13 JULY 1974

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National Illness Service crisis

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The mis-naming of the National Health Service — which is corrected in the title of this article — has been a crucial part of our failure to understand the origins, purpose,...

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Government of National Unity

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Sir: Can our plight be put right by a GNU? Would its head be dull red or pale blue? Could it rule with one mind? Let's be cruel to be kind And accept it's best kept in the...

Industry's problems

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Sir: As one who spent many years in industry — both with large and small firms — and who is still employed in a consultative capacity, 1 found the article by David Crouch MP to...

Opinion polls

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Sir: It is probable there will bea General Election this year, and once again editors and commentators will be bowing before the opinion polls. Cannot something be done to...

Economic policy

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Sir: The beliefs in the stagnating debate on economic policy as expressed by Mr Ridley and the like are all well and good. Such Conservatives have, however, one fearful enemy:...

Market matters

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Sir: .Mr Towler's indignation about the financial support that the European Movement has received in the past, from both wealthy and modest contributors, is really laughable....

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Homosexuality and the church

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Sir: It seems to me that your correspondence on homosexuality is in danger of becoming confused by odium theologicurn and confusion of terms. First of all, what do we mean by...

Abortion

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Sir: What an absurd fellow Mr Edwards is! He talks of "Good Roman Catholic Countries like France, Spain, Italy and Ireland where abortion, VD, and wickedness generally,...

World Cup terronsts

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Sir: I am surprised at your harsh judgement about the West German attempt to keep the World Cup free from disturbance by Arab terrorists ('Middle East Imperatives,' June 22)....

Novel complaint

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Sir: Peter Ackroyd's review (June 29) of Stanley Middleton's Holiday has achieved the improbable: I shall never read The Spectator again until it changes or promotes its...

Tailpiece

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'Sir: Benny Green's anecdote about how the man acquired his long black beard, namely by swallowing a horse, all but the tail, brings to mind a remedy for asthma recently heard...

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Political Commentary

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Heath's question, but whose answer? Patrick Cosgrave In the last week or so the leader of the Conservative Party and those closest to him when he made his decision to appeal...

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A Spectator's Notebook

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Some two years ago! suggested in the House of Lords that we should have a National Government. It was at the time when the government were having their first tangle with the...

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Common Market (1)

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Do they sincerely want to renegotiate? A Labour Party memorandum to the Cabinet Concern has been expressed in several quarters about the strength of the Labour Government's...

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Common Market (2)

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Medical care in the 'Nine' Alan Maynard The organisation of medical care in the nine member countries of the European Economic Community takes a variety of forms. In West...

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Ulster

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White Paper and scissors Rawle Knox A few weeks ago in Londonderry two youths were on their way to plant a bomb in a grocery store (that had been bombed some seven times...

Ethiopia

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Emperor in a labyrinth Xan Smiley The Ethiopian troubles are not over. The recent decision of the military to take control of the government is but another link in the chain...

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Westmmster Corridors

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At present I am sitting with a Heap of Letters before me which I have received in the character of Puzzle. There are Complaints from Lovers. Schemes from Projectors, Scandal...

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Spectator opecLator July 13 1974

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SOCIETY TODAY One-parent families Mr Healey misses his mark Moyra Bremner The publication of the Finer Report which reveals the desperate plight of the one-parent family...

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Medicine and morality

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Every granny a wanted granny John Linklater There is at present no provision under the NHS for gas chambers to provide a final solution to the problem of a falling birthrate...

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Press

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Evening papers Bill Grundy Maybe it's because I'm not a Londoner, that I don't love London so. Every time I arrive back I look at all those serried ranks of solid citizens in...

Advertising

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Shaving away brands Philip Kleinman When economic times are uncertain, as one need hardly say they are now, retailers are not too keen on carrying big stocks. When stocks are...

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Religion

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Faith and prejudice Martin Sullivan My friend George Appleton who recently retired from the Archbishopric in Jerusalem had this to say in an address he delivered shortly...

Country Life

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Wet and dry Peter Quince We have had so many dry weeks this year, stretching back into the early spring, that it was a shock to plunge back into wet weather again. Drought had...

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Spectator opectator July 13, 1974

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REVIEW OF BOOKS DiElbe Onyeama on the lies of a black hero This unauthorised biography* of Malcolm X (his widow declined to be interviewed for the book) owes its interest...

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The spider and its flies

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Maurice Buckm aster The Nazi Secret Service Andre Brissaud (Bodley Head £3.00) KGB John Barron (Hodder and Stoughton £4.25) Milton Waldman's translation of Andre Brissaud's...

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America bouffe

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Larry Adler The Dogs Bark Truman Capote (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £4.90) "Jack Kerouac? That isn't writing, that's typewriting!" The remark made Capote the most quoted writer of...

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America found

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A.L. Rowse England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620 D. B. Quinn (Allen and Unwin £6.50) Professor Quinn has become — after the admirable historian, J. A. Williamson —...

Fiction

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America lost Peter Ackroyd Ninety-Two In The Shade Thomas McGuane (Collins £2.50) The Limit Rosalind Belben (Hutchinson £2.45) McGuane's novel is set in the riverrunning...

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Bookbuyer's

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Bookend As predicted in Bookend last March, the house of Barrie and Jenkins has finally fallen into the hands of Communica-Europa, the Swiss-based company headed by old Etonian...

Talking of books

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Relative values Benny Green I am not familiar with the fictions of Miss Dodie Smith. Apart from the rapt attention I once paid in my teens to a Saturday night radio...

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RE VIEW

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OF THE ARTS Sheldon Williams on the international art battlefield At the XII Bienal de Sao Paulo, "If You want a prize, you need to have one of your people on the Jury,” said...

Theatre

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Hello, old lovers 'Kenneth Hurren Cole: an entertainment based on the words and music of Cole Porter; devised by Benny Green and Alan Strachan (Mermaid Theatre) For nearly...

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Cinema .

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Indigestible Huck Duncan Fallowell Huckleberry Finn. Director: J. Lee Thompson. Stars: Jeff East, Paul Winfield, Harvey Korman. 'U.' Odeon, Leicester Square (114 minutes)....

Will Waspe

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I hear that the Arts Council has a barrage of aggrieved criticism coming to it in a day or two from a group called 'Artists Now,' a panel of five that includes at least two...

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ECONOMICS AND TIIE CITY

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American deflation, British reflation Nicholas Davenport Money commentators are sometimes right and sometimes wrong — present company always excepted — but I cannot believe...

Stick 'em up prices

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Oliver Stewart Trading stamps and credit cards are financial conjuring tricks which, under cover of diversionary patter, cause enormous sums of money to disappear daily from...

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Skinflint's City Diary

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Nephew Wilde, who ran a share tip COlumn in this paper, pulled his readers out of the stock market before the collapse and in December left for the Far. East. He's just...