27 AUGUST 1943

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WAR IN THE EAST

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I N the joint statement issued by Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt from Quebec it was emphasised that the military dis- cussions turned very largely on the war against...

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THE NEXT SIX WEEKS

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T HE Quebec Conference,, which ended on Tuesday, had sat for one day short of a fortnight. Though by the nature of things no detailed decisions can be announced, or even...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK T HE various comments on the recall of

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M. Maxim Litvinov from Washington rather ignore the fact that no announcement has yet been made as to what the nature of M. Litvinov's new work will be ; the interpretation to...

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KHARKOV AND BEYOND

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By STRATEGICUS T HE capture of Kharkov is a spectacular event, and it is greater, and not less, than at first sight appears. It has been stated that Hitler insisted that the...

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AMGOT MEN

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By PETER MATTHEWS The tasks which fall to the Civil Affairs Officer are of peculiar complexity and delicacy. In areas which only a few hours previously were battlefields, he...

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IN A FLYING FORTRESS*

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By COL. CORNIGLION-MOLINIER F I VE o'clock in the morning; a knock on my door and Captain Fox tries to whistle the reveille, which is almost the same in the American as in the...

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EQUALITY

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By C. S. LEWIS I AM a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends...

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MARGINAL COMMENT •

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By HAROLD NICOLSON HAVE been reading this week an interesting book which has I been published recently in the United States upon the subject of the German temperament. It is...

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THE THEATRE

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Ti - us new musical play, which certainly derives from the great success of Show Boat, should also prove successful. It is a story of New Orleans on the Mississippi in the...

SONG OF FAREWELL

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LONG is the Spring and long the Summer too ; Slowly the roses bloomed, and slowly fell ; Each year within my heart I felt renew Sorrow and joy's alternate festival. Joyous,...

" Action in the North Atlantic." At Warners and the

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Regal. THE CINEMA " Dear Octopus." At the Gaumont and the Marble Arch Pavilion. —" Dixie." At the Plaza.—" Coney Island." At the Odeon. IN Action in the North Atlantic we...

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PUNISHMENT OF WAR CRIMINALS

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Snt,—I am unique among Englishmen. I consider that there is something to be said for hitting an enemy when he is down. I am not one of those who, having...

Sta,—Again Mr. Harold Nicolson returns to the theme of the

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war criminals (in your issue of August 13th) and again Mr. Lyall in the issue of August zoth takes up the cudgels on the side of condign punishment of these miscreants. Mr....

BRITISH AND RUSSIAN YOUTH

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Stn,—Your editorial of August zoth draws attention to the opportunities which now exist for establishing better relations with Russia through increased mutual understanding. The...

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Sm,—The first paragraph of Mr. R. L. Reiss's letter is

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devoted to arguing that the " trade's business is to sell drink," and suggests, by implication, this is only a secondary consideration at Carlisle, where the public-houses are...

• COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

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Sm,—In his important article on " Insularity in Education " Sir Fred Clarke says : " So far as I am aware there is not so much as a lecture- ship in any British University...

THE CARLISLE SYSTEM

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SLR, —Mr. Mammatt does well to mention Mr. Pickwick's " genial mine- host from behind the bar," one thing which the Modern capitalist brewery has virtually extinguished. In so...

DOCTORS AND THE STATE

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Snt,—You remind your readers that doctors at the outset strenuously opposed the first National Health Insurance measure. True, and they only submitted to force majeure , as they...

SIR,—The answer to Mr. Mammatt is a short but fully

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convincing one . In this area it is not unusual to see on the closed door of a public-house. "No Beer." There is no beer to sell hence the public-house is closed.

A DEFEATED GENERATION

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Sut,—Apparently two conditions effected the self-realisation to which Mr. Rumbold refers. One was the knowledge that we were fighting for our lives. Danger fired the imagination...

PARENTS AS MANAGERS

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SIR,—I am interested in the correspondence on this subject, particularly as Hilda Oakeley alluded to my article, " Our Village School." There was no room in that article to...

LIVING ROOM

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SIR, —Your correspondent may be . paying our work in St. Pancras an exaggerated compliment in saying that it is " the only housing estate where family life is considered of any...

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Success Storyteller

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Call No Man Happy. By Andre Maurois. (Jonathan Cape. 12s. 6c1.1 MONSIEUR MAURO'S (or should we say Sir Andre?) has been re- morselessly dogged by success. His school career was...

BOOKS OF THE DAY

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The Princes of India The Making of the Indian Princes. By Edward Thompson. (Oxford University Press. 2os.) Tests book is to be welcomed, for it directs attention to one often-...

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Divided France

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Hitler Divided France. By G. and W. Fortune. (Macmillan 6s.) FRENCHMEN who succeed in making their way to this country have hitherto been asked to sign a declaration that they...

Guide to Post-war Problems

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Agenda for a Post-war World. By J. B. Condliffe. (Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.) THE literature of post-war reconstruction is already a large one, as, indeed, befits the importance...

American Views of Japan

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Year of the Wild Boar. By Helen Mears. (Peter Davies. 12s. 6d.) With Japan's Leaders. By Frederick Moore. (Chapman and Hall. 158.) PLENTY of books these days set out to...

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Shorter Notices

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Not Peace, But a Sword. By W.-Com. R. P. M. Gibbs, D.S.O.,D.F.C, (Cassell. los. 6d.) THIS book, while almost as absorbing as Richard Hillary's, is as different as possible from...

Fiction

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For My Brother. By Lincoln Kirstein. (Hogarth. 8s. 6d.) The French Prisoner. By Phoebe Fenwick Gaye. (Cape. ros. 6d.) Oliver Wiswell. By Kenneth Roberts. (Collins. 12S. 6d.)...

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" THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 233 IA Book Token for

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one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the fi rst correct whaion of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, ,s,ptember 7th. Envelopes should be...

SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 231 10th

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The winner of Crossword No. 231 is CANON P. HALSEY, Great Gaddesden Vicarage, Hemel Hempstead, Hens. We regret the omission of clue for 25 down it Crossword No. 232. It should...

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Only an Ocean Between. By Leila Secor Florence. (Harrap- 6s.)

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Tills is the first volume in a series planned as a comparative study of British and American life. The reader is offered three types of information through the media of text,...

COUNTRY LIFE

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ON a grouse moor, where as a rule some hundred brace are shot on a succession of days, five sportsmen destroyed two old birds and one half- grown youngster. The season was both...

The Track. By Arturo Barea. (Faber. has. 6d.) IT may

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be his Century but the Common Man seems to get un- commonly little out of it, if his favourite chroniclers are to be believed : limelight shows him more than ever the victim of...