30 NOVEMBER 1956

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ANTI-AMERICANISM

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NTI-AMERICANISM in this country is stronger now than it has been for years. Mr. Julian Amery, MP, feels himself able to say : 'The British have never before been so badly...

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THE SYRIAN POWDER KEG

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E VER since the Anglo-French intervention in Egypt there have been threatening noises from the direction of Syria. The last week has seen an increasing spate of rumours which...

MOLOTOV INTELLIGENCE

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MOLOTOV, the deposed Russian foreign minister, made a sensational comeback last night.—Daily Sketch, November 22. THE APPOINTMENT is regarded here [Warsaw] as a demonstrative...

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MORE REPRESSION

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A WEEK ago Sir John Harding told the Cypriots that, owing to the intensification of the EOKA campaign, the Govern- ment had no option but to impose sterner penalties on...

MONSTROUS BARBARISM

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A T the time of writing the exact extent of the expulsion orders made by the Egyptian authorities against British and French nationals and people of Jewish extraction is still...

Portrait of the Week

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M OST of the news this week has been concerned with either the Middle East or Eastern Europe. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd, has been defending the British action in...

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Avoiding War

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M R. DULLES is convalescing in Florida, and it will be several weeks before he is able to resume his duties in Washington. It may be that ill-health will prevent him from ever...

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OLYMPICS INTELLIGENCE

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DEREK JOHNSON battled to within six inches of the Gold Medal. News Chronicle, November 27. JOHNSON misses gold medal by a foot. Evening Standard, November 26, EIGHTEEN...

Political Commentary

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By Our Political Correspondent A can be a useful barometer of party mood : and how that PART from its parliamentary significance Question Time mood has changed during the month...

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SOME MONTHS AGO I commented on the criticism by John

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Barber, of the Daily Express, of a midnight matinee in aid of the Actors' Orphanage. Mr. Barber was impressed only by the 'glorious' singing of Alfred Drake : unfortunately for...

A Spectator's Notebook

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A FEW WEEKS ago the Spectator printed an engaging parody of Tom Driberg's description, in an English newspaper, of his meeting with Guy Burgess in Moscow. Never imagining that...

MR. BURGESS'S passion for accuracy does not extend to his

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quotations either from myself or from Khrushchev. I called his remark about Beria not 'false' but 'ridiculous.' And the sen- tence he gives from Khrushchev should start : 'In...

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Europe and Russia

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EY HUGH SETON-WATSON* H UNGARIAN resistance is still continuing. The general strike is in its fifth week—surely a record in the history of industrial labour. Hunger and despair...

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The Coming Crisis in Medicine

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By BRIAN INGLIS D UR1NG the present century a change has taken place in the nature of illness. In Britain today, well over 40 per cent. of hospital beds are in mental hospitals;...

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Agriculture in the British Economy

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BY JACK DONALDSON INDING up the conference held by ICI to discuss the place of agriculture in the British economy, Sir Alexander Fleck suggested that the time has come for a...

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City and Suburban

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By JOHN BETJEMAN T HE sad death of Rupert Annand, at Bath, who used to be one of the best producers in that best of BBC depart- ments, the Western Region at Bristol, prompts me...

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A Weakness for Bugbears

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p ERHAPS it is because we are a maritime nation that we so seldom look at an atlas. From the huge land-masses, swarming with intransigent foreigners, we avert our eyes until...

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SIR,—I quote from the Spectator of August 3, 1956, under

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the heading 'Safeguarding Suez': 'Whatever the result of the present consulta- tions in London one thing is certain. Events in the Middle East have made a reorientation of...

Letters to the Editor

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The Suez Crisis Professor D. W. Brogan, Grace Graham, Shane Leslie Conscience and Constituents Nigel Nicolson, MP Hungary Zoltan Szabo Burgess on Pharos Guy Burgess THE SUEZ...

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SIR,—I have been more distressed by our action in Egypt

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than by any other pblitical event since I became a Member of Parliament. Most of my Conservative electors feel equally strongly that our action was right. But apart from its...

BURGESS ON PHAROS

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— In 'A Spectator's Notebook' for November 2 Pharos writes of some 'plainly false statements' of mine which he finds in Mr. Driberg's articles. 'For instance,' he writes,...

SIR,—The whole body of Hungarian intel- lectuals has issued the

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following Manifesto: 'The Future Pattern of Life for the Hungarian People Appeal of the Hungarian intellectuals to their countrymen 'In the past weeks the Hungarian people has...

SIR.--A reader of thirty years' standing has sadly withdrawn. As

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an older reader returning let me cheer you up. More than fifty years ago I surreptitiously read you at Eton, thereby incurring suspicion of being a pro-Boer! I have no right to...

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Covent Garden

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THE revival of Otello at Covent Garden last week was the first production this season in which the performance has risen—on the first nights at any rateabove a rather dull...

Contemporary Arts

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Poor Show VARIETY, you would have thought, would be something the commercial boys would really know about. Every veteran operator in show business seems lined up, dinner-jacket...

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The Perfect Circle

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SOMEWHERE in Claudel's voluminous and anguished correspondence with Gide he describes his idea of Christopher Columbus, remarking that his greatness did not lie in the discovery...

Soothing Mixture

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FRIENDLY PERSUASION. (Empire.)—LOSER TAKES ALL. (Carlton.)—THE LAST WAGON. (General release.) WILLIAM WYLER'S Friendly Persuasion is in a particular Hollywood, but not really...

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS

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For the Very Young TIM ALL ALONE. By Edward Ardizzone. (O.U.P., 10s. 6d.) THE VEGETABULL. By Jan Le Witt. (Collins, 8s. 6d.) THE FAIRY Dom- By Rumer Godden and Adrienne Adams....

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Nine to Fourteen

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THE MUG'S GAME. By Veronica Westlake. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 10s. 6d.) THE BIG WAVE. By Pearl S. Buck. (Methuen, 1 Is. 6d.) 'WHAT I want,' said an emphatic voice, 'is a...

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Adventure Unlimited

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10s. 6d.) THE ATOM CHASERS. By Angus Mac Vicar. (Burke, 7s. 6d.) 10s. 6d.) SECOND MEETING. By Kathrene Pinkerton. (Bodley Head, 9s. 6'd.) CHORISTERS' CAKE. By William Mayne....

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Information Received

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A PICTURE HISTORY OF CANADA. By Clarke Hutton. (0.U.P., 12s. 6d.) A LURKING didactic streak sometimes leads the enterprising god- parent to revolt from the quest for...

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Old Favourites

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FOUR TO FOURTEEN. By Kathleen Lines. (O.U.P., 16s.) THE ENCHANTED CASTLE. By E. Nesbit. (Benn, 12s. 6d.) HEIDI. By Johanna Spyri. (Puffin Books, 3s.) BAFFLED by abundance, the...

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BOOKS

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The Saga Unfolds BY J. H. PLUMB T HIS second volume of Sir Winston Churchill's history* is every bit as good as the first and, in many ways, much more interesting. There was...

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Reticent Mystic

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THE LEITERS OF WILLIAM BLAKE. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. (Hart-Davis, 50s.) ARROWS OF DESIRE. By William Gaunt. (Museum Press, 21s.) WE shall be disappointed if we expect to...

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Symphony in .G

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,uY Bottoms: A Portrait with Background. By Torn Driberg. (Wcidenfeld and Nicolson, 12s. 6d.) F-F-F•FOOLI said Whistler, when some journalist complained that his Symphony was...

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New Novels

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IF you write down the plot of Mary Lee Settle's 0 Beulah Land (Heinemann, 18s.), it looks quite remarkably like that of a score of Amber-coloured historical romances : which...

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11 1 1E1 LEI 1 B Dr

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. . AND THE USUAL OFFICES' John Wood NEWCOMER TO THE CITY Fraser Johnson TAVERNS AND CHOP HOUSES John Bowen THE SELF-EMPLOYED A. R. Penterville THE JOLT BACK TO ECONOMIC REALITY...

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Newcomer to the City

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By FRASER JOHNSON 0 NE of the peculiarities, and one hopes, one of the advantages of the. British social system is that it attaches little exclusive merit to technical training...

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Taverns and Chop Houses

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By JOHN BOWEN There is nothing yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness has been produced as by a good tavern or inn.— JOHNSON. T HE devastation of the last war...

Zbe 6pertator

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DECEMBER 3, 1831 THE MONEY MARKET CONSOLS closed on Saturday at 831 for Money, and 8.3f, for the ,January Account; Exchequer Bills left off at 6s, to 7s. premium. The news from...

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The Self-Employed

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By A. R. PENTERVILLE T long last two parts of the Millard Tucker Report received the light of legislation in the 1956 Finance The most important point is that an approved...

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COMPANY NOTES

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BY CUSTOS TUESDAY saw a depressing end to a dismal Stock Exchange account. Oil shares failed to hold their weekend recovery and closed not far above the bottom of last week's...

THE JOLT BACK TO ECONOMIC REALITY

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BY NICHOLAS DAVENPORT WE all need jolts from time to time to bring us back to economic reality. The heavy cost of the Egyptian misadventure may yet cause the Government to see...

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A prize of six guineas is offered for all eight - line

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verse for a Christmas card Wit' the words 'A merry Christmas and a happy New Year' arranged diagonally, i.e. 'A' Is first word of first line, 'merry' second wor d of second...

Music to Forget

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The BBC recently broadcast the hundredth programme of Music to Remember. A prize of six guineas was offered for a list of six items for a programme of Music to Forget (vocal,...

SPECTATOR CROSSWORD No. 916

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ACROSS 1 First note in the record is useless (6). 4 Tone of voice otherwise distinguishes the sparrows (8). 10 Nine to five, eh? (7) 11 Poet's topsy-turvy expression (7). 12...

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FRUIT TREES

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Fruit trees are best planted before the harder frosts come. Bear in mind that for quick re- turns standards and espaliers are planted at three to four years old, half-standards...

DOGS AND SHEEP

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Labels are never satisfactory for classifying men. We are, by repute, dog-lovers and this is a tradition, whether we pamper our dogs in our bedrooms or leave them to fend for...

Country Life

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By IAN MALL IN a spell of colder weather the morning sun breaks through a haze and lasts only until early afternoon, when it fades to an orange glow and dissolves in mist. A...

THE. BARE WOOD

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With nothing to do but stand and stare one notices that when the leaves have gone from the trees in a copse or wood the larger birds generally forsake these places. The crow may...

Chess

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BY PHILIDOR No. 78 W. A. SIONKMAN (Dubuque Chess Journal, 1870) WIIITE (12 men) 11. -Q 5; 2 P-B 4. WHITE to play and mate in two moves: solution next week. Solution to last...