17 SEPTEMBER 1965

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Buller and

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Portrait of the Week

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THE AUGUST 1RADF FIGURES showed a deficit of £52 million, an increase of £47 million over July, a deficit which was described by Mr. Douglas Jay as 'pretty good . . . the import...

Is One Enough?

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You cannot exorcise arithmetic by shout- ing at it to go away.—Spectator leading article, May 14, 1965. Nearly all the judgments that have been passed (and encouraged by Mr....

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MAURITIUS

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Finding a Formula NIGEL FISHER, MP, writes: The constitutional conference to decide the future of Mauritius is now in its second week. This beautiful island in the Indian Ocean...

VIEWS OF THE WEEK

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The Urgent Need OMMONWEALIII inactivity over the India- Pakistan war is no longer excusable. Now that the U Thant mission has failed to achieve some sort of cease-fire, the...

SINGAPORE

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Lee's Choices SIMON HEAD writes from Singapore: Any'euphoria which Lee Kuan Yew, the Singa- pore Prime Minister, may have derived from his state's newly gained independence,...

NEXT WEEK

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Time for a Lib-Lab Showdown DESMOND DONNELLY, Mr also Liberals at Scarborough ALAN WATKINS One year's subscription to the 'Spectator': £3. I 5s. (including postage) in the...

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THE PRESS

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Lord Butler and Mr. Hogg RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL writes: Mr. Quintin Hogg is a brilliant advocate: indeed I have retained him for a forthcoming libel . action; but he is not a...

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Ten Years of ITV

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By STUART HOOD ‘711-1E people of Britain,' said the Beveridge I Report, 'want broadcasting essentially as a public service.' This statement—in so far as it means anything at...

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Sucking the Chairman

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The Speaker's is not the only presidential chair tinder discussion, as it happens. When Perna- trl, ent adjourned for the summer recess it was fairly - certain that Mr. Emanuel...

Portuguese Pleasure

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The Portuguese Foreign Office is enjoying it- self, It has been a long time since it was asked a favour by the British. but not so long since the ,Portuguese asked a favour...

Spectator's Notebook

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T HE' manonivrings around the empty chair of the Speaker have made quite a number 01 people look foolish regardless of the out- come. The activities of Mr. Peter Besse!l have...

About Trees

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Good men plant trees. bad men cut them down: . with this old observation I am in full agreement. But there are trees and trees. I was not pleased to see the encroachment of...

The Proms

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The response to the Spectator's 'study of opinion' at the Proms has been large and enthusiastic. Charles Reid is currently to be glimpsed with great piles of completed question-...

Marginal

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The buzz at Erith is that Labour will select its by-election candidate next Wednesday. (The locally connected and spendidly named Mr. Wellbeloyed is still the favourite.) If you...

--And Finding Another

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But who is to oppose him? The extreme left, as always, wants to make a protest, a gesture; it wants to demonstrate, not to win. Hence the proposal to put up Mr. Will Griffiths,...

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`Plan'—or Fraudulent Prospectus?

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By JOHN BRUNNER rue National Plan contains few major sur- j priseS. The central assumption of 25 per cent growth remains, thus implying a still faster acceleration over the...

THE PLAN-AND THE PROSPECT

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THREE VIEWS OF THE GOVERNMENT'S NATIONAL ECONOMIC PLAN St. George and the Economic Dragon By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT s state documents go the National Plan, with ./„its 492 pages...

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The Political Implications

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By ALAN WATKINS S HORTLY after Mr. James Callaghan's July measures were announced, a member of the Cabinet was due to appear on television. The Minister concerned was sitting...

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The Return of Anastasia

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From MURRAY KEMPTON NEW YORK T utE large fears and the small hopes of the United Nations had all flown away from New York last week on the frail mission of its...

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M ICHAEL BOLUS, currently showing at the Waddington Gallery, is among

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the recently established small number—it isn't a group—of young sculptors hell-bent on redefining not only the entire character of sculpture but also its particular function,...

Let Lloyds Bank help you to plan

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Paris in those days than in London, and he got used to it and stayed on. We were approaching

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If you think my rosy line of reasoning is un-

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realistic or wonder how all this talent could be used in any practical way, let me recall a stroll through the West End several years ago with S. W. Hayter, a good English...

By BRYAN ROBERTSON

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tunities we need for assessing the situation as a whole at any given moment. No complaints in either of these quarters, but the fact remains that until our livelier artists are...

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hygienic pest-control jelly. S. KNOX CUNNINGHAM

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Hamlet at Stratford Sta,—You began your criticism of Hamlet at Strat- ford-upon-Avon with 'It won't do.' Will you allow me to say what it did for me yesterday, and for a...

Give her the gift of confidence

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Grown up. Ready to face the NN odd –give her a good start. A financial gift is always a help, but you can add so much by giving it in her own personal current account with...

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EDINBURGH MUSIC

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' Bouleversed Selves about fresh and often quite experimental compositions. It's far easier to describe a new tonal set-up than write re-creatively about a well- known work of...

but exists as a coolly registered and articulated event in

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its own right, piece by piece. Each sculpture is coloured, and even this retains its independence and absolute freedom from out- side interpretation--and confusion. The colour...

ting better and better. Such possibilities: imagine a skyscraper with

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hectically coloured neon strips shooting around all over it—abstractly, doing weird and wonderful things. . . .' Well, Hayter's work isn't everyone's taste and some of you k...

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Still, it has its points and its moments, its funny

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lines (though not many) and its visual jokes that come off, if always rather too slickly (an Oxfam fund-raising occasion, for instance, contrasts the grotesque glitter with the...

Mr. Croft's production had also its share of the broader

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virtues dependability, careful elo- cution and a nice sense of colour. So had Paul Hill's Troilus and Cressida, with a pretty, wittY Cressid (Charlotte Womersley) and a...

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One of the. most impressive qualities of The Company She

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Keeps is the range of the narra- tive—the stumbling, episodic journey of the New York bluestocking Margaret Sargent, towards some sort of precarious salvation. In all of Mary...

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Swan on a

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A Study in Automatic Writing Transmitted by Geraldine Cummins Edited by Signe Toksvig Foreword by C. D. Broad `a very important book indeed, and one which should be obligatory...

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This has not always saved him from attack by those whose interests lie elsewhere, and be- lieve that no one should be interested in any- thing except what interests them. He has...

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r........ WHOM .... / N 1 .-•.:...... • • a.Se5.- .. _.- 1 I the one guide book on Scotland that remained to be written : the guide book that guides you to nothing —except...

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H UGH SETON -WATSON

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Faithful Portrait? The Art of Biography. By Paul Murray Kendall. (Allen and Unwin, 21s.) NOT the least depressing feature of contempor- ary biography is the paucity of any...

Professor Kendall's thoughts and observations on what he rightly calls

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this 'craft of the impos- sible,' although neither particularly original nor profound, are of interest and value because he has a genuine feeling for the extent, the fascina-...

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In her first novel, The Cactus Land, Mrs. Stern looked

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at apartheid through the eyes of a young African girl. This time her hero is a young . English South African, Sebastian, whose Boer fiancee deserts him in favour of her...

HESTER MAKEIG

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(7'his week Nicholas Davenport writes on page 345.) only can we now look forward to a lower Bank rate, which is good ' for all markets, but the chances of an election early...

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ONE in every five families contains someone who is mentally

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ill--so we are reminded in the current campaign. I find myself wondering how it is pos- sible to arrive at this statistic. Are these actual illnesses which have been reported on...

rom O c Oderth BRITAIN'S LARGEST PRODUCERS OF PIPE TOBACCOS

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OR1 ARTS COUNCIL of Great Britain invites applications for the following posts: 1 Book-keeper/Clerk 1 Schedule Typist 3 Shorthand/Typists 1 Secretary/Shorthand-Typist 1 Postal...

give a bonus of a week's extra paid holiday to

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every employee who has not been off work through illness in the year.) Whenever I see that advertisement—I hate it so much I have never even looked to see what sadist issues...

Such questions, lazily spiralling up like cigarette smoke to the

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surface of my mind every time I see the poster, are not meant to belittle the cause. Nor do I think I feel any personal need to under- rate the number of people involved in...

Raymond Postgate's plain men having all graduated to Morton Shand

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'and Warner Allen, It is the plain boys growing up (and presumably the plain girls, for they'll need some consolation) who will disburse their 18s. on the new edition that...

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SIXTY 'LEISURE TIME' COURSES

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evening and afternoon in Wisdom of Egypt. United States Today. Philosophy, International Affairs, Parharnen , Weekly. Speech Training, Natural History. Gardening. Languages,...

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