6 JULY 1944

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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A FTER a prolonged and not very inexplicable silence Hitler has regained his voice. His funeral oration over General Died contained indeed no reference of any consequence to the...

The Strikes in Denmark

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That the power even of German savagery is on the wane is illustrated by the concessions the Nazi authorities have been com- pelled to make to the strikers of Copenhagen. The...

Anglo-French Agreement

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Every forward movement of the Allied Forces in France—and at any moment this may be on a dramatic scale—makes it more urgent that agreement should be reached about the position...

Candidate and Platform

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In his address to the Rebublican Convention accepting nomination as Presidential candidate, Governor Dewey contented himself with a broad statement of the spirit in which he...

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Sir William Beveridge on Employment

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Sir William Beveridge's forthcoming Report on Full Employment is, he tells us, ten times as long as the Government White Paper on Employment—which does not necessarily mean that...

The World Monetary Conference

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The International Monetary Conference has opened at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in an atmosphere of good will, the keynote being struck by Mr. Henry Morgenthau, as chairman,...

In Upper Burma

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The campaigns in Upper Burma and on the Indian frontier have been going favourably for the Allies, but the interposition of immense mountains prevents success in one area from...

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THE M.O.I. AND AFTER

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HE Ministry of Information is a testimony to the capacity of men to learn and to, progress. The Press Bureau, Crewe ouse (concerned., with enemy propaganda) and other similar...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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T HE effect of the German debacle in Russia is literally unimagin- able. I, at any rate, have failed to imagine what the end of it can be. The Russians are not far wrong, if...

At a luncheon given by the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers

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on Tuesday, " Sir Frederick Handley Page, the aircraft manufacturer, who is Master of the Company," replied to the principal toast. So admirably is epitomised the evolution of...

I do not know E. A. Adumua, Esq., but I

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should very much like to, for he possesses a conglomeration of qualities which must come near being unique. My knowledge of Mr. Adumua is derived from a brief appreciation off,...

Since the Prime Minister will have made a statement on

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the subject of the flying bombs between the writing of this paragraph and the reading of it, there is clearly little that I can say with advantage here. The task of deciding...

The story of how, in General Eisenhower's now historic words,

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"Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, began landing allied armies on the northern coast of France," will be an astonishing record of co-ordination and precision...

Nothing could be better than that the County of Cornwall,

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con- sidering how to, commemorate one of its famous sons, should con- sider founding a scholarship, bearing Q's name, " at Oxford or Cambridge." But there a delicate question...

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" FREEDOM OF ACTION "

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By STRATEGICUS APS are as delightful as they are deceptive, and if anyone wishes to savour all the delight and deception in a single 1p, there can scarcely be a better chance...

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CHINA'S SEVEN YEARS WAR

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By G. E. HUBBARD C HINA'S eighth year of war with Japan is about to open not too auspiciously. The Japanese are again rampant in south-east China ; they have taken...

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WHAT TO TELL GERMANY

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By DAVID THOMSON T is an extraordinary fact that the British public is almost com- pletely in ignorance of what we are telling the Germans as hey totter towards that collapse...

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DOCTOR AND PATIENT

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By GORDON MALET T HOSE who believe in the collective unconscious would perhaps trace the fear of illness back to the days of• primitive man, when the only available explanation...

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ON ACTIVE ,ERVICE

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(TO THOSE AT HOME As seagulls, wheeling gracefully astern, Where now for irony days there none have been, To sailors who for some assurance yearn • Give proof the land is...

MEN INTO OFFICERS

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By UNWIN FLEMING W O.S.B.—War Office Selection Board to the well informed, just plain " Wosbe " to lesser breeds—is the goal of thousands of young servicemen today and also,...

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It is from this dominant position of moral and practical

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necessity that Professor Hayek trains his batteries upon the massed tanks of planning. His barrage is concentrated and severe. Our planners, he contends, do not desire to...

The justification of individualism is both moral and practical. "

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Morals," writes Professor Hayek, " are of necessity a phenomenon of individual conduct. They can exist only in the sphere in which the individual is free to decide for himself...

The weak link in Professor Hayek's formidable chain of argument

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is his contention that, owing to the close interdependence of all economic phenomena, it is impossible to stop planning just where one would wish. According to him, the moment...

MARGINAL COMMENT

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By HAROLD NICOLSON F EW books published since the war have amused so much dis- cussion as Professor F. A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. There are those who proclaim that the...

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THE THEATRE

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" Lady Julie." At the Chanticleer. THE sporadic appearance of Little Theatres in the vicinity of London is a welcome sign of a lively interest in drama, but those who are...

THE CINEMA

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" Cover Girl." At the Prince of Wales.—" Experiments in the Revival from Death of Organisms." At the Torch. Cover Girl is an excellent example of the kind of film which Holly-...

MUSIC

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Miss Rainier's Quartet LONDON is now threatened with the closing of its only remaining small concert-hall, and, unless there is some turn of fortune or intervention by a...

EPITAPH ON A RUSSIAN SOLDIER

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FIVE days we held the enemy hard pressed, And on the fifth we marched towards the West. On that fifth day beneath a blast from hell, His face towards the West, my comrade...

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THE GERMAN PEOPLE

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SIR, —Opening The Spectator, and turning as usual first to " Marginal Comments " I find myself for once exclaiming • to Harold Nicolson: " That's not fair." He believes that "...

THE UNREST IN RELIGION

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SIR, —May I be allowed to comment briefly and respectfully on Dr. Mozley's review of my book in last week's Spectator? I could not expect Dr. Mozley to accept my main...

" A PICTURE OF INDIA "

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SIR,—In your issue of June 23rd, the reviewer of Lady Hartog's book India in Outline states: " In Travancore, half the men and a third of the women are literate." These figures...

LETTERS TO

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THE EDITOR THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SIR, —It is very probable that a considerable majority of our people are hoping that Roosevelt will be re-elected for another term of...

SIR,—A proper understanding of German behaviour is essential for determining

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a future policy for Germany. In his "Marginal Comment " of June 3oth, Mr. Harold Nicolson mentions the remarkable contrast between the corporate and individual behaviour of the...

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" That to expect young people to be civic-minded at

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t8 is either Utopian or Hitlerian." If it were true there would be little point in putting Mr. Butler's Education Bill into practice, or in continuing to evolve our not...

AMERICANS AND BRITONS

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Snt,—It is with the greatest admiration that I have read W. S. Lewis's letter in your issue of last week. As a busy housewife I had not the time tb sit down and write such a...

INDIA'S REAL PROBLEM

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nt,—Mr. Barbour has somewhat misunderstood the Indian population oblem. To say that the peak-rise-period is already over is not to eclude the possibility of " a substantial...

CHERBOURG

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Snt,—Concerning your paragraph at page 594 of The Spectator for June 3oth last, headed Cherbourg. In the Daily Express of to-day's date (i.e., July 3rd, 1944) on page 4, by the...

THE GERMAN MILITARY CODE

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R,—Referring to Mr. Harold Nicolson's timely warning about the ming arguments of the military commanders responsible' for the shoot- g of the fifty Allied officers by the...

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UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

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SIR,—Last week's otherwise inspiring leading article contained a plea that Mr. Churchill's February declaration (about unconditional surren- der) " could with advantage be...

COUNTRY LIFE

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ONE of the movements of the day, which should be beneficent, but may be lamentable, is the decentralisation of factories. A number of the have been and are being set up in the...

A CHATEAU IN NORMANDY

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SIR,—Mr. Harold Nicolson's musings about Cherbourg and Normandy prompt me to ask. whether any Americans have noticed the Chateau of Tocqueville, the home of the author of La...

Birds and Barley It is an odd thing that the

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Ministry of Agricdlture (whose natur history is often lamentable) and other bodies preach destruction of t rook (which does a deal of good as well as some harm), but say nothin...

THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE

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SIR, —In your article " The Land and the People" in your issue of June 3oth you say, about the payment of compensation at the March, 1939, value, that the substantial justice of...

SENSIBLE MONEY

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SIR,—As finance is being considered and planning is in the air, now is the time for our country at last to make an effort to simplify our coinage. Such simplification would...

Two Nurseries A queer, suggestive little incident has been watched

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by an ardent bird-watcher. This is the tale. "Two chaffinches, a cock and a hen, flew towards me. The hen went straight to a thorn bush about 20 yards half-left of me. The cock,...

In My Garden

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The habit of eating vegetables raw increases ; and it may bc said every salad is improved, certainly in health-giving qualities, by grit vegetables, both the leafy and the...

THE CUCKOO'S INTERVAL

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SIR,—The-answer of two expert musicians to Sir William Beach Thomas's question in your issue of June 23rd, as to whether the cuckoo sings a true musical interval, is to be found...

A Bradfield Naturalist A letter has recently appeared under four

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signatures (Quorum Pan Quarta Fui) to say that a memorial to Anthony Collett, a naturalist a genius, should be set up in the_shape of a natural history corner of tht library in...

Postage on this issue: Inland and Overseas, id.

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BOOKS OF THE DAY

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Life Among Gypsies MR. VESEY-FITZGERALD it well known in the journalistic world as a writer to be taken much more seriously than are most contemporary writers for the Press....

The Lady Inspector

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From One Generation to Another. By Hilda Martindale. (Alle and Unwin. I25. 6d.) The scene is the parlour of a convent in Donegal in 19o8 Father Z (who has appeared stealthily...

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Man and His Food

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NutarrioN is a word that is still often used in rather vary senses. Thus, defects in nutrition, or what is often called m nutrition, may not necessarily be due either to lack of...

The Battle of Crete

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MR. HETHERINGTON'S first chapter is a vivid account of how he left the Piraeus when resistance in Greece was on the point of collapse and sailed to Suda Bay in Crete. My...

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Mainly About Morocco

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Algerian Adventure. By Joy Collier. (Allen and Unwin. zss.) THE joy of alliteration seems to have inspired the title of this book, for it deals almost entirely with Morocco,...

Fiction

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MR. MASSIE has written a very long, careful, sincere book . whi will appeal to those who like a very intricate plot well held togeth with emotionalism and with a certain gentle...

The Examination Bogey

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MR. BRERETON is that July bogey of the young—a School Certificate Examiner. He has been involved in the organisation of these Satanic and now unfashionable rites for sixteen...

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"THE SPECTATOR " CROSSWORD No. 278

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Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct lion of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, 18th. Envelopes should be...

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 276

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it SOLUTION ON e winner of Crossword No. ehurst, Milford-on-Sea, Hants. JULY 21st. 276 is MRS. H. B. ROBERTS,

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The Annual Register, 1943. Edited by Dr. M. Epstein. (Longmans,

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42s.) Tins indispensable annual arrives this year a little later than usual, but with its value unimpaired. It covers all the principal events of 1943, domestic and foreign,...

Shorter Notices

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The Social Psychology of Education. By C. M. Fleming, Ed.B., Ph.D.--The International Library of Sociology anti Social Reconstruction. (Kegan Paul, 7s. 6d.) THERE seems to be...

FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By CUSTOS IN the markets it is now a tussle between the stimulating ne from the major war fronts and the restraining influence of the fly' bomb. On anything but the short view...

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MPANY MEETING

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CABLE AND WIRELESS (The Operating Company) RECORD TRAFFIC RECEIPTS he annual meeting of Cable and Wireless, Limited, held on Thursday, ve the £io,000,000- mark. But profit was...