26 NOVEMBER 1943

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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fi l HE appalling devastation which has been inflicted on the heart of the city of Berlin on two successive nights by RA.F. bombers is not intended as an act of revenge for the...

In the Lebanon

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The position in the Lebanon has been very substantially eased by the reinstatement of the Lebanese President and the release of the Ministers, the recall of M. Helleu, the...

The Aegean Fiasco The statement made by Mr. Atdee on

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Wednesday regarding the seizure and evacuation of the Aegean islands of Cos, LerOs and Samos goes no appreciable distance towards meeting the criticisms brought against that...

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• Control "

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The word " control" is too often used in current controversy as if it described a complete policy to be embraced on principle or bitterly opposed. Sir Stafford Cripps, speaking...

In the Central Pacific

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The American operations in the Gilbert Islands have not been long-drawn-out like the operations in the Solomons, and have swiftly produced results of considerable importance....

The King's Speech

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The new legislation foreshadowed in the King's Speech indicates the possibility of a heavy programme of Parliamentary work, much of it dealing with tasks of reconstruction. The...

U.N.R.R.A. at Work

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Rapid progress has been made by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in settling principles governing future procedure. In the first place it is made dear...

Imperial Unity

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The fact that thz unity of the British Commonwealth of Nations has been proved in two wars and in the period between them is no reason for neglecting to study the conditions...

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HEREFORD AND MOSLEY

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N ATIONAL sensitiveness at such a time as this to any sug- gestion that the administration of justice, whether by the ordinary courts or in the services or under some- special...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK G IVEN the rather questionable decision that the

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members of the European Advisory Commission should not be persons of Ministerial rank, no better choice on the British side could be made than Sir William Strang. Strang entered...

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LESSONS FROM. LEROS

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By STRATEGICUS AMOS, like Cos and Leros, is now in the hands of the Germans, and, before we begin to applaud the Allied successes elsewhere, may be well to examine what has...

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PROBLEMS OF PARLIAMENT

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By QUINTIN HOGG, M.P. C ORRUPTION is an ugly word. We are wont to think that it has been banished from our public life. And if by this is meant the direct offering or taking of...

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THIS IS AMERICA

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By D. W. BROGAN A MERICANISM, its meaning, its potentialities, its very existence are constantly discussed in America and outside America. What to us and to them is meant by...

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POOR-SOIL LABOURERS

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By JOSEPH CLARK AVING lived all my life in close association with farm labourers, I naturally see things more from their point of view than from the standpoint of farmers or...

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ANDRE ANTOINE

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By EDWARD OWEN MARSH W ITH the death of Andre Antoine in France, Europe loses one of the greatest men of the contemporary theatre. In the first y ear of the German occupation...

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MARGINAL COMMENT

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By HAROLD NICOLSON T HE actions and pronouncements of the French National Com- mittee offer reasonable hope that the Lebanese crisis is on the way to being solved. Much credit...

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THE CINEMA

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The Demi - Paradise is a gay portrait of England coyly revealing herself to an earnest young Russian visiting this country on Soviet Government business. Anthony Asquith, the...

HIGHLY artificial plays such as Congreve's Love for Love and

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Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband require exquisite production and highly acc omplished acting to do. them justice. The present production of An Ideal Husband, directed by Jack...

SENTIMENT IN AUTUMN IN Trinity the chestnuts ripen, Cambridge kindles

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autumn fire, My son and I our baskets bearing Go to seek our hearts' desire. Along the Backs the lawns are sodden, Willows trail their latter green Where our gentle, learned...

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CONSERVATIVES AND CONTROL SIR, —Mr. Maudling's stimulating article suffers, so far

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as his argument on present needs is based on his own interpretation of recent political history, from his assumption that Liberal majorities, when they existed, meant acceptance...

PADRE'S HOUR

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR cannot permit the criticism made by Mr. George Burgess to pass without comment. If in his trip from Alamein he did not observe on certain occasions the...

COAL AND THE FUTURE Stn,—Following upon your article in The

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Spectator of October r5th and the letter from " Coalowner " in your issue of November 12th dealing with " The Coal Crisis," may I raise further points which should be considered...

SIR,—I am indeed sorry that my hypothetical -savage—poor fellow, he

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was really more a child of Hobbes than of history—so provoked the Earl of Mansfield. Otherwise he might have persevered to the concluding sentence of my article, which...

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Consider the galaxy of publishing names in this list: A.

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and C. Black, Blackie, Blackwood, Chambers, Collins, Constable, Macmillan, Murray,

" GREAT BOOK-MAKERS "

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Sta,—The delightful article by Mr. Wilson Harris in your number of November 13th calls for a footnote, for any review of Messrs. Macmillan's achievements during one hundred...

CHURCH PARADE

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SIR,—I am rather startled by the vehemence of Mr. C. S. Lewis's protest against Home Guard Church Parades, and can only suppose that they order this matter better in my area...

EDUCATION AFTER FOURTEEN

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SIR, —The raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen is not yet a fait accompli, but it will be before many years have past. Is there a more urgent and important question than...

A PROBLEM FOR VERBALISTS

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SIR,—Dictionaries, recording, together with " agriculturist," " agricul- turalist," as " one skilled in agriculture " can perhaps hardly be expected to define the latter as "one...

COTTAGERS' LIGHT

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Sta,—It would encroach too much on your valuable space if I were to attempt to deal fully with the interesting comments on my anti le on " Cottagers' Light." The Scott Committee...

SIR, —In your review of The House of Macmillan you say

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in connexion with Morley's " Life " that " the Gladstone family to their great enrichment retained the copyright." That is quite accurate, but may lead to a false inference. No...

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PICTURES ON STAMPS

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"A Spectator's Notebook" of your issue of November 5th you mentioned about a new issue of Polish stamps, and also pointed out that you are " not clear where, if anywhere, the...

Q'S PEN

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Sm,—In his article on Q, in The Spectator of November ii9th, Mr. F. Brittain remarks on Q's historic pen, which he describes as " the stout white-metal pen." But in Q's preface...

Snt,—I think Mr. MacColl is unnecessarily severe on " Janus."

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I am sure that his suggestion that our stamps should be used for national advertising was not meant to include advertising like that of one Central American Republic which...

THE CHURCHES AND EDUCATION

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Snt,—May I associate myself with Mr. Laverty's letter? In these difficult times for the Christian Church it seems to me most important (1) that a Christian Government should...

COUNTRY LIFE

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So many members of the Women's Land Army have expressed their determination to stick to the land—if the phrase is allowed—after the war that the organisers of this great service...

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BOOKS OF THE DAY

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The German Problem Now that the end of the Second German War is in sight this study of Future Germany is most timely. The author endeavours to answer the question posed in his...

The Japanese Background

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Traveller from Tokyo. By John Morris. (The Cresset Press. ros. 6d.) THESE last few months we have seen books, and to spare, that purport to explain the phenomenon of the...

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African Victory

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The End in Africa. By Alan Moorehead. (Hamish Hamilton. los. 6d.) The Conquest of Mirth Africa. (Burke Publishing Company. 2S.) MR. MOOREHEAD'S latest volume was obviously much...

A True Englishman

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Edward Lyttelton. An appreciation by Cyril Alington, D.D., Dean of Durham. (John Murray. 5s.) EXCEPT in the large circle of his friends and neighbours and former pupils Edward...

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Fiction

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Arrival and Departure. By Arthur Koestler. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) THOSE coming after us who may seek in our literature some patho- logical data in Europe's malady in our time...

Ireland : 1172-1922

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Irish Historical Documents, 1172-1922. Edited by E. Curtis and R. B. McDowell. (Methuen. 18s.) Tins collection of documents prepared by the late Dr. Curtis and a younger Irish...

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 244 SOLUTION ON DECEMBER 10th

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The winner of Crossword No. 244 is The HoN. K. CROSS, Ash House, Broughton-in-Furness.

" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 246

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IA Book Token for one guinea wet be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, December 7th. Envelopes...

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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By CUSTOS MARKETS have recovered their poise but not their punch. While the weaker speculative positions have been eliminated and the selling from the main body of investors...

British Postage Stamps. By John Easton. (Faber. 25s.)

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THIS is a book indispensable to stamp collectors and to all interested in postage stamp design. Not only does it relate the history of our stamps, from the first issue on May...

Shorter Notices

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The Unacknowledged Legislator. By Bonamy Dobree. P.E.N. Books. (Allen and Unwin. 2s.) " I LIKE talks about Literature," says a participant of this little symposium in a Warden's...

William Nicholson. By Marguerite Steen. (Collins. 16s.)

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THIS book is written by an enthusiast and suffers by the extravagant assertions of its author. It is true that the artists who are most fashionable, either with contemporary...