29 OCTOBER 1943

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HIS week the United States Senate has been resolving itself

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into NEWS OF THE WEEK a great debating society to discuss the principles and outline a programme of American post-war foreign policy. It had before it a resolution moved by...

Can Germany pay Reparations ?

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The miserable fiasco of the reparations clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, and the vain attempts to secure payments from Germany which would not do more harm to those who...

Marshal Badoglio's / Policy Marshal Badoglio made a clear and

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uncompromising statement to a special correspondent of The Times in an interview which was reported last Monday. He did not spare Mussolini, whom he holds solely responsible for...

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The Prisoners' Stories

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It will be long before the 3,500 repatriated' prisoners of war will have finished telling their stories in full, and doubtless if those stories were collected they would...

Italians in Arms Factories

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The War Office has denied a statement published in some papers that commandants of prisoners-of-war camps had been instructed to prepare lists of Italian prisoners skilled in...

The Churches and Education

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The attitude adopted by the Archbishop of Canterbury at his Diocesan Conference on Monday and by Dr. S. M. Berry for the Free Churches in a letter in The Times on Wednesday is a...

The Electoral Register

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The Parliament (Elections and _Meeting) Bill which had its second reading last Tuesday is not a major measure of electoral reform, and it does not deal with the question of...

Belgo-Dutch Statesmanship

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Belgium and Holland have taken a wise step, and set a good example to other European States, in concluding an agreement to stabilise monetary relations between them. A permanent...

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A UNITED STRATEGY ?

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W HOLEHEARTEDLY as the citizens of this country must, and do, rejoice at the spectacular Russian successes on the Dnieper, there is undeniably a sense of uneasiness that it...

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A SPECTATO R'S NOTEBOOK T HE affair of the Hereford magistrates—about

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which I cannot write even if I wanted to, since it is sub judice—has raised again the eternal question of the respective merits of stipendiary magis- trates and lay Justices of...

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" SUPER-BATTLE "

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By STRATEGICUS T HERE can be little doubt about the dimensions and the issues of what the Germans call the Uberschlacht—" super-battle "- in Russia. In range and gravity it...

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OURSELVES AND RUSSIA

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By VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH, M.P. The man in the street is very ignorant, even now, about Russia. The country was so far away ; Marshal Stalin seetned such a mysterious figure...

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COTTAGERS' LIGHT

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By LIEUT.-COL. C. WALEY COHEN E LECTRICITY-SUPPLY is a comparatively young industry. As an inevitable consequence, it has since 1910 been in a chronic state of outgrowing its...

EMPLOYMENT AND MOBILITY

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By PROFESSOR A. C. PIGOU I N current discussions of employment policy great stress is laid on securing an appropriate level of aggregate money demand for the output of industry...

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THE ESSENTIAL TANK

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By S. S. HAMMERSLEY, M.P. " W HEREVER German tanks come up against our new 17. pounder guns the German tanks are knocked out "—this we learn in recent dispatches from Italy. In...

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FACTORY DISCUSSIONS

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By AMABEL WILIAMS-ELLIS 1 T is not impossible for anyone who has ever lived in a school, I a college, a battalion, or a hospital, to imagine the life of a present-day war...

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MARGINAL COMMENT

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By HAROLD NICOLSON E VER since Mr. Churchill made his famous allocution at Harvard the newspapers have been full of correspondence and articles on the subject of -Basic...

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A CONTEMPLATION OF COUNTRY CHILDREN •

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Tits world is paved with children, chattering with song, Or overturning spheres of thoughts and words, their heritage of earth Weaving like threads within their minds, their...

THE

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" The Dark River." At the Whitehall.—" She Follows Me About." At the Garrick. MR. RODNEY ACKLAND'S The Dark River is a serious play with an interesting idea which, if not new,...

THE CINEMA

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The Lamp Still Burns." At the Leicester Square Theatre:— " Holy Matritnony." At the Tivoli.—" The Volunteer." At the Odeon. THE production of The Lamp Still Burns was begun by...

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REPERTORY THEATRES

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SIR,—The protest of Mr. John Duff and the letter of Mr. John Bourne overlook one- important factor. The audience. They it is who get the performances they...

Sta,—I have read with very great interest the opinions expressed

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in The Spectator on this subject by 'Mr. Duff and Mr. Bourne. Mr. Duff assures us that what is wrong with the Repertory Theatre is that produc- tion, where it exists at all, is...

EDUCATION IN POOR AREAS

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SIR, —While there is yet time, will you allow me to call attention to one vital consideration in the Government's proposals for educational recon- struction? It concerns the...

THE ELEVENTH HOUR

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Sta,—I would certainly take no exception to Professor Brogan's reasoned and indeed good-humoured reply to my attack on him tor his book- review in The Spectator of Professor...

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SIR,—Having read Mr. Fyfe's article on public school education and

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also Mr.• Rainsford's letter in answer to it, I feel I must bring to light one point which I consider both of them to have omitted ; that is that a public school training,...

TOLERANCE

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Sta,—I 'wonder whether the discussions so far going on separately under the headings of " The Eleventh Hour " and " Sleep No More " might not in some respects be combined under...

FILMS AND THE YOUNG

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Sta,—From time to time it is suggested in The Spectator correspondence that the films are the chief source of danger to youthful morality. This, of course, is a debatable...

CHARACTER AND SCHOOL

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suz,—It is because of my intense interest in the development of youth that I venture to write to you on this question of School and Character. Mr. Hamilton Fyfe has written an...

Sitt,—You will have had many letters on the subject of

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Mr. Hamilton Fyfe's article on " Character and the Public Schools " in your issue of October 15th. It reads almost as if it were put up as a cockshy to invite criticism. Surely...

SACRIFICES IN TIME OF PEACE

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Sta„—Mr. A. F. Robertson's letter recalls a report which the corre- spondent of a London paper sent from the United States a few years ago. "However much sympathy," he wrote in...

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A NATIONAL POLICY

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SIR,—In his letter published in The Spectator of October 15th Mr. A. F. Robertson expresses great anxiety at the prospect of being asked to make continued sacrifices after the...

SOUTH WIND

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Sts,—It would be interesting to know why so many of the letters you publish are from people living in the South of England. In your issue of October 15th all the letters are...

HAZLITT

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SIR,—Mr. Vulliamy's dark and forbidding picture of Hazlitt calls for some relief. It is furnished by Charles Lamb, who had the advantage over Mr. Vulliamy of living in the...

THE DESERT ARMY

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StR,—May I congratulate " Strategicus " on his article on the anniversary of Alamein and his remembrance and appreciation of the fighting of the original desert force with then...

COUNTRY LIFE

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COUNTRYMEN throughout England are afraid that the planners, a noisy legion, are bent on urbanising the rural in a vain desire to ruralise the urban. Among their number are an...

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Portugal's Experiment

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Salazar. By F. C. C. Egerton. (Hodder and Stoughton. us.) BOOKS about Portugal have been appearing with almost miraculous opportuneness, to supplement the chatty paragraphs - of...

BOOKS OF THE DAY

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Epistle to the English Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. By Joseph A. Schumpeter. (Allen and Unwin. tss.) As the technical resources of economics have grown more refined,...

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" Land of Comfort II/

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Greenland. By Vilhjalmar Stefansson. (Harrap. 128. 6d.) MR. STEFANSSON is the author of many books qn the far north, including The Friendly Arctic (1921) and Unsolved Mysteries...

The Persuasive Voice

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Voice of Civilisation An Enquiry into Advertising. By Denys Thompson. (Muller. 7s. 6d.) THE editor of English_in Schools has given us an extremely able and well-balanced account...

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Fiction

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Gideon. Pianists. By Sinclair Lewis. (Cape. 9s. 6d.) The Time Between. By Gale Wilhelm. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.) Sun Over the Palms. By Paschoal Carlos Magno. (Constable....

A Great Foundation

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Trinity College. By G. M. Trevelyan, O.M. (Cambridge University Press. 6s.) TRDITIT COLLEGE, Cambridge, is the largest college in either univer- sity, and can make a strong...

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SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No. 240 SOLUTION ON NOVEMBER 12th The

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winner of Crossword No. 240 is A. M. SLINN, Longview, Hailsham ad, Heathfield, Sussex.

THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 242

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[.4 Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct ,o'unon of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week, N, t ember gth....

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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By CUSTOS AT various points it is now possible to discern the influence of the improving course of war events on the nation's financial machinery. As I emphasised here last...

Shorter Notice

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ONE approaches a collection of this kind with reverence. (How can one reviewer hope to assess the valuable contributions of seven specialists?) In this case the reverence soon...