7 NOVEMBER 1958

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LETHARGY ON THE LEFT

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A FURTHER rise in the gold and dollar reserves in October brought them to the highest figure recorded for the last seven years; and as Mr. Wilson and other Opposition speakers...

Portrait of the Week— SWEEPING DEMOCRATIC victories in the United

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States mid-terni elebtions recalled the RooSe-• velt heyday: the Democrats made sure of majorities of about two to one in bbth . Houses. A Negro clergyman from New York City got...

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FRIDAY, NOVEM 11FR 7, 1958

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The Three Nixons

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By RICHARD H. ROVERE The Nostradamuses were as certain this time that his side would win as they were that it would lose in 1948, and we now know they had found better stars to...

Small Farmers

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T HE Government's plan for special help for the small farmer was published as a White Paper this week. It is based on principles differing very little from those put forward in...

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An Open Letter on Pasternak

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(To the Soviet Minister of Culture, Moscow) DIAR MR. M IKHAILOV, • The best-known writers of this country and of other countries have already protested in general terms about...

Partnership v. Apartheid

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By T. R. M. CREIGHTON T HE Central African Federation will elect a new Federal Parliament and Government on November 12. There are thirty-six Africans to every European, but 96...

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LAST WEEK it was announced that one Christopher Glinsky had

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been awarded 'a substantial sum' of damages against Detective Chief Superintendent Herbert Sparks and Detective Superintendent John Manning for false imprisonment. Shortly...

A Spectator's Notebook THE TONE 01' the Grigg Re- port

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on conditions in the services is most engaging: it really sounds as though it were written to be read. And its recommendations are generally sensible, though the fact that some...

THE CORONATION of the new Pope was seen on television

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by at least ten million people, I under- stand. I wonder how many of them shared my feeling that there was a striking contrast between the restrained, measured prose in which...

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Rose Macaulay

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By CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS R OSE MACAULAY was one of what is now, alas, a very small number of persons whom I have always known of as grown-up. My headmaster had a passionate...

LORD Armee is a remarkably prolific journalist. As well as

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a contribution to the Fabian Journal and his admirable examination of the life and character of Lord Montgomery in the Observer last 'Sunday. the current number of the National...

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Jordan's Future

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By ROY JENKINS, MP BRIT'S!i troops This is a highly disputable propositio:I. But even its acceptance raises in acute 1 . ,1 - 1 the question of whether we should again ,g1 - ..e...

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Haig's Year

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By 3. A. TERRA1NE Q ra DOUGLAS HAIG was appointed Commander- 1...) in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force on December 19, 1915. From that date, he corn- thanded an army...

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Roundabout

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Travels TH E exultant newspaper head- lines greeting that record- breaking first flight were almost forgotten by the time the second inaugural flight of the BOAC Comet IV took...

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As a rule they stand stockstill. The speaker of the

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moment is the only one who is allowed a little gesture. . . . When they do move, it is without premeditation, at hap-hazard, even with a little natural clumsiness, as of people...

Cadenza

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RALPH CUSACK Set in Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and the South of France, this is a wonderfully exciting and unconventional autobiographical fantasy by which Ralph Cusack...

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An English Coxswain

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Does your wife see red? Every Ego or Id. must influence, to a greater or lesser degree, the behaviour pattern of mankind. So your book-habits, which you no doubt fondly believe...

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itself. There is the initial certainty—`I'm going to bring her

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back and leave my wife' : the mount- ing uneasiness—'What will the firm say?' : love for his children, recollected love and acknowledged hatred for his wife : the vision of...

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Brooke Bond have produced excellent results to June 30, 1958,

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but it would seem mostly for the benefit of the lax collector. The group income is up slightly from £79.6 million to £80.6 million; but the tax item has increased by £792,000....

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SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH Pre- sidential Address, Professor C. D.

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Broad, Litt.D.. F.B.A., on 'Dreaming and Some of Its Implica- tions.' Manson Both), 26 Portland Place, W.I. Thursday, 13th November, 6.30 p.m. Admission Free. STELLA FISHER...

N ews requires Sub-Editors, External Services iNeWs Department. Ability to select,

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condense and write news quickly and accurately for audiences outside the United Kingdom essential. Candidates should be trained journalists, pre- lerably with experience of...

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LITERARY

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POPPY DAY

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THEY ARE TRAINING TO EVERYONE'S BENEFIT!

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Lads now learning to he seamen may be th e skippers and men who help to keep our Se a lines open. The future safety of our maritim e traffic and contacts is in their hands. They...

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