30 NOVEMBER 1951

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Success in Korea

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The sudden cessation of ground fighting in Korea has jolted attention away from the Panmunjom talks, but those talks must inevitably become the main centre of interest again...

TOWARDS DISARMAMENT

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/ .14 offering to enter on Four-Power talks with the United States, France and Russia on disarmament, the British Government has given one more pledge of the practical sincerity...

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Japanese Outlook

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The 33 Labour Members of Parliament who voted on Monday against the Japanese Treaty Bill appear not to have troubled to think whether their opposition was really necessary. They...

Cutting the Oil Cake

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Dr. Moussadek has duly secured his vote of confidence from the Mejlis, but in this connection " confidence " is the wrong word to use for the Persian people's sentiments towards...

Dr. Adenauer's Visit

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The German Chancellor can count on a warm welcome on his arrival in London next week. There is every reason why liOnour should be done him in view of his long and distinguished...

The Gaullist Contribution

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That the largest political party in France believes that the French plan for a European Army either means the end of the French Army or else is a piece of trickery is a...

The Home Guard Again

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There were no particularly sensible reasons why the House of Commons should stay up all night debating the Home Guard Bill. The last Government, under a flimsy and superfluous...

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Tshekedi in London

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Tshekedi Khama has arrived in London for discussions with Lord Ismay, the new Secretary for Commonwealth Affairs. No new arguments can be expected in the troubled dispute over...

Freer Housing

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The effect of Mr. Harold Macmillan's statement on Tuesday, increasing from one-fifth to one-half the proportion of the hous- ing allocation that may be built by private...

AT WESTMINSTER R. HERBERT MORRISON told Mr. Churchill during the

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1945-50 Parliament that he was prepared to give him lessons in the art of Opposition, and at that time the Conservatives were certainly not making a brave showing. When the 1950...

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A EUROPEAN ARMY ?

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T HERE will be no sound basis for understanding between Great Britain and the United' States till a great many more Americans recognise, what intelligent Americans - hav'e...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK I S there really no one in authority

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in the office of any popular paper who realises the disservice that is being done to the Royal Family by the current mania for plastering the papers with pictures of the Queen...

The price of various journals continues to advance. This week

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Picture Post, which was originally 3d. and quite recently 4d., has moved up from 5d. to 6d., increased costs being, of course, the reason. No reference is made in the current...

If Mr. Brendan Bracken's intention to resign his seat is

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carried into effect the House of Commons will lose a very picturesque figure and a very pungent speaker. His last office was a brief tenure of Admiralty House, but it was as...

Mysterious things happen to current coin. People often wonder why

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there are not more shillings about. The Deputy- Master of the Mint (the Chancellor of the Exchequer is the Master, but he doesn't do much minting himself) in his annual report,...

Roman Catholics in high places have not been altogether happy

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in their utterances of late. Nothing could be more profoundly unhappy than the statement attributed to Dr. Downey, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool, who on Saturday...

How much more agreeable amenities across the floor of the

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House of Commons are than asperities—and how much less frequent. Monday's interchanges on the Yorkshire Electricity Board scandal were a model to perpetuate. Referring to his...

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India at the Polls

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By H. R. VOHRA* N OW that India's first free elections on the basis of adult franchise have begun, a new democracy is about to be born. At one stroke India, through her new...

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U.N.O. Growing Up

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By RICHARD SCOTT Paris. LREADY .three weeks of this sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly have passed, yet only during the past few days has this inevitably...

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Quis Coordinabit . . . ?

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We're the Co-ordinators, And we are the schemers of schemes, Super-administrators And clearers of bogged-up streams ; Not planners but plan-integrators, Commanding functional...

Design for Marriage

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By HUGH LYON* T HE real trouble about people who want to be happily married is that they don't start soon enough. It is not just a matter of taking thought before getting...

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Europe in Flight

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By BRUCE RENTON T HE town was full of them—lost-looking creatures, ragged and distinctly foreign, people who had crossed three or four frontiers and worked in labour camps all...

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The American University

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1113y J. G. LOCKHART TOUR of two months round some of the leading universi- ties of the United States discloses one element that sometimes ruffles the surface of Anglo-American...

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TO ENSURE REGULAR RECEIPT OF

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THE SPECTATOR readers are urged to place a firm order with their newsagent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as unsold...

UNDERGRADUATE PAGE

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Shaw, But Not Certain By ALAN DURBAND (Downing College, Cambridge) T , HE discussion arose while I was trying to snatch an illegal sleep behind the forty-horsepower engine,...

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MARGINAL COMMENT

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By HAROLD NICOLSON S NOBBISHNESS, when managed with modesty and taste, is a delightful quality. I dik not mean that all the varied species of snob are agreeable or interesting:...

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CINEMA 46 I 'Want You." (Leicester Square.)—" The Light Touch."

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(Empire.)—" My Favourite Spy." (Carlton.) I Want You, a fine and strangely affecting film directed by Mr. Mark Robson, who directed that rather finer and more affecting picture...

CONTEMPORARY ARTS

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THEATRE "The Moment of Truth." By Peter Ustinov. (AdelphL) THE Marshal, a nonagenarian dotard who is nevertheless still a national hero, is trundled out of retirement in the...

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In the 'Nineties

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A London doctor of medicine writes me on the theme that " a healthy soil produces a healthy nation." He tells me that his father's farm of 100 acres, old fashionedly husbanded,...

MUSIC

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MANCHESTER has now completed the restoration of its famous Free Trade Hall, and has baptised it with nine concerts. Two of them were given by the Hamburg Radio Symphony...

Wild Hunters

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With what regret I found dead in one of my rat-traps not the villain of the piece which had been stealing my potatoes but a full-grown stoat spruce in chestnut and white !...

The Game - Keeper's Gibbet Of all the traditional countrymen fading out

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of the contemporary scene I deplore the gamekeeper the least. What a barbarous exhibition the decomposing corpses of the " larder "! His absence not only gives a chance of...

COUNTRY • LIFE

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I wAs drawn magnetically for one last look at the autumnal finery of the south-western Chilterns before winter's defoliation replaced colour with form. -I found myself at the...

In the Garden

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Sir David Russell writes to ask me by what means I can maintain heavy crops of healthy fruit without spraying or artificials. I have kept geese in my orchard over many years for...

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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 91

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Report by A. D. C. Peterson A prize of f5 was offered for a Ministry of Education circular explaining why boarding pupils at maintained grammar schools pay Is. 3d. for their...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 94

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Set by Lewis Petrie A prize of f5,. which may be divided, is offered for a Christmas greeting to any two of the following : the Income-tax Collector, yowl M.P., your Secretary,...

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Ethiopia Today

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)31a,—The importance of Ethiopia in the pattern of North-East African politics, little though it is realised, makes anything which improves our relations with it very valuable....

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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The East-West Problem ISJR, — In his letter, Major-General Richard Hilton asks four questions. (1) Was I satisfied beyond all shadow of doubt that I and other members of the...

Behind the Age-Limit

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sm,—It is true that the introduction of the age-limit by the Ministry of Education was based on the recommendation of the Secondary Schools Examination Council—" an unpolitical...

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66 Heloise " SIR,—The irresponsibility of many critics in dealing with

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the grave responsibilities of those who make and present new plays to the British public is something too serious to be dealt with in anger. But your Mr. Tynan goes one step too...

The Pope and The Child

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SIR,—There are cases occurring in the practice of many doctors when it becomes obvious that on account of an intercurrent disease both mother and child will die unless the...

"Zbe 6pettator," Robentber 29t1j, 1851

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[From a review of Oxford University Statutes.] As, the [new] statute was only passed in 1850, it is impossible to speak of its effect ; but it shows that, whatever may have...

Apples for Market

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SIR.—Mr. Massingham touches on a perennial problem which ought to be investigated thoroughly, when he writes of a Herefordshire farmer selling " impeccable dessert apples and...

44 The Library of Great Painters 55

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Sut,—Might I draw your attention to an error in Professor Pevsner's review of our three new art books in the Spectator of November 16th. Professor Pevsner states that " these...

Life and Years'

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Sut,-=Professor R. E. Tunbridge has written a most comprehensive survey in Life and Years: to add a further point may appear ungracious. While the unskilled worker presents a...

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BOOKS OF THE WEEK

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Palace Memories SOME sharp criticism has of late been levelled at the publication of confidences by royal servants. The majority of courtiers have no access to political...

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Jews in London

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The Sephardim of England. By Albert M. Hyamson. (Methuen. 35s. NESTLING among warehouses on the edge of Houndsditch within the City of London lies Bevis Marks; the cathedral...

Lansbury

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The Life of George Lansbury. By Raymond Postgate. (Longmans. 2 Is.) THIS is an admirable biography. Written with a narrative skill enriched by a genuine affection—and despite...

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Queen and Minister

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MR. FULFORD'S book is short and straightforward, in accordance with the aim of the series in which it appears, but it is on the level both of the importance and of the...

One World

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EACH of these three books in its way produces additional or con- firmatory evidence of the immense progress made in recent years in the technique of creating and organising...

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Fiction

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The Dram-Shop (L'Assommoir). By Emile Zola. Translated from the French by Gerard. Hopkins. (Hamish Hamilton. 'Es.) The White Horse. By Elsa Triolet. Translated from the French...

Owing to the Christmas postal arrangements, subscribers who wish to

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change their address at any time during the Christmas holidays mufst notify the Subscription Manager not later than Tuesday, December 4th.

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THE autumn , number of The Cornhill is

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marked by two contributions of importance. One is an intimate account of Toulouse- Lautrec by his cousin, Mlle. Marie Tapie de Celeyran. Relationship does not blind her to the...

Shakespeare. . By George Ian Duthie.

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(Hutchinson's University Library. 7s. 6d.) Shakespeare's Prose. By Milton Crane. (C.U.P. : University of Chicago Press. 2is.) DR. DUTHIE, Molson Professor of English at McGill,...

Shorter Notices

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SIR CHRISTOPHER LYNCH-ROBINSON followed on t* lines of family tradition by acting as Resident Magistrate in Ireland for many years during the old regime. His father was the...

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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By CUSTOS AFTER their heavy buffeting markets have entered a more tranquil 'phase. For the time being, at least, selling has abated and although there is no sign of any...

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 652

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THE " SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 654

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(A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, December 11th, addressed Crossword, 99 Gower Street,...