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NEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorS O dangerous has been the latest French crisis that it is still too early to say whether it will end with even the outward appear- ance of a recovery. Having abandoned their...
No Progress at Lancaster House
The SpectatorThe fact that Mr. Molotov should have seen fit to suggest that the Foreign Ministers should submit, within two months, proposals for a German peace treaty based on the decisions...
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Fiat Justitia
The SpectatorThe Second Reading of the Criminal Justice Bill found the House as a whole in agreement on all essentialsâa welcome change from the acrimonious controversies which some recent...
Reduced Capital Cuts
The SpectatorIn view of the fact that the reduction of capital investment by £2oo,000,000 announced by Sir Stafford Cripps over a month ago was generally regarded as insufficient there can...
Human Rights
The SpectatorThe second meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which opened at Geneva on Monday, will, it seems, find the same difficulty in achieving agreement as other...
Indian Uncertainties
The SpectatorBad news from India in the last few days has been satisfactorily scarce, but whether conditions there represent an uneasy and evan- escent peace or the transition to a period if...
Interim Aid
The SpectatorAfter a slow, pernickety debate of the kind to which European students of American politics are now accustomed, the United States Senate put on a spurt last Monday and suddenly...
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Nationalisation and Bureaucracy
The SpectatorThe spirited attack made by Lord Lindsay of Birker, speaking as a Labour peer, in the House of Lords on Tuesday on the passion for centralisation in the different nationalised...
Goodbye to the Basic
The SpectatorFrom last Monday motorists may only use their cars if they have been granted a special allowance of petrol, and they may use them only for the specific purposes for which that...
AT WESTMINSTER
The SpectatorT HE Speaker, happily and safely restored to us from his visit to France, reported briefly but becomingly to the House on Monday. He referred to the applause with which he was...
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NEW PATHS FOR PALESTINE
The SpectatorT HE New Zealand representative in the General Assembly of the United Nations said in the debate which preceded last Saturday's vote in favour of the partition of Palestine that...
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Anything that needed to be said about the three by-elections
The Spectatorso far declared, and a good deal more, was said in last Friday's Forum by two M.P.s and two ex-M.P.s who, considering that the talk was supposed to be unscripted, were...
* * * * There are some rare people in
The Spectatorthe world who, by their integrity, public spirit, humanity and unassuming dignity, leave everyone who meets them the better for the contact. They are all too few, and the death...
A SPECTATOR 'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorS 0 there is to be a by-election at Wigan as well as at Camlachie. There is no likelihood of Wigan playing Labour false. The majority is so large that it may possibly be...
The first thing to remember about Sir Oswald Mosley is
The Spectatorthat what he wants above all things is publicity, and some of the daily papers which are most opposed to him are very much too ready to give him what he wants. I am not at all...
Being at the moment cut off from access to records,
The SpectatorI cannot say definitely how long it is since Oxford numbered more undergraduates than Cambridge. The tendency in recent years is sufficiently demon- strated by the fact that the...
It is unusual for extracts from the proces - verbal of the
The SpectatorFrench National Assembly to be reproduced in the Journal of the House of Commons (an official publication whose very existence is un- familiar to most people) but it was most...
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SUSPICION IN PAKISTAN
The SpectatorBy BRIGADIER DESMOND YOUNG I F the Governments of India and Pakistan are to prosper or even to survive they must find means of working amicably together. This is so obvious to...
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REVOLUTION VACCINATION
The SpectatorBy JEAN-PIERRE GIRAUDOUX Paris. A FORTNIGHT ago, while the French Press seemed more con- cerned with Princess Elizabeth's wedding than with the fall of the Government, the...
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THE TEACHER'S HIRE
The SpectatorBy F. R. HURLSTONE-JONES T HE terms of the proposals of the Burnham Committee with reference to the salary scales of teachers in primary and secondary schools are, as usual,...
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TROTSKY ON STALIN
The SpectatorBy G. B. THOMAS ROTSKY'S monumental study of Stalin was only two-thirds I completed when he was assassinated in 194o. The work has been finished and translated by Charles...
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INDIAN ART
The SpectatorBy DOUGLAS BARRETT T HE Exhibition of Indian Art opened at Burlington House under the auspices of the Royal Academy on November 29th. It is planned on the same scale as the...
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THE NEW FOREST
The SpectatorBy WALTER TAPLIN A NTIQUARIANS must have their fun. They no doubt anticip- ated plenty of it when the Report of the New Forest Com- mittee appeared last week and it was made...
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MARGINAL COMMENT
The SpectatorBy HAROLD NICOLSON I HAVE often felt that of all languages the English language must be the most difficult to learn. Even as our political institutions and our social manners,...
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CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The SpectatorTHE THEATRE Private Enterprise." By St. John Ervine. (St. James's). This is a play about the liberty of the individual, a theme tackled only incidentally by Shakespeare. It...
MUSIC
The SpectatorTHE chief musical events of the week have been Slavonicâthe complete performance of Smetana's Mâi Vicar under Rafael Kubelik on November 26th and the evening of...
THE CINEMA
The Spectator" When the Bough Breaks." (Gaumont, Marble Arch Pavilion).â"I Walk Alone." (Plaza). When the Bough Breaks is about mothers ; about childless women who are natural mothers,...
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In my Garden A most useful plant, the dwarf Plumbago
The SpectatorLarpentz, more pleasingly but less frequently called Leadwort, has excelled itself. The beautiful blue flowers, very slightly empurpled, were flourishing in mid-November, and...
ART
The SpectatorTHERE are three large new landscapes among the other paintings by Victor Pasmore at the Redfern. In them the particular yields yet more ground to the general, and, when it seems...
County Variations How widely the counties, or even the parishes,
The Spectatorof England vary! In some of the Home Counties during this strange year residents have lamented a total absence of mushrooms. They have passed a year without tasting the most...
COUNTRY LIFE THE number of skilled observers in some parts
The Spectatorof England is now so greatâand it continues to increaseâthat a strange visitor or a new habit in a resident bird has little chance of avoiding detection. The counties differ...
Spring Promises Some of our fruit-growers are forecasting a wonderful
The Spectatorseason of blossom next spring. Their grounds of expectation are that fruit-buds for the most part are formed in early autumn, and were more than usually encouraged by the sunny...
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SEEMING TRIVIA
The SpectatorSm,âYour comment upon the London hotel strike is opportune, as is your reminder that this strike was aggravated by the interference of agitators patently inspired by political...
Sta,âIn his letter, W. G. Hargrave Thomas suggests the need
The Spectatorfor an international conference of Christians, to discuss political issues. We should like to bring to your notice the Westminster Conference to be held in London in January,...
CHRISTIANITY IN WORLD AFFAIRS
The SpectatorSm,âI have read with sympathy and interest the letter of the Reverend W. G. Hargrave Thomas dealing with the need for a world conference of Christians. Another gathering of a...
⢠LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorSHORTAGE OF TEACHERS Sm,âSince January, 1947, the staff of this school has been short of teachers owing to a series of unfilled vacancies. In July, 1947, I reported to the...
ACCEPTING THE IRON CURTAIN ?
The SpectatorSm,âMay I draw your attention to the fact that the title The Future of Europe in your last issue does not correspond with the contents of this excellently written article ? I...
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EMPLOYMENT FOR DISPLACED PERSONS
The SpectatorSts,âMany British people have demonstrated a willingness to offer employment as domestic servants to women from the displaced persons' camps of Germany and Austria. Perhaps...
GERMANYâBRIDGE OR BATTLEGROUND "
The SpectatorSts,âWithout wishing to seem ungrateful for the thoughtful and generally favourable review of my book, GermanyâBridge or Battleground, which appeared in your issue of...
PARSON AND PERSON
The SpectatorStst,âJanus asks, " What is a parson ? ", and answers rightly, guided by the Oxford Dictionary, that he is a rector. The Cambridge Dictionaryâ that of Dr. Skeatâthrows...
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
The Spectatorsm,âI must protest against Rawle Knox's misrepresentation of propor- tional representation. In the first place there is no such thing as pro- portional representation in...
MUSSOLINI AND MAZZINI
The SpectatorSIR,âMay I thank Miss Wiskemann for her courteous reply to my letter, and add one further comment ? Mazzinian societies are now lifting their heads once more in Italy, and...
IGNORING MOSLEY
The SpectatorSta,âDuring the recent disturbances at Ridley Road wise counsel was offered to Jewish people whose hearts were pierced by a shaft of fear ; they were advised to stay away, for...
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Failure of a Mission ?
The SpectatorSpeaking Frankly. By James F. Byrnes. (Heinemann 21s.) MR. BYRNES, during a great part of his life of distinguished public service, was what the Elizabethans called an...
BOOKS OF THE DAY
The Spectator" The Times " Out of Joint THE history of The Times is the history of Englandâand of much else besides. That fact makes this volume in one aspect remarkable. It spans a...
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Heresy in Lisbon
The SpectatorHugo Gurgeny. By Mary Brearley. (Cape. 9s. 6d.) " The city of Lisbon, as seen from the deck of a ship entering the harbour, presents a very fair prospect, and on a morning in...
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Years Between the Wars
The SpectatorFlAht to Live. By Robert Boothby. (Gollancz. 21s.) ROBERT BOOTHBY, member of Parliament, journalist, broadcaster and lecturer, has written an alive, arresting and provocative...
A Great English Painter
The SpectatorSamuel Palmer : The Visionary Years. By Geoffrey Grigson. (Kegan Paul. 42s.) " 0 ! BLESSED BIOGRAPHY," Samuel Palmer turned from imagining the amusement of Sir Thomas More and...
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Thomas Mann
The SpectatorEssays of Three Decades. By Thomas Mann. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. (Seeker and Warburg. 21s.) THOMAS MANN speaks of Goethe as representative of those five hundred years...
Harry of England
The SpectatorWHAT is a proper Englishman like ? Well, first of all he is to be found only in England, for abroad he has a sour face, detesting as he does all foreigners, and this sour face...
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Fiction
The SpectatorTHE chief problem of the historical novel lies in the dialogue ⢠it is not so much a matter of whether or not to use obsolete and archaic words as of the " run " of the...
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" THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 454
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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD 452
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS GONE are the days when by a mere waving of the Treasury wand gilt-edged prices could be set on a rising course. In its present mood of depression the market has paid...
Shorter Notice
The SpectatorWalter Howard Frere, Bishop of Truro. By C. S. Phillips and Others. (Faber and Faber. 16s.1 Walter Howard Frere, Bishop of Truro. By C. S. Phillips and Others. (Faber and Faber....