13 MARCH 1976

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The party is over•

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For fifteen years or more Britain has enjoyed access to sources of international credit on a scale enjoyed by no Other nation. From Mr Maudling to Mr Healey British Chancellors...

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The Week

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The pound floated down below two dollars for the first time. Nigeria admitted to having helped it on its way—poor thanks to Mr Wilson for his support in the civil war— and the...

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Political Commentary

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'Why Heath fell' Patrick Cosgrave The fall of the Heath government was a traumatic experience for the Conservative Party; and it is far from clear that, even under new...

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Notebook

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Few people in London were able to read last weekend's Sunday Times because of an 'industrial dispute' among the casual labourers who wrap up and load the bundles of newspapers....

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Another voice

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Aux armes, citoyens Auberon Waugh The part of France where my family has its holiday home, and where,1 will bolt when the trade unions finally make life unendurable for...

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Greece turns left

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Nicos E. Devletoglou Athens 'Greece badly needs Mr Karamanlis. He is as useful as a can-opener. You can open the C5 n and immediately forget about the can° Pener'. This classic...

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...and Japan

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Henry Stokes Great change is afoot in Japan. Since the Pacific War the country has been run by a coalition of conservative factions, much as Italy; these were formally combined...

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A real capital

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Henry Fairlie Washington There is an important point to make about the presidential election. I can best make It with two vignettes. Last Friday, I was invited to join a...

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The US, Britain and Rhodesia

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Judith Acton Washington, never deeply concerned with the politics of Southern Africa in the past, is now, in the wake of Soviet-Cuban assistance to the winning side in the...

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Holes at Les Halles

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Michael Parrott Paris It is only a story about holes, but all Paris is talking about it. There is the big hole in the middle of the former meat, fruit and vegetable market of...

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Councillors' pocket money

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Roland Freeman Nothing about democracy seems to infuriate the public more than the payment of their elected representatives. The last row over parliamentary salaries will...

The lessons of Adam Smith

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Ian Bradley Cynics might maintain, I suppose, that the only part of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations relevant to our own times is its last sentence with the plea that Britain...

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Chemical mystery

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Elisabeth Dunn Somewhere, in a peaceful, secluded financial backwater, there is some £75,000. Or at least, there should be, because that was the sum that remained in the Golden...

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In the City

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Attack on sterling Nicholas Davenport When the established institutions of our City democracy are to meet new attacks from the left wing of the Labour party— the next ordeal...

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Marxianity Sir: One would love to know the identity of

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'Mr Stuart Reid who so blithely writes that 'the Ostpolitik of the Catholic Church has been thoroughly [sic] examined and discredited' in a 'booklet' by a French journalist 'who...

Church of the deaf Sir: The facts set out in

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Mr Stuart Reid's article in your issue of 21 February in regard to the actions of the Pope and the World Council of Churches towards communism admit of an explanation that is at...

Is Israel racist?

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Sir: Hewlett Johnson, the late 'Red' Dean of Canterbury, used to travel in Eastern Europe saying very hard things about Britain. He was allowed to continue in his job and was in...

Judaism

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Sir: Others, no doubt, will deal with the anti-Israel aspects of Patrick Marnham's article 'Is Israel racist ?' (6 March). I should like to comment on his misrepresentations of...

The Nanny State

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Sir: Congratulations on your timely and hard-hitting front-page editorial. If only others would bestir themselves to speak out with equal vigour in defence of out liberties !...

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Bad language

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Sir: Your timely comments ('Notebook', 21 February) on the decline in the standard of English in use in broadcasting apply equally to journalism. For example, was it a...

Rhodesia

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Sir: Two gross misstatements appear in Your editorial of 21 February: numbers of Whites arriving after 1965 and still resident do not exceed those previously living here; and,...

Gulag Capricorn?

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Sir: Forgive the delayed response to your correspondent, Mr Newman of St Albans, but arrival of your publication was delayed because the postman's forked stick broke. Mr Newman...

Not so

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Sir: My attention has been drawn belatedly to your TV critic's review of the Man Alive report (BBC2, 3 February) on public disgrace arising from police harassment of...

Gambling

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Sir: As your readers may know, a Royal Commission on Gambling has been established, under Lord Rothschild's chairmanship, to inquire into the existing law and practice relating...

Railway alert

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Sir: While public opinion has now been widely alerted to the very real danger of a drastic contraction in this country's railway system, much work remains to be done to persuade...

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Books

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An unfinished life William Trevor George Eliot: the Emergent Self Ruby V. Redinger (Bodley Head £6.95) The trouble with writing in depth about novelists is that their novels...

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A saving grace

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Richard Luckett Vico and Herder Isaiah Berlin (The Hogarth Press £6.00) 'What am I? Or from whence? for that I am, 1 know, because 1 think.' So saying Adam, newly created, rises...

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Thrillish

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Duncan Fallowell The Order of Death Hugh Fleetwood (Hamish Hamilton £3.50) Miss Silver's Past Josef Skvorecky (The Bodley Head £3.50) It could be an attribute of Hugh Fleetwood...

Big women

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Francis King Five Sisters edited and translated by Barbara Alpern Engel and Clifford N. Rosenthal (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £6.50) Fathers and Daughters Cathy Porter (Virago in...

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Falling stars

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John Graham The Decline of American Political Leadership Richard Reeves (Hutchinson 0.95) Jerry Ford, failed football coach, and Ronnie Reagan, failed film star, sat beside...

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Radical cheek

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Donald Watt The Left in Britain 1956-1968 David Widgery (Peregrine Books £4.00) David Widgery has put together—that is the only way of describing the process—a book which is...

Baby love

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Nick Totton The History of Childhood: The evolution of parent-child relationships as a factor in history edited by Lloyd de Meuse (Souvenir Press £5.00) 'Nous vivons en enfants...

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Arts

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English art in Milan Bryan Robertson Anyone sauntering through the lofty Galleria in Milan last month in search of an innocent beer or coffee to extend the pleasures of a...

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Opera

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Triumphant Scala Rodney Milnes La Cenerentola and Simon Boccanegra La Scala at Covent Garden When the company from La Scala Milan came to London twenty-five years ago, the...

Theatre

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Young idea Kenneth Hurren City Sugar by Stephen Poliakoff (Comedy Theatre) The Bells by Leopold Lewis (Greenwich) Mates by Peter Kenna (Maximus) There can hardly have been a...

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Cinema

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Moses bathos Kenneth Robinson Moses Director: Gianfranco de Bosio Stars: Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quayle, Ingrid Thulin 'A Dominion (140 mins) Autobiography of a Princess...

Television

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Black & white Jeffrey Bernard I've been watching television from a hospital bed for the past ten days—fade in gipsy violins—and the black and white portable set I've been...