord Stanley of Alderley: 'In dealing with the immediate problems in Cyprus it is of importance not to exagger- ate the gravity of events. . . . There is cer- tainly...
SIR,—With reference to Brigadier Parker's letter in your issue of
The SpectatorNovember 25: 1. I made, and make, no assumption of negligence in the British Administration of Cyprus. My words were that it has not been above reproach: a very different thing,...
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THE OTHER OLIVER EDWARDS
The SpectatorSIR,—I must try to clear up this mystery of 'the real Oliver Edwards,' since the humour of Strix's piece about him depends on his point that Mr. Edwards 'cannot be in the...
Contemporary Arts
The SpectatorPainting DERRICK GREAVES THE first thing that strikes one about some of Derrick Greaves's paintings at the Beaux Arts Gallery is their size. In his picture of a Roman girl,...
SIR,—In your issue of November 18 Mr. Francis Watson, reviewing
The SpectatorMr. Chapman Mortimer's book Here is Spain, and referring to its dust-cover, which shows a battered, deserted electricity station, asserts that the latter is 'Spanish to the last...
'RUSSIAN HOLIDAY'
The SpectatorSns,—May I draw attention to some errors of fact upon which Mr. J. E. M. Arden purports to base his review of my book Russian Holiday in the Spectator of November 11? He...
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Ehe spectator
The SpectatorDECEMBER 4, 1830 POOR HAztrrr! he was a strange mixture of shrewdness and simplicity, of kindness of heart and equivocal life. No person could be more ignorant of the world;...
Cinema
The SpectatorI DIED A THOUSAND TIMES. (Warner.)—LES DIABOLIQUES. (Cameo-Poly.)—AN ALLI- GATOR NAMED DAISY. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) THE clean, cold mountains; these are what Jack Palance, a...
Television
The SpectatorI TV, however well organised, whatever the is v eight of its top executive personalities, is "rind to have a lot of teething trouble; there's no call for anyone to feel smug...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorA Bruising. Experience BY JOHN WAIN K IPLING is one of those authors—Housman is another . example—whom people tend to read early in life, and ever afterwards overestimate,...
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Two Ladies
The SpectatorALICELLA. By Averil Stewart. (John Murray, 21s.) IT is always pleasant to see the conventional views of fami l y relationships defied. Mrs. Stewart has done this by writing a n...
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Bronte Studies
The Spectator11 ASSIONATE SEARCH. A Life of Charlotte BrOnte. By Margaret Crompton. (Cassell, 21s.) W HEN Mr. Bronte, a century ago, asked Mrs. Gasketl to write t he life of Charlotte...
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Soccer Crisis
The SpectatorurS' MANY people, forces and ideas have crossed the English Char but British eyes have been wilfully closed to a number of th Notably, the majority of those concerned with...
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Diarist and Journalist
The SpectatorTHE Doo AT CLAMBERCROWN. By Jocelyn Brooke. (The Bodley Head, 18s.) LIVING LIKE A LORD. By John Godley, Lord Kilbracken. (Gollancz, 16s.) JOCELYN BROOKE as a writer is, like...
Grammar in Ascent
The SpectatorMR. DAVIE assures his readers that he is writing 'not (perish the thought) in hopes of furnishing a new gleaming piece of critical machinery,' but more modestly just to...
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Timm is so little good criticism of Yeats and his
The Spectatorpoetry that a special number of Irish Writing , devoted to him is a worthy enterprise. tlf course, the essays it contains are a little uneven. Donald Davie's article on Yeats...
Chess
The SpectatorBY PHILIDOR Nu. 26. C. MA.NSFIEGH WHITE, 8 meo. BLACK, 5 meo. WHITE to play and solution next week. . Solution to last week's problem by Heathcote: B-R threat R-R 5. 1 . • •...
Country Life
The SpectatorBY IAN NIALL THIS is the day of labels and tags, but what a way we have come to talk about the 'over- spill' from cities and use the term, 'dormitory town,' to impersonalise...
Other Recent Books
The SpectatorMOLINTIOY : ELIZABETHAN GENERAL. By Cyril Falls. (Odhams, 21S.) CHARLES lhousrr, Lord Mountjoy, is better known in Irish than in English history as the Viceroy who finally...
THE Scorrisii COMPANION. Edited by Rhoda Spence. (Richard Paterson, 15s.)
The SpectatorDESIGNED as a `book to he congenial to the hours between waking and sleeping,' this mis- cellany of Scottish writings is the first offering of a new Scottish publisher. An...
EARTH SATELLITE. By Patrick Moore. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 15s.) AUTHOR
The Spectatorand publisher are to be congratulated on getting out so early this neat and complete exposition of all facets of the American pro- ject to hunch a series of satellites into...
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SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 863
The Spectator4 ill Heady Rome (anag.) (9). Heady reading matter among the crews (5). it i t ;mai us for the voyager's epic (6). L i lle parting kiss which I had set betwixt two — words'...
Dearest Love
The Spectator' 4 newspaper recently referred inadvertently to a 'five-point increase in the cost of loving.' 4 ssurning that a Cost-of-Loving Index is actually kept by a Ministry for...
The winners of Crossword No. 861 are: Miss. KED. °WYNNE
The SpectatorHuax xi, 10 Johnstone Street, Bath, Somerset, and Miss ELIZABETH A. MACKAY, 49 Old Craigie Road, Dundee.
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DANGERS OF MONETARY EXTREMISM
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IT is often more difficult to stop a boom than a slump. In the latter case the patient is willing to be cured : in the former he is unwilling even to...
COMPANY COMPANY NOTES
The Spectator• By CUSTOS GLASGOW, the lion of the home corpora- tions, has refused to borrow on a 5 per cent. coupon and is testing the market with a 41 per cent. loan (£5 million) at 98{....