16 AUGUST 1963

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POLICE AND PUBLIC

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Stratford Notebook David Watt Persian Perplexities Arnold Beichmtm Concealing Evidence? R. A. Cline A Spectator's Notebook Brian Inglis The Lop - sided Boom Nicholas...

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— Portrait of the Week A HUMILIATING WEEX for the police:

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the biggest mail robbery of all time, and not a trace of the thieves for five days. The hideout was eventually found, but the thieves had already disap- peared. So had the L21-...

POLICE AND PUBLIC

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I T is very understandable that there should be public disquiet over the accounts of police behaviour to witnesses given at the Ward trial. From what was said, in particu- lar...

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No. 7051 Established 1828 FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1963

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Stratford Notebook

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DAVID WATT writes: It seems wildly unlikely that Mr. Macmillan will want to rush to the country this autumn on the basis of the Stratford by-election result. But although the...

NIC and the Builders

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JOHN Coi The crisis in the industrial relations of the building industry has probably been inevit- able since the Chancellor of the Exchequer last December referred to the...

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The Game of Chicken

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OUR COMMON MARKET CORRESPONDENT writes : The 'chicken war' between the United States and the Common Market is a serious busi- ness. But it is not serious in quite the way that...

Concealing Evidence?

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R. A. CLINE writes: Some very odd hares have been started by the 'Lucky' Gordon appeal. Is it really concern about the present state of the law, or just in- satiable curiosity...

Malaysia Postponed

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OUR COMMONWEALTH CORRESPONDENT writes: If Tunku Abdul Rahman can no longer hope that Malaysia will be all right on the night, he can be pretty certain that all will be well two...

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Persian Perplexities

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From ARNOLD BEICIIMAN TEHUR H ow the temptation pursues us to endow friends and allies with charms they lack and virtues they disdain. Like His Iiiiperial Majesty, Mohammad Reza...

Mr. George Wigg, MP Following the publication in our issue

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for July 5 of Mr. Anthony West's article 'McCarthy in Westminster,' we received a complaint by Mr. George Wigg, MP for Dudley, in respect of' the reference to him in that...

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rears, Silent Tears Mr. Foster was speaking on AR's This

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Week programme, which opened with that remarkable interview in which Ronna Ricardo explained why she had lied at the trial. I am chary about using a description like 'rang...

With the 'New Yorker' Irish Reference to that New Yorker

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'middle' (and the old term is singularly appropriate, with such articles meandering interminably down pages hedged on either side with advertisements) re- minds me that in the...

A Spectator's Notebook

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rrHE most convincing explanation I have heard of why the police have acted as they did, in certain cases which have brought the force into disrepute recently, was given by John...

T. P. Rees I was out of the country when

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T. P. Rees died, and missed his obituary notices; I hope they made it plain just how remarkable his ser- vices Were. Some months ago the New Yorker carried an article on the NY...

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An African Prime Minister

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From J. D. F. JONES KAMPALA ILTON OBOTE, Prime Minister of Uganda, is beginning to make a name for himself. The fact is worth noting because Mr. Obote, although the least...

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A Democracy Destroyed

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INTO THE SHADOWS By CONSTANTINE FITZGIBBON It is said with increasing frequency these days that the political, social and moral climate in Britain somehow re- sembles that...

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Rome Relaxed

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By KATE O'BRIEN rrillE word 'Rome' will never imaginably dis- appear from travel dreams or tourists' schedules. There will always be first-timers to stand on the Capitol and...

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POWERS OF THE POLICE

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SIR,—How is it that, using a house warrant, Special Branch Police can seize a citizen's personal address book and dairy and, without a charge being preferred, keep these for...

Sin,--Mr. Co1m Brogan is to be congratulated on writing one

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of the sanest—yet humane—articles on overseas aid yet to be published in a responsible British periodical. Having seen much of the British taxpayers' money used and misused in...

Pride and Poverty Miss Savitri Shahani, D. Barton Powers of

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the Police Miss Jane Buxton Authenticity Anthony Besch Patriarch of the Psyche R. T. Oerton The Princess Casamassima Dr. F. R. Lea vis 'No Trial' Act Ronald Segal Roman Pavement...

PATRIARCH OF THE PSYCHE

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SIR,—Criticising my letter in your issue of August 2, Renee Haynes asserts that the unconscious mind is not primarily a psychoanalytic concept, having been, formulated first by...

AUTHENTICITY

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SIR,—It is surprising that in discussing the justi- fiability of using the harpsichord in performances of music by Bach and his contemporaries David Cairns should not have...

THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA Sul,--Mr. Frank W. Bradbrook writes in your

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issue of August 9: Whether one agrees with Dr. Leavis's views or not, it is necessary to recognise that they sometimes' change. Thus, in his review of the latest volume of the...

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Sta,--Dingle Foot's interesting article prompts me to ask a question

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which some legal pundit might answer, to the edification of your readers : does a man who commits suicide break his bail, so that his sponsors have to fork out? If the object of...

CHRISTIAN BURIAL SIR,—Recently a request was made to the Irish

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Gov- ernment by the British Government to permit the exhumation and reburial in consecrated ground of three British soldiers who lost their lives in Dublin, in the year 1916, in...

ST. DAVID'S THEATRE

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SIR,—Mr. Keidrych Rhys should in my opinion 'whoop with joy,' if he is a true Welshman. In his letter in your issue of July 19 he writes: 'Were it not for the hush-hush artistic...

SIR,---Mrs, Clegg provides the answer to her question in the

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penultimate paragraph of her letter published in last week's Spectator. The only snag with all of us is, of course, money and the prime reason for the regrouping is to attempt...

ROMAN PAVEMENT AT WOODCHESTER

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SIR,---The Roman pavement at Woodchester, near Stroud, Glos.. which for size and excellence of de- sign and execution I have heard described as unsur- passed even in Rome, is...

Sus,—Ruth First (Mrs. Slovo) was commissioned some two years ago

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by the Penguin African Library to produce a book on South West Africa, with special reference to the history of its mandate status and the dispute between South Africa and the...

DRY OLOROSO SHERRIES

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SIR,--How wonderful to see someone saying what I have been crying in the lone vineyards for twenty years : as people get more sophisticated, drinking-wise speaking, they are...

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Cinema

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A Kind of Truth By ISABEL QUIGLY Billy Liar. (Warner; 'A' cer- tificate.) AT first sight John Schlesinger seems to fit very neatly, almost repetitively, into the pattern...

Opera

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Fairy Flute By DAVID CAIRNS HAVING got to know the music of The Magic Flute thoroughly and absorbed its message be- fore I saw ,it on the stage, I could never undergtand, what...

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Theatre

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Old Pike By DAVID PRYCE-JONES The Big House. (Theatre Royal, Stratford, E.)—The Ides of March. (Haymar- ket.) THE New Pike company from Dublin hopes to establish itself in...

Architecture

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Our Villages By TERENCE BENDIXSON The cause of the observations is a few acres of narrow, winding streets, a tight society of different-sized houses and a homespun mixture of...

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BOOKS

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Old Lines for New By JULIAN SYMONS T HE trouble with the young is that they become middle-aged. The trouble with new lines is that they soon become old lines, blurred by...

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A Question of Proportion

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Re-Appraisals : Some Commonsense Readings in American Literature. By Martin Green. (Hugh Evelyn, 30s.) 'A SCHEME of literary values which promotes Faulkner above Emerson, which...

An Intolerable Story

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Paulus and Stalingrad. By Walter Goerlitz. (Methuen, 50s.) l'itEv't,t be taken straight back to Moscow and handed over to the GPU; and they'll be issuing orders to the rest of...

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Tip-and-Run in Turkestan

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The Traoscaspian Episode 1918-1919. By C. H. Ellis. (Hutchinson, 30s.) IN the summer of 1918 General Malleson, with a handful of troops and a small staff (on which the author of...

Hardly Anything Bears Watching

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Hardly anything bears watching. Bricks and stone Have lost their intense surprise.' For years I kept my trust in things. Even beyond the last parishes Fringed with refuse,...

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Firework Display

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A Precocious Autobiography. By Yevgeny Yev- tushenko. Translated by Andrew R. Mac- Andrew. (Collins and Harvill, 16s.) THE last time I saw Yevtushenko was when I stopped him...

Gilded Bankrupts

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The Poet and the Gilded Age : Social Themes in Late 19th Centdry American Verse. By Robert H. Walker. (Pennsylvania Uni- versity Press and O.U.P., 60s.) MR. WALKER proposes to...

Top of the Maithili Pops

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Love-Songs of Vidyapati. Translated by Deben Bhattacharya. Edited by W. G. Archer. (Allen and Unwin, 30s.) THERE ought to be, and are, more reasons than the necessary...

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The Unities Mastered

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A Life. By Italo Svevo. Translated by Archibald White. (Gollancz, 18s.) ONE comes to Mr. Purdy's new book with ex- pectation sharpened not only by his high repu- tation as a...

Dyfed

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Shell Guide to South-West Wales : Pembroke- shire and Carmarthenshire. By Vyvyan Rees. (Faber, 15s.) HERE'S a zestful guide, and full of meat. The author, in spite or because of...

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The Lop-sided Boom

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By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT How silly to headline a too optimistic report from the National Institute of Eco- nomic and Social Research as 'good news from the eco- nomists'! Surely...

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Investment Notes

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By CUSTOS H AVING reached a new two-year peak last week—the Financial Times index touched 323, which is nearly 28 per cent above the low point of 253 onJune 25, 1962—the...

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The Way We Live Now

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How to Dispose of Unwanted Children By LEO BERRY A old as the human race itself is the problem of how to get . rid of one's redundant children; i.e., children 'surplus to...

Company Notes

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By LOTHBURY A N extract from the annual report of Mr. Harry Oppenheimer. chairman of Nehanga Consolidated Copper . Mines, was given in our last issue. Three significant points...

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Afterthought

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By ALAN BRIEN W FIEN I was about fourteen, my father gave me a book called What Every Boy Should Know. It was an odd thing for him to do, for in our house I was the one who...

Consuming Interest

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On Deposit By LESLIE ADRIAN BANKING is a secretive busi- ness, though with what justi- fication for concealment of, for example, reserves in their annual accounts I have never...