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MR. LLOYD'S LONG LOSER
The SpectatorMr. Lloyd's advisers appear to have the impression, or at least the hope, that a contrac- tion of the home market will prompt manufac- turers to look abroad for an outlet for...
Portrait of the Week
The Spectator`THE DREARY OLD WEAPONS of increases in bank rate and purchase tax' was the Liberal Parlia- mentary Party's description of the Chancellor of the Ekchequer's proposals to meet...
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Tragedy of Errors
The SpectatorT outbreak of fighting between French and 1 Tunisian forces at Bizerta was a tragedy; it will become a catastrophe, if it is allowed to continue. It was the kind of incident...
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The SpectatorO UTSIDE those authoritarian countries l'''''4 a staged 99 per cent. 'Yes' vote , d sometimes regarded as useful for publicity i/w poses, there can rarely have been so pelP a l:...
The Tap and the Plug-hole
The SpectatorW HEN the United States Secretary of Defence arrived in London this week it was reasonable to suppose he had come to request British co-operation in strengthening NATO forces in...
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Through the Brandenburg Gate
The SpectatorBy ANTHONY HARTLEY cl ow. time this autumn or early winter France, Great Britain and the US are going to have to sit down at a table and negotiate with the Soviet Union about...
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Singapore Storm Signals
The SpectatorBy DERRICK SINGTON A CLOUD considerably larger than a man's hand has appeared over Singapore. Recent events have rocked the People's Action Party (PAP) Government which has...
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A Bank of Africa
The SpectatorBy JOHN FOSTER, QC* A Private Member's motion dealing with in- vestment in Africa has been tabled in the House of Commons; to be debated, it is hoped, before the recess. The...
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Letter of the Law
The SpectatorGanging-up By R. A. CLINE A NYONE who supposed that the fi lm l'ttz All Right, Jack was a distortion of the facts of trade union life or the last word on the subject should...
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The SpectatorYou might be unable to buy the Spectator when you go on holiday, as newsagents do not carry surplus stock. To make sure of receiving your Spectator send us your holiday address...
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The Bootleggers (2)
The SpectatorKeep Away from Bootleg Hooch By KENNETH ALLSOP ` , THE era of clear thinking and clean living,' as Prohibition was exultantly hailed by ji the Anti-Saloon League at the dawn of...
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How she will meet a
The SpectatorS PAIN has won great credit for her achieve- ments in industrial expansion during the last fifteen years: in particular, steel, cement and engin- eering have pushed ahead...
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The denunciation of certain critics delivered from the stage of
The Spectatorthe Opera House on the last night— loudly applauded by the large audience—was, for once, one felt, quite justified. Mr. Barnes need not, however, feel that he is among those...
As a former PRO to the City of Westminster I
The Spectatorfind this all very depressing. Still, those of us who owe an ancient loyalty to Middlesex can take some comfort in the fact that the battle to preserve a natural society has...
wonder if I am alone in finding an un- warrantable
The Spectatornote of self-satisfaction in the reply by a British Railways official to Mr. Cyril Ray's stric- tures. Is it perhaps true that this self-satisfaction lies at the root of many of...
SIR,—I was interested in Leslie Adrian's 'Share My Dressing' of
The SpectatorJuly 14, an interesting date to have selected for a discussion on mayonnaise with its long pre-revolutionary history. The curious thing is that not once in this article was...
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'the whole dramatic and moral point of the opera is
The Spectatorlost.' That difficulty is overcome by the imagi- native skill of Henze. But by that time the seeds of disbelief, weakening at any rate the dramatic and moral point, have already...
But it is a highly stimulating and worthwhile game, and
The Spectatoron the whole Glyndebourne play it very well. Kerstin Meyer is superb as Carolina, Elisabeth Soderstrom makes a moving and poetic Elizabeth and Thomas Hemsley (the doctor) a...
completed, and the opera ends with a public reading by
The Spectatorthe freshly garlanded Mittenhofer.
Auden was wise not to spell out the Elegy; the
The Spectatorrisks, even if the librettist be himself a genius, were too big. The libretto is enormously enjoy- able. It is the familiar Auden world of the moun- tain (not F6 but the equally...
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_Fifteen television talks by some of Britain's leading scientists, illustrated—order
The Spectatorthrough booksellers-121M—published by Methuen's for — GRANADA TV II IN THE PACE 0 Amalgamating i $0 011:50 ram w g trirri s; " F 's g t e i r r i are br- Sir gdwg fd AP...
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The Same Mistake
The SpectatorBy PETER FORSTER ONE characteristic of the Bour- bon Broadcasting Corporation is that it neither learns nor for- gets. Surely their experience with Sid Caesar had taught the...
THE purchase by the National Gallery of a landscape with
The Spectatorfigures widely and reasonably believed to be by Giorgione has attracted less attention than it deserves, far less, for in- stance, than the almost simul- taneous purchase of two...
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BY now precious little of the debris of those times
The Spectatorhas not been sieved through and served up in scores of military memoirs, biographies, analyses and apologia. Most of them are at odds with one another about everything under the...
Mr. Clark's reaction to the faraway scandals of the 1914
The SpectatorWar is interesting. He agrees that to his generation—which did not even experience the Second Word War—the First 'is as remote as the Crimean, its causes and its personnal...
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Africa Rising
The SpectatorThe New Africa. By Smith Hempstone. (Faber, 45s.) I Speak of Freedom. By Kwame Nkrumah. (Heinemann, 25s.) N OWADAYS age is probably as important as class in determining how...
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seeing (though dimly) that America could no longer remain isolated
The Spectatorfrom foreign conflicts, that the federal government must assume far greater control over the national economy, that the labour unions must become major nego- tiators, and that...
Fleming
The SpectatorGOODBYE TO THE BOMBAY BOWLER `This last Strix selection from the Spectator indicates no scraping of the barrel-bottom. These twoscore pieces buoyantly uphold Mr Fleming's...
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PROBATION
The Spectatorthe second chance JOHN ST. JOHN For the first time, an authentic, comprehensive account of the use of probation against crime. The case histories provide absorbing insight into...
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Promptly the Mistral. getting icily up Off Ventoux's slopes, at
The Spectatorone blow fells velleity, Stirs how and why. more pointing to more ends. Whatever year it is, seems (as it were) Volatilized, lost in the view—granting we retrench Infers a...
tempting to put criticism aside, and give it puffs
The SpectatorBRIAN INGLIS Sunday Painters Modern Primitives. By Oto Bihalji-Merin. (Thames and Hudson, 4 gns.) IT had to come, I suppose : a very intense, fat little book on naïve...
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The Board recommends a final dividend of 30%, plus a
The Spectatorcash bonus of 10%, which makes a total distribution for the year of 55% on the one class of issued share capital as enlarged by the one for five free scrip issue made last year....
IF I were really Chancellor I would resign rather than
The Spectatorhand out the dreary 'mixture as before' prescribed by these short-sighted practitioners at the Treasury. Diagnose an 'overload' on the economy (a questionable diag- nosis) and...
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The picture presented by White Products sales, however, is by
The Spectatorno means so attractive. We are up against the ability of the Oil Companies to produce solvents by the use of modern techniques. When one bears in mind, in addition, the doubt...
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Cheap sunglasses seldom carry brand names, except for the misappropriated
The Spectatorname of Crookes —which by itself is meaningless. The original Crookes (Sir William, OM, FRS) never bothered to register the name of the protective glass which he invented, with...
Consuming Interest EACH sunny summer about two million of us
The Spectatorspend anything from four shillings to as many pounds in order to gaze at the world through darkly coloured glass. Optically speaking, most of that money is wasted. Or so I any...
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The Spectatorin classi- Mng material about overseas aid programmes, and with ability to work same into news- releases. Starting salary about £600. Apply Oxfam, 17 Broad Street, Oxford,...
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