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Explosion in Vietnam
The SpectatorE VEN before Parliament debated Vietnam this week a new awareness of the horror and danger of the situation there was apparent. The blowing-up of the American embassy in Saigon,...
— Portrait of the Week IHOUGH AN EFFIGY of the Minister
The Spectatorof Agriculture was publicly burnt in East Anglia, though farmers threatened to turn pigs loose in Piccadilly Circus, and though full-page ads were bought in every possible...
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NEXT WEEK
The SpectatorThe Budget Dissected NICHOLAS DAVENPORT • Appomattox, April 9, 1865 A Peroration a Hundred Years After ALLEN TATE • A. Alvarez on New York One year's subscription to the...
VIEWS OF THE WEEK
The SpectatorMr. Wilson Meets the General From DREW T HERE is less to the visit of Prime Minister Wilson to General de Gaulle than meets the eye. Naturally some interest is attached to...
DEV MURARKA writes from Moscow:
The SpectatorCairo is not just the capital of Egypt, but a major centre of the Afro-Asian world. This a view which Moscow not only believes in but acts upon. Its relations with President...
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THE PRESS Merger Will Out
The SpectatorCHRISTOPHER BOOKER writes: At approximately nine p.m. last Monday, Mr. Raphael Tuck, Labour Member of Parliament for Watford, made the following apparently One might be...
MALAWI Dr. Banda Faces the Rebels
The SpectatorHARRY FRANKLIN writes from Lusaka: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar And the first lion thought the last a bore. The rebellious Mr....
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Spring Song
The SpectatorI think it would be very nice If things got better day by day And nothing ever rose in price And everyone had higher pay. If only doctors drank more milk And dairymen were...
CRIME No Simple Truths
The SpectatorR. A. CLINE writes: Anyone concerned with the practice and organisation of the English criminal law is bound by now to have caught a whiff of the prevailing reformist zeal. The...
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Political Commentary
The SpectatorThe Policy Makers By ALAN WATKINS I N what does the Conservative Party now be- lieve? 'Land of Hope and Glory' may be heard at meetings with happily increasing rarity, but the...
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The Way Ahead for Housing
The SpectatorBy A. J. MERRETT T HE basic problem. of housing in Britain can be summed up as the problem of providing freedom of choice and security of tenure in accommodation when purchase...
Privilege and Free Speech in the US
The SpectatorBy ANTHONY LEWIS T HE current discussion of parliamentary privilege might benefit from a consideration of analogous American practice. The rule in the United States, as...
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QUOODLE SPURLING ting out. In the lean years before they
The Spectatorcould afford a car, they would find themselves regularly washed up after a competition in Manchester or Liverpool, dependent on hitch-hiking or milk- trains to get them back...
On Casual Reading
The SpectatorMr. Barrel took me gently to task last week for referring to 'a chance re-reading of Paradise Lost.' My remark was only too accurate. There is So much to do, so much to read...
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James Callaghan's second budget could result in one of the
The Spectatorheftiest pieces of fiscal legislation Britain has ever seen. The Finance Bill is thought to contain as many as eighty clauses, a prodigious figure compared with those for even...
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From: J. M. Carruthers, Paul Derrick, Philip Skelsey, Charles King,
The SpectatorK. H. Grose, Dr. Royston Lambert, the Headmaster of Mill Hill School, Christopher Hollis, Brocard Sewell, J. Chiari, E. Ackroyd, Leslie Adrian, Mrs. Patricia McCloskey, T. P....
a jitterbugging crowd in drab utility clothing blocking up his
The Spectatorgleaming floor: 'Where was my lovely dancing? Where were all my graceful foxtrots? I said to myself.' He might well have asked where had all his dresses gone. Before the war...
nine increases in the profits tax since 1946 have not
The Spectatorprevented dividends increasing substantially faster than wages. Dividends last year were 12.8 per cent higher than the year before; but if the Government's new corporation...
from work and you're out again most nights.' John and
The SpectatorBetty Westley, the world amateur dancing champions, told me the same thing: 'You're thinking and living it all the time. The deeper you get into it, the deeper it becomes— You...
or engaged are rare on the dance floor, which h
The Spectatornoted as a highly respectable Marriage bureau. I met only one dancer who could remember clearly how and why he began (perhaps because it happened to him rather late in life, at...
comes off the floor after five dances in a com-
The Spectatorpetition, even his tails are soaking,' as an ex- perienced dancer remarked), gloves and shoes (six pairs each per year on average). Affluence is reflected from the glittering...
Should indeed this particular piece of contem- porarily typical public
The Spectatorimpertinence collie into force, the probability is that it would be best to submit to it--even to welcome it—as a means of ensuring that our letters do not get bundled into the...
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King's College, Cambridge
The SpectatorSIR,-1 read with interest the article by Mr. Richard Rhodes James on the public schools in your issue of March 19. He wrote that Mr. Crosland is nego- tiating to open public...
As many of the public-school headmasters and schoolmasters whom I
The Spectatorhave been meeting in the course of my inquiry into boarding education realise, integration in whatever form it comes needs a more robust, positive and flexible approach than...
We have shown at Mill Hill that, given good will
The Spectatoron both sides and given the devotion and under- standing which has been forthcoming from house- masters here, such a scheme as ours works admirably. We are far beyond the...
On what ground does Mr. Seymour-Smith decide that Eliot lacked
The Spectatorsensitivity to the issues of the world he lived in? How has he reached such cost-
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Footnote (and food for thought).—This monu- mental production cost 0,000,
The Spectatordidn't quite fill the house (there were a few thirty-shilling seats left) and took £2,500 at the box office, the rest being met from the LCC and Arts Council grants and an...
Mr. Pinter's central figure is a sanitary- engineering tycoon by
The Spectatorthe name of Disson and we may assume that his hygienic, if sterile, mission is a civilising one: 'We make more bidets than anyone else in England!' He is a cleanser. He purges...
U NDOUBTEDLY during its first and greatest period, from 1909 until
The Spectator1914, it was pri- marily its exoticisms that won the Diaghilev Ballet its enormous following. Western audiences were comparatively uninterested in Les Sylphides, or Carnaval,...
MUSIC International Class
The SpectatorT HE concert performance of The Capture of Troy, first part of Berlioz's opera The Trojans, ended with tumults for Colin Davis, the New Philharmonia Orchestra, the NPO Chorus...
Another single instance will have to suffice as pointer to
The Spectatorthe night's orchestral quality and Davis's gift of adducing 'Berlioz sound.' At the beginning of Act 2, Hector's ghost appears to kneas. The muted horns which haunt and chill...
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David John Robarts, Esq.
The SpectatorDeputy Chairmen: Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, G.C.M.G., R.C.B. Sir Ivan Arthur Rice Stedcford, G.B.E. Chief General Manager: R. F. Smith Joint General Managers: F. A....
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Tan sorry I behaved as I did,' Raskolnikov began, feeling
The Spectatorso completely at ease now that he could not resist the desire to Null. 'I'm afraid I got a little excited.' 'Olt think nothing of it,' Porfiry replied, alnwsi gaily. 'Afraid I,...
'To the funeral, sir.'
The SpectatorI T is no criticism of a good writer to find his life's work contained in a few scenes, a few sentences even, from a great one. To say that most of the best things in the ten...
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In middle age 1 can still enjoy only the first
The Spectatorhundred pages or so of Dr. Howard's edition of the original text, with their pawky humour and rather spinsterish malice: George Pontifex mak- ing conventional responses to...
'The voice of the toads beneath the harrow' —Magdalen Goffin
The Spectatorin the Guardian 'Illusion-shattering . . . startling'—Rosemary Naughton in the Catholic Herald 'An essential for the celibate cleric who may /earn here how married people think...
Literary historians will speculate endlessly about Pound's and Eliot's sarcastic
The Spectatorhostility to Arthur Waley. It was not reciprocated by Waley, who still speaks of both with appreciation and affection. It was not shared by Wyndham Lewis, either. As one who has...
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I seem to have met Bernard Kops's novel before--in the
The Spectatorcompacter form of a television play. Yes front No-man's Land is not fat, how- ever; it is no blown-up dramatic anecdote. Joe I.evene lies in bed in hospital,- dying, though...
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Where policy recommendations are concerned, the lack of co-ordination between
The Spectatorthe essays is even more marked than in evaluation. Policies for South-East Asia have their impact on the Middle East; the cold war in the Far East cannot be considered in...
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ay NICHOLAS DAVENPORT
The SpectatorBudget Advice-2 of both equipment and human attitudes by which alone we can' stop these recurring cycles of balance of payments weaknesses. For this reason we cannot accept—and...
COMPANY MEETING
The SpectatorASHANTI GOLDFIELDS CORPORATION CRIPPLING BURDEN OF GHANA TAXATION Tin , . 68th annual general meeting of Ashanti Gold- fields Corporation Limited was held on March-,30 in...
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The SpectatorD BUILDING SOCIETY D Extracts from the Review of the Society's operations during the year 1964, by the President, Mr. C. J. Dunham, at the Annual General Meeting in London on...
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SUMMARY OF ACCOUNTS FOR 1964
The Spectator1964 1963 £.76,000,000 £62,000,000 £2,662,414 £1,736,312 £1,677,073 £1,421,167 .. £78,288 £67,085 £1,021,301 £705,415 £21,691,405 £16,707,563 £15,788,366 £7,274,386 The...
pre-tax profit figure in excess of last year's £21 million.
The SpectatorThe 5s. shares at 14s. 3d., yielding 6.9 per cent, do not look dear, provided there are no unpleasant budget shocks for the industry. Ashanti Goldfields Sir Edward Spears gave...
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about a year ago with a hard luck story about
The Spectatorhe jumped at the chance of taking it, as a tem- porary measure, at £1 a week, which was half what he had been paying before. It was soon possible to deduce why the Ms had found...
With us, cottage rents are, in theory, paid fort- nightly
The Spectatorand fall due on a Monday; the tenants bring them to the estate office and give the money to my secretary, together with a small, tattered rent-book which I am pretty sure has no...
THERE has been some shirty correspondence in
The Spectatorthe serious dailies about the elaborate packing of shirts, complete with inven- tories of the number of pins, clips, stiffeners and what not. I have before me one such from a...
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27. The universal saving of the quack and his patient!
The Spectator(7) 29. Because the sapper is genuine (7) 30. The shape of' shining eyes, per- haps? (8) 31. Expandable containers (6) DOWN I. Might it produce a rabbit in the field? (3-5) 2....
