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THE LOST LEADER
The SpectatorW HEN, a year ago this week, Sir Anthony Eden took office as Prime Minister, the Spectator commented that the Conservative Party existed again for the first time since 1940....
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ARMS FOR ISRAEL
The SpectatorE VERYBODY in the world except Mr. Dulles knows that a first-rate crisis is building up in, and over, the Middle East. It is painfully clear to everybody, except Mr. Dulles, not...
The Maltese Maze
The SpectatorBY CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS I N many ways the most important speech in the Maltese debate in the House of Commons shortly before Easter was that of Mr. Robert Mellish. It is not...
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Portrait of the Week
The SpectatorYou were wrong, and you will pay, Comrade Rubashov. The Party promises only one thing : after the victory, one day when it can do no more harm, the material of the secret...
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Political Commentary
The SpectatorBY HENRY FAIRLIE I RE most parents I have to decide whether my children should be vaccinated against poliomyelitis, but it is not as a parent that I wish to discuss this...
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FRATERNITY BE DAMNED. This, according to Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker,
The Spectatoris the conclusion to be reached by a Socialist-become- Cabinet-Minister when he comes to the burning question: `Should he, for instance, get on to Christian-name basis with' his...
A FRIEND of mine who has just returned from Germany
The Spectatorwas much impressed by the work of the British and Anglo-German centres there. I fancy it is not very widely known in this country to what extent these activities are financed by...
A Spectator's Notebook
The SpectatorNOT LONG after Lord Beaverbrook set foot in England the other week a new writer called 'Richard Strong' began to spread himself in the Evening Standard. His content was...
THE THEATRE, as the late Miss Stein might so truly
The Spectatorhave said, is the Theatre. I welcome the chorus of approval which has greeted the English Stage Company's opening at the Royal Court Theatre of a repertory season which will...
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The Professors Take Over
The SpectatorTo become a successful political leader in Great Britain you must be either a bishop or a bookmaker. The bishops are a distinguished lot—from Gladstone, the greatest of them...
Liberty, Equality, and Mr. Gaitskell
The SpectatorBY CHARLES CURRAN F OR the past six years the Parliamentary leaders of British Socialism have been living in a goldfish bowl. They have run out of ideas, lost contact with the...
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The Idle Rich
The SpectatorIf there is one statement of fact about post-war Britain that may be called incontrovertible it is this : the only kind of riches that incur no popular disapproval are riches...
Dogmas for Demagogues ,
The SpectatorThe Socialist professors are profoundly mistaken, I suggest, if they suppose that egalitarianism, with its concomitant of classless austerity. is likely to stir the Welfare...
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Newsprint News
The Spectator13', RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL F OR years the British press have clamoured for more newsprint. Recently the allocations have been somewhat increased and particularly for the mass...
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A Serious Matter
The SpectatorBY JOHN ARLOTT H ARD upon the first snowdrops. and weeks before the cricketers have pulled their roller from its depression in the winter mud, the first cricket books appear, in...
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City and Suburban
The SpectatorBy JOHN BETJEMAN S this is Easter week I am opening with two matters of thanksgiving which I saw in Holy Week, instead of my usual grumble about the devastations wrought by...
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The Windowless Wall
The SpectatorREEDY swine!' `Greedy swine yourself.' `Tu quoque is the sign of a fool, so you must be a fool as well as a swine.' I suppose the verbal sword-play of the schoolroom still...
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Letters to the Editor
The SpectatorCapricorn Africa Thomas Fox Pitt Edward Carpenter Judas's Service Rev. J. K. NettlelPid 'Reason and Life' A. MacC. Armstrong Jacobean Intelligence Peter Quennell Alan Hodge...
Sm,—Liberal-minded men, who are becoming increasingly unhappy at the sad
The Spectatorsituation in South Africa, will applaud the aims of the Capricorn Africa Society `to establish a society free from all racial discrimination [and] capable of enriching itself...
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE
The SpectatorSIR,—I am making a study of Religious Sym- pathy and Tolerance and should be grateful for the use of your columns to seek from your readers any examples—preferably from their...
JUDAS'S SERVICE
The SpectatorSia,—It is a pity that in his article (March 30) Mr. Hollis used the four Gospels so indis- criminately. is this due to the Encyclical Providentissimus Deus of 1893 in which...
`REASON AND LIFE'
The SpectatorSIR,—In reviewing Sr. Marfas's book Reason and Life Mr. J. W. N. Watkins seems hardly to have realised that the author was setting out to show why we in our age need to...
JACOBEAN INTELLIGENCE
The SpectatorSIR,—In your issue of March 30 we are flattered to notice that you have devoted some three inches of your valuable space to a selec- tion of extracts taken from an article on...
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Contemporary Arts
The SpectatorDodos and After TILE MULBERRY BUSH. By Angus Wilson. (Royal Court.)—TFIE COMEDY OF ERRORS. By William Shakespeare. Adapted by Lionel Harris and Robert McNab. (Arts.) ANGUS...
Regional and Romantic
The SpectatorI SUGGESTED in my previous article that Josef Herman's images of human labour (and I do not count him a Social Realist as the title of the notice stated) were beginning to...
Misnomer
The SpectatorA TROUPE of about two dozen French African Negroes appear, under the title Les Ballets Africains, at the Palace Theatre in a bill of song, dance and music by several odd...
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Desolate Sympathy
The SpectatorSPIVS. (Cinephone.) — RACE FOR LIFE. (Academy.)—SCARLET AND BLACK. (Paris- Pullman.) MOST of the week's films come from foreign parts, and the best of them comes from Italy. I...
Vie 6pettator
The SpectatorAPRIL 9, 1831 PAOANINI'S PAY.-It is said that one of , the concerts given at the Opera in Paris, by Signor Paganini, produced him I6,500f. An amateur has made the following...
Parlour Game
The SpectatorIN the days before I married I used to go away as frequently as possible, and, with my bank manager's warmest approval, to stay with friends for the weekend. Since marriage my...
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SPRING BOOKS
The SpectatorSir Robert Walpole BY L. B. NAMIER T WO themes run through the' book, intertwining as they must : the pattern of politics and the life-work of the man whose term of office as...
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Creation and Conflict
The SpectatorBY OLIVER EDWARDS G ERMAN poetry is one of the richest parts of the national heritage, though from the wish-wash served up in The Oxford Book of German Verse it might scarcely...
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Approaches to God
The SpectatorAPPROACHES TO GOD. By Jacques Maritain. (Allen and Unwin, 8s. 6d.) THE NEW MAN, CHRISTIANITY AND MAN'S COMING OF AGE. By R. Gregor Smith. (S.C.M. Press, 10s. 6d.) CHRIST AND THE...
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American Conservatism
The SpectatorCONSERVATISM IN AMERICA. By Clinton Rossiter. (Heinemann, 21s.) WHEN American writers get on to a topic there are always so many of them that the result is like an avalanche....
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alleged a 'deficiency in strength' or the lack of time
The Spectatorand transport; but, later, she was obliged to confess that her father had decided that for a 'young female' to visit a literary recluse, despite the fact that he was blind,...
Woodnotes Tame
The SpectatorFROM Dorm TO MARVELL. Edited by Boris Fo i rd. (Pelican Books, 3s. 6d.) THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT HERRICK. Edited by L. C. Martin. (Clarendon Press, £3 3s.) FOLLOWING The Age...
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North and South
The SpectatorAs Monica Hutchings takes us along the meandering Dorset .7iver. the Stour, she herself keeps up a steady flow of conversa- on. At least so it seems, for her writing is...
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Priest Militant
The SpectatorFOUR out of five books on Africa are sheer grind. Father Huddleston's book, by contrast, although it is about human misery and frustration and despair, is sheer joy. This has...
Carlota and Mancini
The SpectatorCARLOTA—THE STORY OF CHARLOTTE AND MAXIMILIAN OF MEXICO. By Princess Bibesco. (Heinemann, 13s. 6d.) CARLOTA is subtitled 'A Historical Romance,' but there was nothing...
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By Land and Sea
The SpectatorTo SEA IN A SIEVE. By Peter Bull. (Peter Davies, 15s.) The difference between the best type of British naval war memoir and the average German one is to be found in the opening...
Mendelian Merry-Go-Round
The SpectatorA GUIDE TO EARTH HISTORY. By Richard Carrington. (Chatto and Windus, 21s.) OFFHAND, I can think of no book which covers more detail in less space than this one. It starts with...
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THE PAPER CHASE. By Julian Symons. (Collins, 10s. 6d.) A
The Spectatorlively and literate detective-story writer—as it might be Mr. Symons—takes a job at a 'progressive' school to get 'material.' Author and character, between them, dredge up an...
INVASION OF PRIVACY. By Harry Kurnitz. (Eyre and Spottis- woode,
The Spectator10s. 6d.) Don't be put off by the ill-drawn wrapper ; this is a highly intelligent, light thriller, with a brilliantly ingenious motive for a curious crime, and some apt and...
MAIGRET'S REVOLVER. By Simenon. (Hamish Hamilton, 10s. 6d.) A hundred
The Spectatorand fifty pages for half a guinea seems short Measure, but it's interesting to see ,London in general, and the Savoy in particular, through Maigret's eyes : does the Metro-...
DEATH IN THE QUADRANGLE. By Eilis Dillon. (Faber, 10s. 6d.)
The SpectatorThere have been fictional murders at Oxford, Cambridge and (I seem to remember) Bletchley Universities; here, surely for the first time, is murder at a Dublin University located...
A MOST CONTAGIOUS GAME. By Samuel Grafton. (Rupert Hart- Davis,
The Spectator12s. 6d.) A more successful, if less sophisticated, attempt than Mr. Robinson's to yoke satire and the sinister, is this tale of a simple soul of a reporter who goes native in...
I WILL SPEAK DAGGERS. By Maurice Procter. (Hutchinson, 10s. 6d.)
The SpectatorAlso set in Yorkshire, also very sensible, matter-of-fact, and near to life as we know it, but this time by somebody who knows police procedure as Mr. Grierson knows the circuit...
BUTCHER'S DOZEN. By The Crime Writers' Association. (Heinemann, 15s.) This
The Spectatorcollection of fifteen English short stories gives shorter measure for a higher price. But Julian Symons is in superb form here, with his seedy little tale of pen-friends, and...
LANDSCAPE WITH DEAD DONS. By Robert Robinson. (Gollancz, 10s. 6d.)
The SpectatorThe detective is called Autumn; the college porter, Tantalum. There is a reporter by name of Bum, which—and whom—I find it hard to forgive the author (himself a journalist) ,...
Toyt own Express
The SpectatorDIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. By Ian Fleming. (Cape, 12s. 6d.) WE all think that we could write a good thriller if we tried; and when, four years ago, Mr. Fleming published his first...
It's a Crime
The SpectatorTHE SECOND MAN. By Edward Grierson. (Chatto and Windus, 13s. 6d.) It's difficult to see how, or by whom, this tale could be bettered, of a woman barrister who worries away, in...
THE JUDGE AND THE HATTER. By Simenon. (Hamish Hamilton , 13s.
The Spectator6d.) Twice as much reading for only another three bob— and the extra value isn't only in the number of pages. Of the two short novels here, one is a hypnotic account of a murder...
BUTCHER, BAKER, MURDER-MAKER. By Mystery Writers of America. (Macdonald, 12s.
The Spectator6d.) Nineteen short stories of crime and detection, in which an English writer, Michael Gilbert, shows up especially well with a neat, light tale of police ferreting, and...
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In There Fighting
The SpectatorWELFARE workers, club organisers and the police will testify that if more boys could be coaxed into the boxing ring there would be far less juvenile crime; in fact, if the young...
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New Novels
The SpectatorPHILIP CALLOW'S The Hosanna Man (Cape, 13s. 6d.) reminds Me of Lawrence : the young Lawrence of The White Peacock. There is something about this first novel of the same...
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COMPANY NOTES
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS THE long Easter account on the Stock Exchange ended on Tuesday with a firm undertone but no liveliness, except in oil shares. The favourable Budget out-turn- with a...
PRIVATE RESTRAINT AND GOVERNMENT TIMIDITY
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE next round of wage claims is approach- ing. The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers have resolved, at their annual conference, not to stand...
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..-k AMR ROOKS
The Spectatorlight hatever the diary says about sunset and ? it irtg-up time, the rooks take account of 1 1 w i n, th in gs as they actually are. I found myself walking home the other...
QUID MANURE Liquid manure is easily made by immersing sack
The Spectatorof stable or other manure in an old stern that has been filled with water. One can =, varying dilutions for all sorts of things in garden. It is particularly good for helping...
f k Country Life
The SpectatorBY IAN NIALL ONE reads from time to time of the efforts Made to acquire land and create new wild-life s anctuaries, which, from almost every point of view, are a most...
C Orklous HENS il am able to corroborate all you say
The Spectatorabout N t i '°sity in hens,' says Mr. W. A, Evershed, of g ereford. 'Among the first half-dozen we !equired after our return from India was a ol e looking, very large White...
Chess
The SpectatorBY PHILIDOR. No. 44. IL WEENINK WHITE (6 men) to play and mate in two moves; solution next week. Solution to last week's problem by Kt-Q 2. 1 P-B 4; 2 B-Kt 7. Occasionally...
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Every Picture a Story-Teller
The SpectatorSPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 318 Report by W. May Byron Competitors were invited to imagine that, as an anti-inflationary measure, advertising agencies have been asked to reduce...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 321 Set by A. M. 0. S.
The SpectatorSome time ago, American college men protested against the definition of the word 'journalistic' in Webster's Dictionary 'Characteristic of journalism or journalists; hence, of...
SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 882
The SpectatorACROSS 1 Literary definition of where the shoe- maker should stick (4, 4, 4). 9 A green patch, where much is in- tended? (9) 10 'Though the dull perplexes and re- tards'...
The winners of Crossword No. 880 are: Miss A. L.
The SpectatorDUNKLLY, 8 The Crescent, Northampton, and the Rev. H. J. LANS SMITH, 48 Cornmcadow Lane, Worcester.