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AMERICA'S CHOICE
The SpectatorG ENERAL EISENHOWER'S sweeping victory raises two questions—of its causes and of its consequences. As to the former the prophets give no help, for they have plainly been...
Marshal Tito's Communism Four years ago the fifth congress of
The Spectatorthe Yugoslav Commu- nist Party met under the shadow of the bread' with Russia. Its leaders were still puzzled to see what had gone wrong and why it had gone wrong. This week the...
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Towards Sudan Independence
The SpectatorFor the past seven years Anglo-Egyptian exchanges on the subject of the Sudan have been concerned with generalities, and there' has been no chance of agreement. General Neguib...
The New Central Africa
The SpectatorThe conference on Central African Federation in January will be crucial, and it is of the first importance that by the time it happens alrconcerned, the British public included,...
Getting Nowhere in Korea
The SpectatorAn almost surrealist fantasy distinguishes the Soviet attitude on prisoners of war in Korea. Russia herself still holds in captivity (and refuses to account for, let alone...
Assurance to Kenya
The SpectatorThe conclusions the Colonial Secretary has reached after his brief but intensive investigation into conditions in Kenya deserve careful consideration. One thing, said Mr....
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Transport Bill: New Version
The SpectatorThe new Transport Bill, introduced and published on Wed- nesday, is in one respect at any rate a definite improvement on the old. Of the proposed £4 million levy on road...
Wanted, a Centre Group ?
The SpectatorMr. Frank Byers' suggestion of the formation of a new Centre Group, . composed of Left Wing Conservatives, Liberals and Right Wing Labour, has its attractions, principally no...
AT WESTMINSTER
The SpectatorI T is not comfortable for either House to get back into its working clothes on the day of the State opening of a new session of Parliament. This is true when a mere King, so to...
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THE SECOND LAP
The Spectator0 N Tuesday, the Government, with its slender majority, which the noteworthy Wycombe result has not impaired, entered on its second session, which means in effect its second...
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I have read with interest a notice in the Scotsman
The Spectatorthat " the Rev. Countess Mayo, D.D.," is " resuming " on the subject of Truth in Action in the present week in a hall in Edinburgh. More light on this would be welcome. Women...
It must be wonderful to be on Christian-name terms with
The Spectatorfirst-class cricketers and footballers. Indeed if you can't be on Christian-name terms with Royalty—not everyone can—this, no doubt, is the next best thing. Hitherto University...
One passage in Lord Samuel's own speech on Monday con-
The Spectatorawed a phrase that was intentionally or unintentionally ignificant. For forty years, he said, we have had on the rone " men of high character and prudent judgement." Why orty?...
A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
The SpectatorAKEN by itself the drop in the Labour majority at Cleve- land meant little.. When the increase in the Government majority at Wycombe is combined with it a definite trend begins...
I should like to write an essay, but shall in
The Spectatorfact only write a paragraph, on the reading habits of the middle classes, or a large section of them. Not long ago I happened to stay at four different hotels on consecutive...
I No one could better deserve honour than Lord Samuel
The Spectatordid the tribute paid him by his fellow Liberals on Monday. The fact that he was first elected to the House of Commons fifty years ago does not mean that he has sat for fifty...
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Eisenhower's Triumph
The SpectatorBy ROBERT WAITHMAN Washington. G ENERAL EISENHOWER as President-elect has won so sweeping a victory that he is under no special debt to the reactionaries or isolationists of...
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The War Criminals
The SpectatorByERNST FRIEDLAENDER I N British or American newspapers Gentians who at any time since 1945 were condemned as war criminals and who are still in Allied prisons are referred to...
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The Sermon I Want II
The SpectatorBy C. L. JACQUES (To whom a Second Prize has been awarded.) T HE sermon I want to hear would frighten me if I heard it. I have listened to sermons regularly all my life, always...
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Fables of Today—I
The SpectatorOther Island By JACQUETTA HAWKES A SMALL island, temperate and fertile, supported a thriving population of beavers. They had been settled there for a long time, and had built...
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UNDERGRADUATE PAGE
The SpectatorAnglo-Irish ByJOHN PRATT (Queen Mary College, London) I RELAND seems a wonderful place in which to study English civilisation. For it is pre-eminently one large and glorious...
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MARGINAL COMMENT
The SpectatorBy HAROLD NICOLSON D URING the last week I have been reading with profit and pleasure Mr. Alan Bullock's biography of Adolf Hitler. Valuable as it will be as a text-book and a...
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MUSIC Tun most distinguished concert of the week, in which
The Spectatorthe B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Vittorio Gui, was unfortunately the occasion of a major-disappointment. Szigeti has always been a temperamentally uncertain...
CINEMA
The SpectatorThe Strange Ones. (Continentale.)—The Marrying Kind. (Carlton.) The'Strange Ones is one of those strange fantasies devised by M. Jean ,Cocteau for the mystification of a public...
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The SpectatorTHEATRE Maurice Chevalier. (Hippodrome.)—The Long Mirror. By J. B. Priestley. (Royal Court.) ALL by himself, on a platform over the orchestra pit, his celebrated hat shading...
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ART
The SpectatorA Miscellany of Painters. THE art-critic is constantly tempted, for the sake of readability, to force the exhibitions he is reviewing into some sort of relationship that is in...
Autres Temps Autres Moeurs
The SpectatorOutdated and outmoded though it be, I listened long to that wild, piercing tune With which the nightingale charms May and June Hidden among the hazels and a sea Of may that...
TO ENSURE REGULAR RECEIPT OF
The SpectatorTHE SPECTATOR readers are urged to place a firm order with their news- agent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as...
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Prison Officers Sut,-1 agree with "Prison Broke " that on
The Spectatorthe whole the prison staffs in this country carry out their tasks efficiently or at least to the best of their ability. But the tasks they have to carry out are tedious,...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The SpectatorAttlee and Bevan Snt,—The article by the Rev. Mervyn Stockwood in your last issue has no doubt a considerable interest for members of the Labour Party. For non-members it may...
Crime and Punishment
The SpectatorSm,—It is to be hoped that, before authority yields to the demand for corporal punishment for violent crimes, there will be an analysis and report to the public as to the...
Sw,—In agreeing with Janus that it is time young brutes
The Spectatorwho cosh lonely women were made to feel physical pain, I should say the sooner after the event and in the form least calculated to flatter their vanity. I would draw' your...
Siu,—The Old Testament, being the keystone of _both the New
The SpectatorTesta- ment and the Koran, and thus forming the basis of the moral law of the greater part of mankind, should be worth consulting with regard to the ethics of flogging that is...
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A Plan for Clubs
The SpectatorSIR. — S0 Janus has theoretical sympathy with freedom ! I find myself shocked and distressed, as well as bewildered, by his continuous advocacy of the State ownership of public...
Bevanite Broadcasting
The SpectatorSIR,—I can assure Mr. Adrian Brunel that I was not complaining in my original letter about Bevanite broadcasters. I wished merely to indicate that their broadcasting success...
Working to Rule
The SpectatorSIR,—It is entirely as it should be for a Cambridge man, like Mr. Johnson, to be a stickler for accuracy. I was writing admittedly from memory of roughly forty years' standing,...
SIR,—The Newtown collision, referred to by your correspondents, did not
The Spectatortake place shortly before, but shortly after, the First World War— on January 26th, 1921, to be exact.—Yours faithfully, JOHN GARDNER. 4 South Close, Morden, Surrey.
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" Buffalo Bill "
The SpectatorSIR,—In his recent well-meant review of the book Buffalo Bill (in the authorship of which I collaborated with Mr. Rupert Croft-Cooke), Professor Brogan makes two critical...
Mau Mau
The SpectatorSut,—There was one important event not mentioned in your article, The Mau Mau Threat. In 1938 The Crown Lands Ordinance No. 27 and The Native Lands Ordinance authorised the...
A Temple of Tombs Sm,—Does not the closing of Westminster
The SpectatorAbbey afford a unique opportunity to clear out all statues except royal tombs, recumbent figures, or memorials belonging to the period of the Abbey itself ? I would suggest...
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A Stoat Legend Has a stoat ever attacked man ?
The SpectatorIn the legends about such attacks one often hears that the stoats were hunting in a pack. J., who is a carpenter, is the only man I have ever met who swears he was attacked, and...
Farm Fire
The SpectatorMy friend R. has lost some of the hay and corn he harvested so carefully a few months ago. His Dutch barn caught fire and made a beacon for the countryside around. People went...
Rat-Hunt While I stood looking into the old man's chicken-run,
The SpectatorI saw a rat. It was a very large grey rat, and it came out of some stones at one end of the run, and scurried along to a coop where it vanished. The old man came along, beating...
COUNTRY LIFE
The SpectatorTHERE is nothing so beautiful as a wooded valley in the Welsh mountains at this time of year. The rivers are rising again, and the deciduous trees are shedding leaves that strew...
Tulips and Chrysanthemums
The SpectatorPut in tulips after dressing the soil with basic slag. The bulbs should be four inches down and the site should be sunny but not too exposed. Move chrysanthemums into the...
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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 140
The SpectatorReport by Limpet The bagpipe is being advertised in New York. " Complete with blowpipe, droties, chanter, bright plaid bag and ribbons, this easy-to- play American bagpipe is an...
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 143
The SpectatorSet by C. MacMaster-Fulton The Manchester Guardian has been advertising widely to attract new readers, holding out as inducement its wisdom, wit and " flavour." The Daily...
the gapertator. Robetttber 6th, 1852.
The SpectatorAnother " accident " by running an express-train into a goods-train The ten o'clock express-train from Brighton on Monday morning. as it approached the Redhill goods-station,...
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In next week's " Spectator " the Rt. Hon. L.
The SpectatorS. Amery, C.H., will review " Stanley Baldwin " by G. M. Young ; J. M. Cohen " Robert Browning : a Portrait " by Betty Miller; and Honor Croome "Professional People " by Roy...
The Young Visiter
The SpectatorA Forgotten Journey. By Peter Fleming. (Hart-Davis. 10s. 6d.) WHEN Peter Fleming wrote News from Tartary describing a fantastic journey from one end of China to the other and...
BOOKS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorA Great Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. By Francis Williams. (Hutchinson. 21s.) A NATION'S foreign policy seldom owes much to the character of its Foreign Secretary. Especially...
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The Hymn and The Singer
The SpectatorHymns and Human Life. By Erik Routley. (John Murray. I 6s.) THE influence of hymns on the religious conceptions of that semi- mythical creature " the average Church-goer ' is...
Guilt, Fear and Loneliness
The SpectatorIF Communism had not temporarily claimed Mr. Koestler, how, one wonders, would he have developed as a writer ? A pointless question, no doubt, since the unrooted intellectual in...
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Submarines : British and German
The SpectatorU-Boat 977. By Heinz Schaeffer. (William Kimber. 15s.) A READING of these two books awakens some disturbing personal doubts. Why do Mr. Young's experiences in the British...
The Case for Theism •
The SpectatorThe Recovery of Belief. By C. E. M. Joad. (Faber. 15s.) WE have had the Testament of Joad. I am sure that a delicate scruple has kept him from calling the present book his New...
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Men, Women and Hervey
The SpectatorLord Hervey's Memoirs. Edited by Romney Sedgwick. (William Kimber. 25s.) HERVEY, Horace Walpole, Chesterfield and Selwyn—imagine our eighteenth-century history, as written of...
National Asset.?
The SpectatorClimate and the British Scene. By Gordon Manley. (Collins. New Naturalist Series. 25s.) UNTIL recently climate was a forbidding subject full of tables of temperature and...
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Old Maps
The SpectatorTins is a revised edition of Old Decorative Maps and Charts by A. L. Humphreys, published in 1926. Twenty-two new plates have been added and seventeen omitted (including two big...
Fiction
The SpectatorHUMOUR and fantasy provoke strong reactions, and readers' judge- ments of them are notoriously subjective. In a family circle one member will be convulsed by a book which leaves...
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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS IT is significant of the uncertain mood of investors that there has been no marked reaction this week to any of the develop- ments which, in some circumstances, might...
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THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD 'No. 703 b4 Book Token for one
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