4 DECEMBER 1942

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WAR AND PEACE

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W ITH the Prime Minister saying less than could be desired in his public speeches about international organisation after the war, the references to that subject by the Foreign...

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EXORCISING WANT

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W HATEVER may be its ultimate fate, Sir William Beveridge's Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services is a great State document. With spaciousness of outlook it combines...

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A SPECTATOR 'S NOTEBOOK

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T HE appointment of a new Viceroy of India is evidently to be expected almost at once. The expectation seems to be that the choice will fall on Lord Cranborne, and there will be...

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RUSSIA IN THE NEW PHASE

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By STRATEGICUS HE Prime Minister on Sunday night touched on the nature of the present problem of the Allies. It is impossible to ignore fact that we have entered a new phase...

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THE UNITY OF FRANCE

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By PIERRE MAILLAUD T N the eyes of the world the Epic of Toulon seems to have I eclipsed a very important document which reveals as much of the French frame of mind as this tale...

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A PLANNER'S DEFENCE

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By SIR CHARLES BRESSEY The challenge of the exhibition has been successful, and the trumpets of laissez-faire have been vigorously sounded by champions on the other side, as one...

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THE TRAINING HOLIDAY

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By KURT HAHN (Headmaster of Gordonstoun School) I am convinced we have no right to ignore the warning on the subject of physical education contained in the six findings...

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FUNERAL WASTE

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By PROFESSOR HERMANN LEVY Yet from a social point of view all this is of secondary importance. Indeed, its social incidence may be said to be confined to the fact that the...

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MARGINAL COMMENT

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By HAROLD NICOLSON O F all the changes which I have witnessed in the last quarter of a century, of all the alterations in material and spiritual values which those twenty-five...

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ART

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Edward Burra. At the Redfern Gallery. EDWARD BOMA'S pictures have many of the qualities of eighteenth- century oratory. They are impressive in scale, hold the attention, are...

THE CINEMA

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" Inside Fighting Russia" and " The Pied Piper." At the Odeon. —" Inside Fighting China." At the London Pavilion.—" The Magic Fish." At the Tatler. " Talk of the Town." At the...

THE THEATRE

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" The Way of the World." At the Mercury Theatre.--" Henry IV, Part II." At the Westminster.—" Mixed Relations." At the Ambassadors. IT was the Phoenix Society that, after the...

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A WORLD TO REBUILD

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SIR,—Your correspondent Sir Watford Selby, in expressing his agreement with the point in your recent article with regard to the nations of Central Europe, states that "...

I.U. AND SULGRAVE

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SIR,—In reply to the Editorial Note at the foot of my letter in your last issue: I was the person who handed the cup to the late Dr. Sibley and who made the presentation speech...

RELIGION AND THE SCHOOLS

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—That the clergy and the laity regard Christianity from different points of view is no new discovery. It is inevitable, and advantageous, that they...

SIR,—I do not follow Colonel Mozley's distinction between Christian dogma

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and Christian ethics. Christian ethics must mean the rules for conduct laid down by Christ, summed up in the Commandments to love God and love our neighbour. How are people to...

ULSTER AND EIRE

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Sm,—I have read with interest the article in your issue of November 13th by Julian Huxley entitled " Celtic Twilight." Why should there be such grovelling to Eire? Has she not...

Sta,—Your correspondent P. A. Shaw appears to be ignorant of

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the fact that there is an agreed syllabus between the Church of England and the Free Churches. But the point is, not the imparting of religious know- ledge, but the translation...

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A SUBJECT FOR THOUGHT

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SIR,—Attention has already been drawn in these columns to the report of the trial of twenty men at the Newport Assizes for homosexual offences. During the hearing it was...

THE WEARING OF HATS

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SIR,—We are told in the Press that the House of Commons announces that the Lord Chancellor is consulting the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, and the President of...

THE COUNTY BADGE SCHEME

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SIR,—Now that the subject of the County Badge Scheme has once more become the object of discussion, I hope I may be excused for offering these views which are those of a boy...

TREATMENT FOR VENEREAL DISEASE

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SIR,—I was astonished and shocked by your paragraph in " Notes of the Week," November 13th, welcoming the Regulation 33b on venereal disease, and I was further surprised that in...

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HORATIAN JOURNEYS

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SIR,—It would have amused Quintus Horatius Flaccus to know that Hitler had been making two of the three journeys referred to in Ode 22, Book 1, simultaneously, the crossing of...

METHODS OF TEACHING

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SIR,—With regard to the talk by the President of the Board of Education, broadcast on November 24th, we, as members of the staff of a large secondary school, beg to register a...

THE RABBIT

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SIR,—In a recent number, Sir W. Beach Thomas " dares to ask " whether we desire the total extinction of the rabbit. The answer from the Minister of Agriculture, who ought to...

COUNTRY LIFE

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IN the shire of Hertford, which has been singularly successful (thanks chiefly to some large landowners) in keeping its rural charms, some residents are distressed that it is to...

JAPONICA JELLY

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Sta,—A few weeks ago Sir William Beach Thomas wrote in The Spectator that the fruit of Pyrus Japonica made very good jelly. Having a large crop of fruit on our shrubs this...

OURSELVES AND CHINA

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SIR,—Mr. Tangye probably deemed it kinder not to quote Lin Yutang in support of his statement that the average Britisher who has spent a lifetime in China would not be we:corned...

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Jeans' Jigsaw World

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Physics and Philosophy. By Sir James Jeans. (Cambridge University Press. 8s. 6d.) SIR JAMES JEANS'S reputation as a lucid expositor of physical ideas will not be lowered by his...

BOOKS OF THE DAY

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Climate and Destiny Climate and the Energy of Nations. By S. F. Markham, M.D. (Oxford University Press. tog. 6d.) HIPPOCRATES — Or rather some member of his school—wrote a...

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Salsette Forgets Europe

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Salsette Discovers America. By Jules Romains. Translated from the French with an Introduction by Lewis Galantiere. (Hutchinson. 75. 6d.) "THE reader will open Salsette in the...

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"Miles Sapiens ,' Sword of Bone. By Anthony Rhodes. (Faber and

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Faber. 8s. 6d.) THE average war book written by a serving combatant tends all too often towards the inarticulate or the two-dimensional. How well we know them now—the modest...

Life At Sea

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Log Book. By Frank Laskier. (George Allen and Unwin. ss.) IT is a national habit to take the Royal Navy for granted, and to praise the fine work of the Merchant Navy is the...

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 193 SOLUTION ON DECEMBER 18th

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The winner of Crossword No. 393 is Miss M. FORRESTER, 63, Cluny Gardens, Edinburgh.

THE SPECTA TJR " CROSSWORD No. 195 IA Book Token

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for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week. Envelopes should be received not...

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Fiction

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Ah Well. By Jack B. Yeats. (Routledge. 6s.) The Lads of the Village. By Hugh P. McGraw. (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6d.) THE poor dear 'thirties are treated with harsh impatience by...

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By CUSTOS • APART from a further fall in insurance shares, stock markets have taken the Beveridge plan remarkably well. Not that the City is completely satisfied with the...