30 OCTOBER 1959

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—Portrait of the Week— THE QUEEN'S SPEECH promised that the

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Govern- ment would deal with local unemployment, 'amend and modernise' the betting laws, be stricter with building societies, and extend the principle of indeterminate sentences...

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No. 6853 Established 1828 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1959

THE ULTIMATUM

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W E make no apologies for . . . no : that is not quite fair : we must apologise, at least to some of our readers, for devoting so much of this issue to a reassessment of the...

Serving Notice on Nehru

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D EVILISH cunning, these Chinese!' But not .just now; not on the Indian frontier. There a neurotic touchiness over strategic security, and a feeling that the world's well lost...

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James Dillon

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T HE election of the flamboyant James Dillon as head of the main opposition party in Ireland is a sign of the times. By background and inclina- tion Mr. Dillon is a nationalist...

-The BBC and Yugoslavia

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T HE letter in our correspondence columns from 'Z. Marn prompts similar questions to those the Spectator asked two years ago about the BBC's Russian programmes. How far is it...

NEXT WEEK KINGSLEY AMIS on LOLITA IAN GILMOUR on FRANCO'S

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SPAIN

Habeas Corpus

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T HE Attorney-General's attitude in the case of Andrew Mwenya has also been disturbing. It has now reached what would normally be con- sidered a happy ending; the Governor of...

Leaflet War

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T IIE two Ronald Searle cartoons on p. 582, which were dropped on Egypt during the Suez campaign, are from the collection of R. G. Auck- land.' Is it the only one of its kind?...

November the Fifth

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O NE of the many illogicalities about English law is that the chief Crown prosecutor, the Attorney-General, should have the right to decide whether cases may be taken to the...

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The Off-White Highlands

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By T. R. M. CREIGHTON T EiE angry reactions to the Kenya Government's I Sessional Paper on the White Highlands are ironical in view of how little the proposals really entail....

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A Spectator's Notebook

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Pioneers, 0 Pioneers no end. If, that is, the Communist Party is not so stupid as to forbid him to take his seat, on the grounds that no Communist can be associated with a...

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•• . of Britain

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For Eden also there was frustration, anger and resentment against Nasser. Trained as an Arabist in the old Anglo-Arab aristocratic desert tradition, Eden held to the traditional...

THE ULTIMATUM

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By ERSKINE B. CHILDERS For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools. SIR MARTIN MAR-AU. W HAT, in fact, are the 'secrets' of Suez? No one now...

SUEZ CHRONOLOGY July 26 Canal Company nationalised.

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August Anglo-French Expedition mounted, but US compels negotiation. Secret French arms to Israel. October 5 UN Security Council meets. 12 Agreement on 'Six Principles.' 13...

. . . and of Israel

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Finally, we must consider the motives of Ben- Gurion and the Government of Israel. They were, as always, a fluctuating combination of religious- historical dreams, strategic...

The attitude of France

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Let us begin with France. Th^ Mollet-Pineau Government was determined to crush Nasser, who had been supporting the Algerian nationalist rebellion since 1955—leading the strong...

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Courtship : France and Israel

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So much for the background : now for a few of the known facts. On the admission of a British Minister (John Hare in the House of Commons, February 5, 1957) Anglo-French plans...

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Eden flies to Paris

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On the morning of October 16, Selwyn Lloyd flew back into London. There was a meeting of the Cabinet, with the C1GS present; and in the afternoon Eden announced that he had...

The invasion is mounted

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What followed confirms this hypothesis. After the 16th American diplomats began reporting loss of contact with, and unparalleled evasion by, their British and French contacts in...

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The French intervene

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Before deciding, it is worth examining other aspects of Eden's denial: for example, his declaration that there was no joint Anglo-French decision about the use of French Air...

'There was not foreknowledge'

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The relations between Britain, France and Israel have now to be considered. On December 20, 1956, Sir Anthony Eden made his denial of collusion : I wish to make it clear that...

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The Ultimatum

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It is conceivable that, in the midst of last- minute fear, the Israeli Cabinet hoped that the French air cover would not be so glaringly notice- able as to ruin the 'clean...

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No joint decision

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So we reach the last questions: Did Eden tell the truth on December 20 when he said, 'There was no joint decision in advance of hostilities about the use of a veto'? He then...

The day

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So we come to the day itself, October 30. On that day Mollet and Pineau arrived at No. 10. The same day the Security Council met, and the two delegations later used their veto....

Someone jumped the gun

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'Clean victory,' therefore, vanished for Israel when Eden stood up that afternoon of the 30th in the Commons. It is easy to understand why Israeli spokesmen described the...

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Mollet and Eden

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They told Eden that it would be quite impos- sible if France alone used her veto. The two Governments had been marked by the whole world as allies in the crisis. Hundreds of...

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Double Collusion

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I believe, and all the available evidence sug- gests, that this is what happened in those extra- ordinary weeks. There was collusion. But it is best defined as double and...

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Theatre

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Disease of Violence By ALAN BRIEN I HAVE never seen a play which created its own mad, obsessed, other-world so completely as Sergeant Musgrave's Dance. Partly this is due to...

Cinema

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Sundae's Child By ISABEL QUIGLY The Five Pennies. (Plaza.)—The Wonderful Country. (London Pavilion.) DANNY KAYE'S charm is sonic- . : thing I have to take other people's word...

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Opera

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Glorified Vaudeville By DAVID CAIRNS WHAT is wrong with our two London opera houses, when you get down to it, has nothing to do with acoustics, voices, con- ductors or...

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Television

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Pull-Up for Car Men By PETER FORSTER NOT the least memorable moment last week came in one of Jack Hylton's new Rosalina Neri half-hours (A-R). Our blonde, Italian...

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THE SCIENTISTS AND THE BOMB SIR—The most fitting person to

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reply to Rudolf Peierls's article in your issue of October 16 would ba Dr. Fumio Shigeto, Director of the Hiroshima A-Bombs Victim Hospital, with whom I had an inter view when...

SIR,—The following passage, written by G. W. Russell in 1902,

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shortly after the General Election of 1900, seems to have a peculiar interest for today. Speaking of 'the collapse of our parliamentary sys- tem,' he said : That system, as...

SIR,—Mrs. Mitchison does me the honour of asking my guidance

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on a point of etiquette. Must she, A s a County Councillor, eat and drink with people she finds obnoxious? The hard answer is: yes. I am not a member of the Conservative Party,...

X MARKS THE SPOT

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SIR,-1 am struck by the way Mr. S. Knox Cunning- ham swallows every word of Mr. J. E. S. Simon's article without question despite Ludovic Kennedy's telling comment. Mr. Knox...

The BBC's Yugoslav Service 'Z. Main' X Marks the Spot

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Sir Jeremy Mostyn, Evelyn Waugh, Roderic Dun kerley The Scientists and the Bomb Ethel Mannin, L. A. Jackson Crime on the Roads Professor Thomas Wilson Telling the Patient Dr....

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REFUSED RAIL

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SIR,—I must draw your attention to an inaccuracy in your number dated October 16. This is on page 506 under the heading 'A Spectator's Notebook.' Pharos there refers to the...

TELLING THE PATIENT

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SIR,-11 Mr. Dickson Wright subscribes to 'an obscurantist medical attitude which is as old as the witch-doctor.' he is in good company. for he ex- presses the view of 90 per...

CRIME ON THE ROADS Sig,--In her valuable article on 'Crime

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on the Roads' in your issue for October 9, 1959. Lady Wootton draws attention to the inadequate use of one of, the most effective deterrents, disqualification. A possible solu-...

Sig. –Even for an age of double-think. Mr. T. Crowe's

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cold-blooded casuistry is excessively smooth. Inevitably, one thinks of Mr. Truman's letter to the city of Hiroshima about eightecu months ago, in which he said that his order...

NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AT OXFORD

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SIR.—The Campaign in Oxford University for Nuclear Disarmament has just been fined £10 by the 'Proctors.' It is unable to appeal, since the 'Proctors' are the only judicial body...

HYPOCRISY?

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SIR,—A paragraph by John Gordon in the Sunday Express on the Consett boy who hanged himself on remand begins: 'Aren't we a rather hypocritical lot?' 1 wonder if others than...

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BOOKS

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Good Queen Mary B Y CHRISTOPHER SYKES U tsrrn. recently official biographies, with a few honourable exceptions, were nothing more than compilations of edifying bosh. In the...

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Patents and Precedents

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Pyke, the Unknown Genius. By David Lampe. (Evans, 18s.) IF Geoffrey Pyke truly deserved the description 'genius,' he certainly did not deserve the qualifica- tion 'unknown.'...

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City Laughs

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EVERYONE knows that Mr. George Schwartz writes about economic and financial affairs in the Sunday Times and makes people laugh. But what people and at whose expense? This...

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The Fourth Man

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Memoirs. By Lord Woolton. (Cassell, 30s.) THE Conservative Party now looks more firmly established in the favour of the British electorate than any previous political faction...

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The Real Reason

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The Bank of Time. By George Friel. (Hutchin- son, 15s.) JOHN HERSEY is that rare bird, a novelist who is also a writer. Almost as rare, The War Lover is a novel with a point to...

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Night Life

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Streetwalker. (The Bodley Head, 12s. 6d.) LET me make the point at once : Streetwalker is not an addition to the tedious list of books by experts in specialised fields—racing...

Further Along the Line

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Gunner at the Western Front. By Aubrey Wade. (Batsford, 18s.) IN August, 1914, Henry James wrote to an old friend : 'Black and hideous to me is the tragedy that gathers, and I'm...

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HOW NOT TO INVEST OVERSEAS

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By NICHOLAS DAV4NPORT LAST week it was announced in the financial press that one a the big City property companies— City Centre—was going to invest $25 million (nearly £9...

INVESTMENT NOTES

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By CUSTOS MHE market tussle in equities between profit- ' takers and new buyers goes on amid an unprecedented volume of business, and broker- age houses will not be able to...

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COMPANY NOTES

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"THIS wonderful summer has packed the holiday I camps, and Pontin Camps shareholders who took up their rights issue in February will now be doubly pleased with the results to...

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Roundabout

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The Marrying Kind By KATHARINE WHITEHORN A great proportion of the marriage bureau trade is with the over-forties. In lower age groups; the position is different : there are...

SOLUtiON OF CROSSWORD 1059 AL ROSS. - I Melik0. 5

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Diviner. Menial. 10 . Lintoges. It Cor analuis. 12 Stab. 13 Lea. 14 Chain letter. 17 Chi.t.sc Press. 1 0 Amy. 20 Roll. 22 Train bands. 26 Andorra. 27 Herring 28 Elapsed....

SPECI A I OR CROSSWORD No. 1061

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ACROSS I The lair muse (8) Music triumphs—al the latent (6) Encountered previously by the sound of it in a manner of speaking (8) 11) Bacon,. Madam? You'll find it rather hot!...

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Consuming Interest

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The Horseless Carriage By LESLIE ADRIAN A few of the cars from these countries are only on show and are not yet available here. Others are available, but it is worth your while...

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Wine of the Week

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MULLED wine goes well with mists, mellow fruitfulness and the general misery of an English autumn. What's more, it's easy to make. There is only one basic rule, which is that...