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Portrait of the Weekâ MR. DULLES arrived in Britain and
The SpectatorMr. Macmillan thought of going to Moscow, a general strike took Place in Malta and aparticular strike was narrowly averted in Dagenham, and the Government an- nounced that it...
PRISON BOGEY
The SpectatorO F all government departments, the Home Office is most likely to pay exaggerated defer- ence to something called 'public opinion.' Even those Home Secretaries who take office...
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Macmillan On Ice
The SpectatorA FTER ' Stockton-on-Tees, Moscow? Mr. Macmillan looks like becoming quite a gad- about. It would be nice to hope that the Prime Minister would make more of an impression on the...
Building Balances
The SpectatorT HE growth of the gold and foreign exchange reserves, and the strength of sterling during January, exceeded the best expectations, and showed conclusively how greater...
Boring Holes
The SpectatorBy our Industrial Correspondent R ESTRICTIVE practices and demarcation dis- putes are subjects which consume a lot of ink in a year. People like Mr. Ted Hill call them 'the...
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Padded Figures
The SpectatorBy RICHARD TN September of 1952, General Eisenhower, at 'the height of his first campaign for the Presi- dency, met with the late Senator Robert A. Taft in New York, and there...
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Westminster Commentary
The SpectatorQUESTIONS this week have elicited the startling information that the world is now revolving more slowly than it used to. This sinister indication of the decline of the West (and...
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IT IS AN admission of failure, but the case for
The Spectatorneutral umpires in Test matches now seems to me unanswerable. After one has made all the ritual Pious noises about the difficulties of an umpire's job and about how the man on...
A Spectator's Notebook
The SpectatorTHE SILLY SEASON, I suppose, will now be with us until the election, but we are unlikely to be given a worse example of political inanity than the row over the survey 'of public...
IN OUR correspondence columns this week Mr. Douglas Woodruff says
The Spectatorthat 'Courts of Law are the proper places where the legal fate of books should be decided,' and that Lolita should not 'be lifted out of the reach of the law, by having literary...
MR. WOODRUFF asks if I had forgotten that a distributor
The Spectatorof Lolita was found guilty of publish- ing an obscene libel in 1956. I had-not forgotten, but am unable to see how those prosecutions are relevant. Mr. Woodruff can hardly...
PUBLISHERS' CIRCULARS are notoriously enthu- siastic, but I think Jonathan
The SpectatorCape overdid it with a hand-out on a new book about atomic radiation. It began : 'The recent setting-up of a Tissue Bank in this country (a scheme supported by the Medical...
THERE IS MORE to be pleased about on this side
The Spectatorof the Atlantic in Senator Fulbright's succession to the chairmanship of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee than that this influential position should have fallen to the...
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HAVE SAID some harsh things here in my time about
The Spectatorcommercial television, and 1 expect I shall say them againâor things of the same sort. So it is pleasant to be able to congratulate the Granada organisation which, and not for...
Politics or Technology?
The SpectatorBy OLIVER STEWART A /ATION and politics are in a desperate grapple. The air transport engineer proposes, but the politician (not necessarily the one who sits in Parliament)...
A FORMER London editor of the Manchester Guardian used to
The Spectatorsay that his favourite headline, which he claimed to have seen in an evening paper, was: ALLEGED WEST-END CLUBMAN'S FATAL FALL OVER CAT preferring it to his own paper's :...
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Malaise in India
The SpectatorBy L. F. RUSHBROOK WILLIAMS New Delhi S INCE speech is still free â and very free â in India, it does not take anyone who knows the country long to discover that there is...
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Theatre
The SpectatorA Schoolboy in the Revolution BRIEN By ALAN No schoolboy was ever afraid of a revolution. It is the externalisation Of ' his own re- pressed fantasies. Whatever the revolution...
Roundabout
The SpectatorFoot-loose `A-ONE: A-TWO: a-cha- cha-cha' said a passing voice with determined cheerfulness. The couples stamped and simpered She was quite right. The instructors came in a...
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Music
The SpectatorEuston Road Festival By DAVID CAIRNS A CORRESPONDENT recently took me to task for complain- ing about the feebleness of the January programmes, and in particular about the...
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Cinema
The SpectatorThe Lin-Italian Woman By ISABEL QUIGLY Fortunella. (Cameo-Poly.) THE latest bulletin from Uni- talia, the organisation that sends us news of Italian film production in the...
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Television
The SpectatorMid-Atlantic Accent By PETER FORSTER IN America, from whence duty and my battered liver at last bade me return, critics can pre- view and therefore pre-review many programmes....
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Consuming Interest
The SpectatorCars From Europe By LESLIE ADRIAN IF your sturdy British con- science allows you to think of buying a foreign car, will you be making life unnecessarily complicated for...
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A Doctor's Journal
The SpectatorThe Eyes Have It By MILES HOWARD A COLLEAGUE in ophthalmic practice writes to say that after years of working with patients sent up because of headache, she is coming round to...
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Beards and the British
The SpectatorBy STRIA W HEN I was a boy there was a game called 'Beaver.' Except that it cost nothing to play and had rules which were simple to the point of inanity, it had little to...
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THE PENSIONS DEBATE
The SpectatorSIR,âI want to take issue with Taper's comments on the Pensions debate. First, he expressed the view that it was 'vieux jete to hope. that 'an election-year debate on pensions...
`Lolita' Douglas Woodruff, Derek Parker Censorship of Plays Richard Findlater
The SpectatorThe Books Bill Sir Alan Herbert Censorship in Ireland Oliver Edwards The Pensions Debate R. H. S. Grossman, MP Meeting the People Silvan Jones Papal Infallibility I. L. A....
CENSORSHIP IN IRELAND
The SpectatorSIR,âI have just made the discovery that opinions ex- pressed by the Dublin censor may be effective even outside the area--the Twenty-six Countiesâin which his writ runs....
CENSORSHIP OF PLAYS
The SpectatorSIR,âPlays written before 1743 are not, as Pharos supposes, immune to censorship. The Lord Chamber- lain can ban the production of any play produced before 1737 (when the Act...
THE BOOKS BILL
The SpectatorSIR,âI thank you for the kindly support that you and your writers gave to my entrance on the Harrow scene. But may I offer a correction to your remarks upon my exit? You say...
SIR, - --On May 23, 1949, Mr. Tom Dribcrg, during Question Time
The Spectatorin the House of Commons, asked the Attorney-General `what action he proposed to take in regard to the novel The Naked and the Dead.' Sir Hartley Shawcross then told the House...
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PAPAL INFALLIBILITY SIR,âPharos's thoughtful comments on the possi- bility of
The Spectatoran (Ecumenical Council make heartening reading for those who have the interests of a united Christendom at heart. But I wonder whether he does justice to Anglican...
LITTER
The SpectatorSIR,âI -waited sadly for the axes to fall on Taper' neck, stuck out so gallantly on behalf of the little individual liberties which we are losing swiftly now by law, bye-law ,...
DERRIERE-GARDE
The SpectatorSIR,âMr. Hcyworth's letter hardly furthers the cause he advocates. Nci great discernment is required to declare that much of the contemporary music played in London is...
Sla,âPharos states that his proposed solution of the problem of
The Spectatorpapal infallibility 'is not likely to gain wide support.' One can see why. If the present Pope were to declare ex cathedra that he is not infallible, he would tacitly admit ka)...
MEETING THE PEOPLE
The SpectatorSIR,--4 was with Mr. Gaitskell during part of his recent visit to North Wales, .and I should like to say that your editririal comment on this sort of activity was wide of the....
ROADS TO NOWHERE
The SpectatorSIR.â It was good to find someone with original ideas about transport breaking through the barrier of authoritarianism, as Ian Nairn did. But is his thesis not also a form of...
JOHN GORDON
The SpectatorSIR,âMy twelve-year-old god-daughter Lolly is pining for an autographed picture of John Gordon. Would any of your readers be prepared to 'exchange such a relic against three...
SIR,-1 agree with much of what Mr. Peter Heyworth says.
The SpectatorBut- the fact remains that a laudatory notice of an ill-attended concert, however heart-warming it may be to the promoter, is not a negotiable instru- ment when it comes to...
THE MIDDLE EAST SIR,âAggressive intentions against Israel were voiced by
The SpectatorNasser for many Years before she, like Britain against Hitler, decided that since attack was imminent, she would forestall it rather than passively await it. Since Britain...
Vie ippettator
The SpectatorFEBRUARY 8, 1834 THE literary world has just escaped from the imminent danger of having a cherished mystery revealed. We are happy to find that the problem of the authorship of...
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BOOKS
The SpectatorRomantic and Heretic? BY F. R. LEAVIS T HE doctrine of 'impersonality' that was referred to the other day in the Spectator as still a major force in the literary culture that...
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Alexandrian Poet
The SpectatorThe Voyage of Argo. By Apollonius of Rhodes. Translated with an hitroduction by E. V. Rieu. (Penguin Books, 3s. 6d.) cover of this book reproduces the Pistoxenus Painter's...
Recusant and Metaphysical
The SpectatorALABASTER (1568-1640) had an interesting career, oscillating rapidly between the English Church and Rome; but hitherto no one has thought it worth the trouble to edit his...
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Old-Fashioned Freedom
The SpectatorHavelock Ellis: A Biography. By Arthur Calder-Marshall. (Hart-Davis, 30s.) An Artist of Life: A Study of the Life and Work of Havelock Ellis. By John Stewart Collis. (Cassell,...
Crown Witnesses
The SpectatorWHEN, exactly one hundred years ago, Samuel Smiles published his famous bookâ`the art of achievement illustrated by accounts of the lives of great men'âtwo of his crown...
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Portrait of 'Failure
The SpectatorNo Love for Johnnie. By Wilfred Fienhurgh. (Hutchinson, I5s.) ⢠Ar the Labour Party Conference in Brighton last year, I was coming down the stair's after the morning...
Sick?
The SpectatorNORMAN LEVINE'S account of a return journey to his native Canada in 1956 makes Miller's Air- Conditioned Nightmare read like an USIS hand- out. The author sails across the...
Kinds of Contraband
The SpectatorThe Tortoises. By Loys Masson. Translated by . 16s.) Fee ⢠Fi Fo Fun: - A Book of Fairy Stories. By Osbert Sitwell. (Macmillan. 15s.) The Losers. By Clifford Irving....
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Wyndham's Way
The SpectatorThe Powers Behind the Prime Ministers. By Sir Charles Petrie. (MacGibbon and Kee, 21s.) `EXCEPT the married state, there is none in which so great a confidence is involved, in...
Founding Fathers
The SpectatorIF one of the problems of writing the life of either Jefferson or Hamilton is that they were compli- cated, in some ways even devious, characters, one of the difficulties in...
SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 1,030
The SpectatorACROSS 1 Aid in learning to hold the tongue? (4-4) 5 Jolly tar for a period? (6) 9 Faint in civil defence (5-3) 10 Depart but might have been quartered in confusion (6) 12 Thy...
SOLUTION OF CROSSWORD 1.028
The SpectatorACROSS.-1 Mi.kwood. 5 Hamm 9 Momentum. 10 Scarab. 12 Iridal. 13 Brassier. IS Metallurgist. 18 Pitch and toss. 23 Conspire. 24 Stitch. 26 Raisin. 27 Painters. 28 Signet, 29...
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Pas de Trois
The SpectatorThe Three Graces: The Legends and the Truth. By Serge Lifer. (Cassell, 21s.) THIS account is no part of the ballet-popularising literature that floods out of publishing houses...
Wheatley Militant
The SpectatorStranger Than Fiction. By Dennis Wheatley. (Hutchinson, 25s.) Stranger Than Fiction is a collection of Dennis Wheatley's war papers; and the story of how he came to have any to...
Great Cries of Horror
The SpectatorThe Life and Times of Frederick Lemaitre. By Robert Baldick. (Hanish Hamilton, 25s.) His father died when Frederick Lemaitre was nine years old. He followed a variety of...
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THE MARKET AND THE UNIT TRUST
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT IN the prospectus of the latest Unit Trust the sponsors very wisely remind the small investor that any general decline in Stock Exchange prices, even one...
INVESTMENT NOTES
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS T HE steam has gone out of the equity share market and not unnaturally gold shares and gilt-edged stocks are moving up. The new Barbados loan established one premium...
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COMPkNY NOTES
The SpectatorI NTERNATIONAL COMPUTORS AND TABULATORS is the new name for the mer- ger between British Tabulating Machines (Hol- lerith) and Power-Samas Accounting Machines. This was...
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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 469 Set by Allan M. Laing
The SpectatorNext to November, February is probably the ',lost unpopular month in the British year. Will competitors attempt, for the usual prizes, to show February plausibly in the best...
A Noisy Sickroom
The SpectatorSPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 466: Report by J. M. Cohen The usual prize of six guineas was offered for a translation of Cbassignee.s. sonnet: Malade je couchois sur la chambre...