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lege petty 1nOrtoeuvres
The SpectatorIt is more remarkable that Mr Jones is adhering to the so-called social contract with the Labour Government than it is that Mr Scanlon is, apparently, abandoning the whole idea...
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International obligations
The SpectatorFrom Dr Garret FitzGeraid, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Ireland. Sir: My friend Patrick Cosgrave, says that foreigners, and I in particular, utterly fail to...
Market matters
The SpectatorSir: "Small ... seems to be the prospect of converting a pro-referendum man to the opposite side, or vice versa," says Mr Cosgrave in his Political Commentary of August 24....
Sir: Patrick Cosgrave may believe that membership of the EEC
The Spectatoris of 'transcendent importance' but his difficulty is that the mass of the electorate, on whose behalf he purports to speak, quite obviously does not. If it did, then the issue...
From Mrs S. Donaldson
The SpectatorSir: During the past week it has been reported in the press that Intervention Beef, because of the need of ever-more storage space, is being held in refrigerated ships anchored...
Inflation
The SpectatorSir: A great deal has been said and written about the frightening state of inflation under which we exist and the dangerous consequences which loom in the immediate future. I...
Conservative dilemmas
The SpectatorSir: As a life long but now very disillusioned Conservative, I am faced with an appalling dilemma as the next general election approaches. Until Mr Heath decided to call a...
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Sir: There is a deal of talk about the quality
The Spectatorand activity of our political l eadership, which varies from the succinct comment by a remarkably successful and articulate 'blimp' to the reminder by William Baird in the...
Ford and Rockefeller
The SpectatorSir: Your excellent editorials in the matter of Nixon have led only to a curious turn now that Nixon has resigned. Your editorial of August 17, was a bad hash. For one thing:...
Where the money goes
The SpectatorSir: I was first interested, then surprised to read the ex-Editor of Time's account of Edmund Wilson's "discovery" of the uses "to which the Government put the tax money," and...
The politics of sex
The SpectatorSir: The attitudes of the Family Planning Association to sex education have been the occasion of much concern among reasonable and responsible parents for several years. Some of...
Sir: "Our politics would have been far healthier, writes Patrick
The SpectatorCosgrave (August 31), "had Labour taken a stand for and the Tories a stand against the (Abortion) Bill." Neater, tidier, simpler, they might have been. But many Labour MPs...
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Political Commentary
The SpectatorUnions and governments Patrick Cosgrave There will, no doubt, be a Tory government again in Britain, at some time in the future; and it behoves those who would wish that event...
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A Spectator's Brighton TUC Notebook
The SpectatorThe most remarkable thing that strikes one at a Ttic conference is the complete difference between the judgement of delegates about the Whole affair and the judgement of the...
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Trade Unions (1)
The SpectatorThreat or bulwark? George Gale When Frank Cousins succeeded Arthur Deakin as General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union in 1956, a shift in power within the...
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Trade Unions (2)
The SpectatorRegenerated and optimistic Clive Jenkins The overwhelming feeling within the British trade union movement is one of confidence. It would not be an overestimation to say that...
Labour
The SpectatorKeeping up Michael Hatfield Joyce Bellamy and John Saville, in their Dictionary of Labour Biography, have set themselves more than a lifetime's work. AS they acknowledged in...
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American Letter
The SpectatorBring back the girl Al Capp Theatre oWners in the US are mystified, and the Women's Lib groups are surly because, again, there are no girls in the Top Ten list of our cinema...
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Renegotiation
The SpectatorAn act of international lawlessness? Ernst Albert Mr Albert's article is published in line with this journal's policy of offering its readers a variety of _arguments on...
Westminster Corridors
The SpectatorMy friend Captain Freepen, who disguises his present Decay by visiting the Wenches of the Town only by way of humour, tells me that the other night he with Sir Simon d'Audley...
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World Population Conference
The SpectatorThe great population hoax John Linklater Bucharest the most important single benefit that many delegates have derived from two sweltering weeks in a Balkan heatwave, is their...
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Education
The SpectatorFewer could mean better Rhodes Boyson, MP It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good and the recently published figures of the sharp fall in the birth rate could promise a...
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Housing
The SpectatorImprovements—and frustrations galore Leslie Loader Everyone must now accept that modernisation of otherwise sound houses and flats must have similar priority to the building...
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Ad v ert i sing
The SpectatorClassified information . Philip Kleinman "Good opportunities for intelligent .school-leavers at Lloyd's Bank," "Drilling engineers and supervisors required for Conoco's...
Religion
The SpectatorAccording to St John Martin Sullivan There has fallen into my hands the manuscript, in clear and legible form, of a paper delivered in Belfast in 1910 by my predecessor Dean...
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Ronald Hingley on the ideals of a dissident
The SpectatorAndrei Sakharov, now in his early fifties, is the r n„nst prominent political dissident active in the L'SSR of 1974. An outstanding atomic physicist, O nce known as 'Father of...
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Life with the stars
The SpectatorFrancis King The Letters of Charles Dickens. Volume Three Edited by Madeline House, Graham Storey and Kathleen Tillotson. (Oxford University Press. £13.00). THE bulk of these...
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Blowing his trumpet John
The Spectatorny Mercer m.. fs My Mistress Duke Ellin g ton ( W. H. Allen e , 5 , 50) this autobio g raphy by Edward Kennedy b gton were a concert piece, it would be g in saYin g andante or...
Painting his own portrait
The Spectatorcolhi Wilson My Li f e Oscar Kokoschka ( Thames and Hudson £5.25 ) Let me say at once that I suspect this is one of the g reat artistic autobiographies, comparable to those of...
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Romaniac
The SpectatorKenneth Robinson Dracula A Biography of Vlad the Impaler 1431-1476 Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally (Robert Hale £3.50). This biography of the real-life Dracula, known as...
An abiding city
The SpectatorJ. Enoch Powell The City Of The Gods, a study in myth a rld mortality John S. Dunne (Sheldon Press £4.50) Professor Dunne's book — he is professor of Religious Studies at Yale...
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Religious fiction
The SpectatorBurning up Peter Ackroyd Blood. Red, Sister Rose Thomas Keneally (Collins £3.00) A Crown of Feathers Isaac Bashevis Singer (Cape £2.95) It takes a certain talent to turn a...
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Talking of religion
The SpectatorAnybody there? Benny Green One evening in the autumn of 1949 Blitski and Myself arranged a seance. You are not to assume from this startling piece of information that either...
Bookbuyer's
The SpectatorBookend It is no secret that British publishers are facing one of the most testing periods in their entire history. Their problems at home are no more or less critical than...
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Rodney Elms on a Scottish triumph in Edinburgh
The SpectatorThe international side of the Edinburgh Festival has a distinctly Swedish tinge this year. The Stockholm Royal Opera is bringing four productions; the Gothenburg City Theatre...
Theatre
The SpectatorAll too long a date Kenneth HwTen - surn mer f olk by Maxim Gorky: Royal Shakespeare Company Let My People Come by Earl (Aldwych) Wilson, Jr (Regent) David Jones, the RSC...
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Fighting for fish heads
The SpectatorDuncan FaHowell Jonathan Livingston Seagull Director : Hall Bartlett. Star: Jack Couffer (cinematography). "1.l' ABC Blonnibury (97 minutes). Percy's Progress Director: Ralph...
Art
The SpectatorAmusing the young Evan Anthony Having recently returned from the world of Disney (in Florida), thoroughly corrupted by the sunshine and the slickness and the smartness of it...
Will Waspe
The SpectatorThe production of his hobby-horse show, An Evening with Mr Ziegfeld — The Follies, has already cost petrol-station tycoon Ian Trotter something over a quarter of a million, and...
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Don't just slump, do something (2)
The SpectatorNicholas Davenport My first call for anti-depression action — namely that the managers of the life funds should re-enter the market and resume their normal buying of cheap...
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Skinflint's City Diary
The SpectatorAnyone who has read Charles Stahl, whose column on the metal market and the financial affairs in Wall Street appears in The Spectator this week, will find that his own...
Writing on the Wall...Street
The SpectatorCharles R. Stahl The transfer of power in the United States went as smoothly as counting one, two, three ... Ford! Already the change has produced some visible improvements, by...