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THE EISENHOWER POLICY
The SpectatorA PART from one communique which sounded ominous. the news from Denver has been encouraging. President Eisenhower has been making good progress and is now practically out of...
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MERCHANTS OF DEATH
The SpectatorHE signing of a contract for the supply of Czech arms to the Egyptian Government and the hint that Saudi Arabia and Syria might do likewise seem to have caused excessive...
NORTH AFRICA
The SpectatorT HE almost simultaneous announcement of the with- drawal of the Sultan of Morocco to Tangier and of the French UN delegation to Paris following the placing of Algeria on the...
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MR. BUTLER'S BRIGHTNESS
The SpectatorI N Jtly, August and September Britain as banker for the sterling area paid out gold and dollars or ran into debt , to the tune of nearly five hundred million dollars. The main...
Portrait of the Week
The SpectatorOREIGN affairs have been boiling merrily this week. What with the French delegation flying back in dudgeon from New York after the vote to include Algeria on the agenda of the...
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Political Commentary
The SpectatorBY HENRY FAIRLIE I T gets curiouser and curiouser. It now seems certain that the changes in the Government are going to be postponed even beyond the reassembly of Parliament. At...
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PITY THE POOR GHOST—that is, Mr. Cleveland Amory, whose `editorial
The Spectatorassistance and advice in connection with the publi- cation of [the Duchess of Windsor's] memoirs' are no longer required. 'The Duchess,' he says, 'has whims more than opinions,...
A FRIEND who has been in Sicily tells me that
The Spectatorthere has been a German invasion there this summer. So strong has it been that the Sicilians assume that every non-Italian is a German. My friend was having dinner with three...
A Spectator's Notebook
The SpectatorA FORTNIGHT AGO I asked what proportion of Communists in a body makes it reasonable to suppose that they have practical control of it. The reference was to the Preparatory...
SOME REVIEWERS made great play with the booing from the
The Spectatorgallery at the end of the first performance of the Punch Revue. I was present and I heard the booing but it (lid not for a moment occur to me that this was a case of the stern...
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Quest for Crossman
The SpectatorBY HENRY FAIRLIE This ability of Mr. Crossman to find a satisfactory intellectual basis for his opinions, attitudes and actions of the moment is, of course, his most obvious...
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Soft on China*
The SpectatorBY GEORGE STAFFORD GALE 0 NE of the major curiosities of Coronation year, and there were many, was the warmth of the reception afforded to the navigating antics of the Russian...
Next week's Spectator will include THE ENGLISH MARTYRS, BY HUGH
The SpectatorTREVOR ROPER, and the article on 'The Professional Author' which was to have appeared this week.
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Redskins and Conks
The SpectatorBy COLM BROGAN I F the news of melodramatic goings-on in Soho came as a shock to many Londoners, it is a fair assumption that it was received with quiet satisfaction by the more...
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City and Suburban
The SpectatorBY JOHN BETJEMAN I WISH I were a director, or at an rate an influential ` employee, of the firm of Patmacs, who own, among other attractive premises, the Tabard Inn, Bedford...
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Rus IN URGE Have you ever noticed how very few
The Spectatortrains there are on the London undergrounds, the District and Inner Circle lines in particular, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays? No doubt an official of the London Passenger...
THE ROMANCE OF THE THAMES
The SpectatorI stood last Sunday afternoon in the warm October sunlight with a beautiful girl beside me on Battersea Bridge. The high tide was just ebbing out, and as we looked down into the...
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Strix
The SpectatorUnder Two Flags I HAVE been reading with great interest a book about the German occupation of the Channel Islands during the last war; it is called Islands in Danger, by Alan...
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SIR,—Lady Violet Bonham Carter is:not only, as Mr. Henry Fairlie
The Spectatorclownishly concedes, 'a tenacious controversialist'; on this specific issue she is right as accurate about the facts as she is, in my view, justified in her protest against Mr....
Sut,—The writer of your 'Political Commen- tary,' Mr. Fairlie, has
The Spectatorstated that 'at the time of the disappearance of Maclean and Burgess, "the right people" moved into action,' bring- ing 'subtle but powerful pressures to bear' which, he says,...
Letters to the Editor
The Spectator'The Establishment' Sir Robert Boothby, MP Hon. David Astor, Randolph S. Churchill John Connell, Stephen Dumpling Lady Violet Bonham Carter Some of my Best Friends are Scots...
Sut, — As a keen admirer of much of what Mr. Henry
The SpectatorFairlie , writes about politics, I have sometimes thought that his bonnet concealed a whole beehive of nonsense about what he terms 'the Establishment. In your issue of...
assume that.you have received letters in support of Mr. Fairlie's
The Spectatorarticle on the 'Establishment,' apart from Lady Violet Bon- ham Carter's indictment with its tweedy brogue and Mr. Sparrow's peevish squeak. - There is no doubt about the...
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SIR,-Mr, Fairlie is right in believing that it would have
The Spectatorbeen in his own self-interest to withdraw the base and baseless charges against myself and others which he has proved him- self unable to support by one jot or tittle of...
SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE SCOTS SIR,—How well Highlander
The Spectatordescribes himself when endeavouring to besmear his fellow Scots. The phrases, 'cringing fellow' and 'spirit of a menial,' suit him admirably and mark him as a nauseous sycophant...
SIR,—As a person of mixed parentage, edu- cated almost wholly
The Spectatorin England and now resident in Scotland, I should like to comment on recent passages in the Spectator. If Miss Robertson were to complete her experiment, I am prepared to bet...
MR. CROSSMAN'S COLUMN
The SpectatorSIR,-I would like to correct a misconception which your readers may have gained from a reference to me in your last issue. You re- marked : `Mr. Crossman is now the hard- worked...
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PUNCH, that curious British compromise be- tween humour and wit,
The Spectatorhas recently gone and got itself a new look. In fact, 'post-Muggeridge Punch' is now a term at least as well known to the public as 'Proto-Sumerian' or 'Post- Jurassic,' and,...
Painting
The SpectatorGAUGUIN MANY of the Gauguins at the Tate, particu- larly it seems those painted in Tahiti and the Marquesas, have been set by their owners in wide, elaborately carved frames...
Contemporary Arts
The SpectatorThe Theatre THE MULBERRY BUSH. By Angus Wilson. ;(Bristol Old Vic.) ANGUS WILSON'S chief motive for writing a play (a programme note tells us) was his con- viction that the...
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Cinema
The SpectatorTHE KING'S THIEF. (Ritz.) -THE VIRGIN 'QUEEN. (Carlton.) --THE TROUBLE SHOOTER. (Odeon.) IT is curious that with such vast resources at its command the cinema industry is rarely...
Television
The SpectatorTHE excitement of the first. CTV week died rather fast in the second, when what lOoked likely from the beginning—the fact that we need expect no enormous innovation—became...
The Spectator
The SpectatorOCTOBER 9,1830 THE fate of Belgium is decided, as far as the opinions and resolutions of the people of Bel- gium, signified through the Provisional Gov- ernment at Brussels, can...
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For Autumn reading
The SpectatorInside Africa (Nov.) JOHN GUNTHER 30s. The Life of by her sister WINIFRED Kathleen Ferrier* La Grande Mademoiselle (Nov.) Thurber's Dogs (Nov., ) JAMES THURBER The Myth...
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AUTUMN BOOKS
The SpectatorThe Making of a Master BY MARTIN TURNELL I T is a strange thing that, in an age as passionately devoted to literary research as our own, an early work by a Euro- pean master...
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Leavis on Lawrence
The SpectatorBY JOHN WAIN I T is my considered , opinion that only two of our academic • literary critics have produced, in the past twenty years, . books that could be called great; and...
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Editor's Notes
The SpectatorBY KINGSLEY AMIS T O the eye of today, the young men of the Thirties will look as if they started their literary careers under the burden of immoderate advantages. In the...
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The Eastern Schism
The SpectatorME EASTERN SCHISM. By Steven Runciman. (O.U.P., 21s.) This book is based on the Waynflete Lectures which Mr. Runciman delivered at Oxford in the spring of 1955. It is a brief...
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Thomas the Novelist
The SpectatorADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE. By Dylan Thomas. (Putnam, 9s. 6d.) FOR its eloquence alone this fragment of Dylan Thomas's pro- jected autobiographical novel was worth publishing....
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Acts and Epistles
The SpectatorSIGMUND FREUD, LIFE AND WORK, VOL. II: YEARS OF MATURITY, 1901-1919. By Ernest Jones. (Hogarth Press, 30s.) IT is probable that Freud would have admired the industry, the...
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Bosch, Bernini and Holbein
The SpectatorBERNINI. By R. Wittkower. (Phaidon Press, 50s.) ALL sorts of explanations, from madness to some form of heretical belief, have been put forward to account for the nature of the...
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Five Adventurers
The SpectatorWILD ADVENTURE. By Howard Hill. (Robert Hale, 165.) FIvE adventurers, and the least flamboyant has written the best book. In Between the Elephant's Eyes an American colonel des-...
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Watch This Space
The Spectator(Heinemann, 10s.) THE SKY BLOCK. By Steve Frazee. (Bodley Head, 9s. 6d.) BRING THE JUBILEE. By Ward Moore. (Heinemann, 10s. 6d.) SCIENCE fiction, the only taste Dylan Thomas and...
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In and Out of School
The SpectatorSty GREAT ScintansTs. By J. G. Crowther. (Hamilton, 10s. 6d.) THE YOUNG TRAVELLER IN THE WEST INDIES. By Lucille Iremonger. (Phcenix House, 8s. 6d.) T HE YOUNG COLLECTOR'S...
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Pot Luck
The SpectatorHOME MADE COUNTRY WINES. Collected by the Farmers Weekly, (Hutton Press, 3s.) JEAN CONICS COOKERY CLASSES. (Peter Owen, 21s.) JAMES BEARD'S FISH COOKERY. (Faber, 21s.) LA...
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It's a Crime
The SpectatorBEAST IN VIEW. By Margaret Millar. (Gollancz, 10s. 6d.) DEATH LIKES IT HOT. By Edgar Box. (Heinemann, 10s. 6d.) Asic A POLICEMAN. By E. C. R. Lorac. (Crime Club, 10s. 6d.) A...
New Novels
The Spectator13s. 6d.) BLIND DATE. By Leigh Howard. (Longman, 12s. 6d.) MR. WOUK has written an important novel of considerably greater scope and skill than The Caine Mutiny. It is, indeed,...
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DESPITE the depredations of Nature's most ruthless exterminator, man, the
The Spectatorgolden eagle at present shows signs of strengthening its position in the Scottish Highlands, the only area in the British Isles fortunate enough to be able to count this...
Recent Reprints
The SpectatorTHE C.U.P. have reissued William C. Braith- waite's standard work, The Beginnings of Quakerism, which was first published in 1912 and twice reprinted. The new issue is a second...
Blackened foliage is the warning with i dahlias. Cut back
The Spectatorthe stalks and see that no water is retained in the hollow butts. Begenia $ should be taken up at the same time. The stoic must, above all, be frost-proof and dry.
Country Life
The SpectatorBy IAN NIALL YESTERDAY I found myself standing still to watch a horse and cart go past, so unusual has the sight become. The horse was a rather old one of the Shire breed, and I...
BIRD PRESERVATION
The SpectatorA letter about bird preservation in Australia comes from Mr. Max Henry, of Chatswood, NSW, who remarks: 'The growth of natural feeling for the wild life of Australia .has been...
Chess
The SpectatorBY PHILIDOR No. 18. F. LIBBY (1st Prize, 'Morning Post,' 1901) BLACK, 7 men. Warm to play a n d s m o a lu te tio i n n n 2 eit mr e s: An 'old mast er . Solution • to IJcI...
FISHING DREAMS
The SpectatorNo one who has not fly-fished for trout can really know the heavy-heartedness that assails an angler when the season comes to a close, us' it did but a few days ago. I marked...
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Solution on October 21
The SpectatorSolution to No. 853 no noon ill The winners of Crossword No. 853 are: Ma. W. E. Gums., 4 Lyneltoo Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham 16, and MR. C. W. Oats, Cleveland.,
SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 295 Set by Lord Horder
The SpectatorCertain journals include classified an- nouncements from persons seeking hus- bands or wives for themselves, emphasising the advertiser's charms and outlining the qualities...
SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 855
The Spectator1, tier° (7). ' (10). k 4 The rack in which one might expect to 6 The Maid of Astolat (4). , ls 'Kind 8 Percy Lubbock's Pictures (5). ,_ Take-off are her —__. (Campion) (7)....
New Oil for an Old Lamo
The SpectatorCo mpetitors were asked to imagine that Omar Khayyam were alive in present-day Persia, and, for the usual prize, to furnish not more than three quatrains from his pen. A C...
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COMPANY' NOTES
The SpectatorBy CUSTOS MR. BUTLER'S optimism at the Mansion House dinner—a sentiment where restraint is not apparently to be intensified—helped the gilt-edged market up half a point or...
THE . LIMITATIONS OF BANK RATE
The SpectatorBy NICHOLAS DAVENPORT THE speeches at the annual Mansion House dinner to the bankers and merchants of the City are usually more significant for what they leave unsaid than for...