4 JUNE 1954

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BEWARE GENEVA

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This makes it clear just how limited is the progress so far achieved. In the first place, where the lines of partition are to be drawn has yet to be decided. This is the heart...

THE SPECTATOR No. 6571 FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1954 PRICE 7d.

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East and West Pakistan

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Last Sunday, a coup de grace from Karachi knocked Mr. A. K. Fazlul Huq from his seat as Chief Minister of East Bengal, put him under house arrest, put many more behind bars, and...

Two Steps Forward

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The limp body of United Europe was given some fairly substantial nourishment during last week-end. Dr. Adenauer's Christian Democratic party—whose sympathies were scarcely in...

Mutiny Against the Bounty

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The House of Commons decided by a free vote last week that Members of Parliament should have an extra £500 a year and that this should be in the form of a straight salary...

Emergency in Buganda

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The delegates from the Great Lukiko of Buganda spoke truly when they warned Mr. Lyttelton in December that his refusal to allow the return of Kabaka Mutesa II would bring about...

The Oppenheimer Case

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decision'of the board that Dr. Oppenheimer is a loyal citizen, but may not in future handle atomic secrets In matters of atomic weapons is loyalty, combined with the very...

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Railway Gymnastics

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The country came within an inch or two of a national railway 'strike last week. In order to avert this, a trade union was 'obliged to stand on its head. The Associated Society...

Collision at Coventry

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The Coventry affair has now tumbled headlong into the deep end of farce. There was a time when the councillors of that city could be given the benefit of the doubt; when their...

AT WESTMINSTER ARLIAMENT adjourns on Friday for the Whitsuntide

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p recess—and not before time. This is a trying period of the year for politicians who have been together too long. Theoretically, the blaze of June should add to the languors...

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TORY INTELLECTUALS

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LEVEN months ago, there appeared in the Spectator a leading article called " Ideas and Tories." It made three main points. The first was that, for the Conserva- tive Party,...

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Ibsen Also Ran

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It is as a student of English folkways rather than as a patron of the drama that I salute the much-publicised production of The Frog al the Scala Theatre, in aid of charity....

Royal Borough

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" Et puffs vOus prendrez," I said firmly into the telephone. " le train que part a onze heures vingt pour Reading." "Pardon?" After long sojourns, first in Tibet and then in...

Another Archer-Shee Case ?

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I imagine that most people cannot help feeling. any more than I can, that Admiral Sir Dudley North has been shabbily treated by the Admiralty. He was relieved of his , post as...

' Paul Crum'' Very few people can have heard of

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Roger Pettiward, an e xhibition of whose pictures is being held at Eton on the rourth of June. His drawings in Punch (in whose current dumber ' Fougasse ' analyses with much...

A SPECTATOR 'S NOTEBOOK

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I N 1951 57 per cent. of the population of Western Germany thought they were worse off than they had been a year ago and 12 per cent. thought they were better off; the corres-...

The Inanity Stakes

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The following are extracts from the blurbs of two books announced for publication by the same firm. Students are invited to deduce from the words in italics the principal...

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Military Aspects of Indo-China

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By JULES MENKEN . T HE more the problem of Indo-China is examined, the more complex are its realities seen to be, the more difficult, appear the choices before Western policy,...

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New Ways of Flying RY OLIVER STEWART ERONAUTICAL engineers are

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working on radically new ways of flying. In conception and in basic con- figuration some of the research aircraft which will soon be tested will be novelties; their shapes and...

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Northern Ireland

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By THOMAS SKELTON I T is difficult to know exactly that to call this part of Ireland, which by vote continuously elects to be an integral part of the British Commonwealth of...

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OPERA

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`The Ring' at Covent Garden THE first of the two cycles of The Ring began on May 27th, when the Royal Philharmonic Society's Stravinsky concert presented a difficult choice for...

CONTEMPORARY ARTS

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T o. EL th E i V t r Ifi O rs N t we A ek NEl f na RADIO in ese columns on radio and television, I hoose for comment and criticism only one rogramme—and that a very recent one...

ART

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THAT Leonard Rosoman's name is not better known to the wider public must be attributed in part to his reluctance to exhibit, in part to a disregard for fashion. A polarising...

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CINEMA

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taste of all of these plus the tragic love of a rather unattractive warrior for a married lady, and the result is wholly absorbing, a feast of richness in colour and design, a...

Fete Galante

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Pastourelle

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In morning time I went to school And wandered thence a singing fooL Trairi deluriau delurele delurot. At high noon time I chose a road, Leased a field and fenced a wood....

With love I strike This honey from the rock, Split

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the fine-textured Granite like a peach And see the liberated spring divide The severed crystal and its matching side. Prospectors on this dry plateau Have sunk their drills to...

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Letters to the Editor

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PSYCHIATRY AND SPIRITUAL HEALING $1R, —Your contributor on Psychiatry and Spiritual Healing has pointed out that Wesley $Peculated on the use of common physical and p...

PL.Y.RS

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have just asked at a tobacconist's shop for a packet of twenty cigarettes. Hun- dreds of millions of the particular brand of cigarette for which I asked are being smoked every...

A REAL TRUMPET

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SIR,—Your correspondent G. H. Wilbraham is right in saying that the musical public is being cheated " by the use of the deformed cornet " by which 1 understand he means the B...

Sra,—To be successful Psychiatry must BE Spiritual Healing. Perhaps this

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statement is a commonplace. It is clear that the writer of t he very interesting article which you have lust published sees the 'essential connection, but unless a means is...

SIR,—To me it seems a pity that your anony- mous

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contributor should have labelled his 'two articles as he did. He evidently knew all there was to know about psychiatry and merely touched on the subject of spiritual beating....

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INDO-CHINA

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SIR,—Others besides myself must be bewil- dered by the contradictory accounts of the position in Indo-China which have been given us in the past few weeks. It is not long...

WINIFRED HOLTBY

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SIR,—In the preparation of a comprehensive bibliography relating to the life and writings of Winifred Holtby, I am anxious to trace the publication of this novelist's numerous...

SIR,—Two quotations from the Spectator of May 2gth: (I) "

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There are so few members who can pull their colleagues out of the library and the smoke-room and the cafe- teria." (2) " Being an M.P. is a full-time job with a great deal of...

SPYROS A. KYPRIANOU

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SIR,—Your contributor, L Crispin Warming- ton, (issue of 21st May)

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appears to have misunderstood the new Finance Bill which is before Parliament. In his second example he says his friend Elsie will not be able to claim under the new provisions...

where it has complete and undisputed authority, in the District

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of Columbia, i.e. Washington.—Yours faithfully, Peterhouse, Cambridge_ D. W. BROGAN

" GROUP CAPTAIN CHESHIRE

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am writing the official bidgraphy of Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, VC. DSO, DFC, with his full co-operation and consent. The book is to be published by Collins, Ltd.,...

MR. WILES SKATES ON A HORNET'S NEST

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R, BETIERIDGE

INDEFINITE ARTICLE I understand, however, that this very erudite .decision

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is causing some concern to education officials, teachers and parents in many parts of the country, judging by an incident in this area, which may be of interest. glass jar...

SIR,-1 cannot help wondering how much your correspondent A. H.

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Wilbraham knows about trumpets—and conductors. Does he really imagine that the trumpeters of any orchestra of repute are deceiving their conductors, and the public, by...

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Country Life

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THE scythe had been left on the patch of long grass at the end of the garden at the cottage. I was told about it as soon as it was remembered, and made a special journey to put...

The Fly'

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IAN NULL

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 225 Set by Tom Bowling

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The Belgians have recently set up a Ministr, for the Middle Claims, one of whose chief tasks, no doubt, Will be to protect its charge$ from other organs of government. A prize d...

Weed-killer

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There is a time in May and lune when the days arc long and everything grows twice as fast as in the month before. Perhaps the days are lengthened to give a gardener time to cope...

Barrow Bards

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To restore a touch of the lyrical now lost to our cities, competitors were invited to compose a street cry for a vendor of one of the following articles: a detergent, a home...

A Devoted , Gander Mrs. Bernard Townsend, of Brentwood, Essex, sends

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this story of a devoted gander. " He and his goose lived in our half-acre paddock," she writes, " retiring each night to their wooden house beside the chickens' yard. One...

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Compton Mackenzie S INCE the House of Commons voted on a resolution in favour of raising the payment of members from £1,000 to £1,500 a year the correspondence of every...

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ItIOTORING

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Swept off the Track BY GORDON WILKINS HE first major motor race in Britain under this year's new formula produced the usual headlines: " Foreigners Sweep the Board," " British...

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UNDERGRADUATE

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Last Day B y JOHN G. GEORGE (Hertford College, Oxford) R AIN has the same effect on Eights Week at Oxford aa a douche of cold water on a paint-box; the resultant colours tend...

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TO ectator

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JUNE 3, 1854. THE report that the Russian squadron has succeeded in " opening up" the Japanese empire to commerce proves unfounded; and the credit belongs to the Americans, who...

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New Verse

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By ANTHONY HARTLEY D URING the war years, when armageddons were two a penny, English poetry suffered a great deal from wild and whirling verse of a type associated with the...

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Milton's Left Hand

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THIS noble book, the first of an entirely new seven-volume edition of Milton's prose works, is modestly described in its preface as having an academic purpose. It is intended...

Personalities in Malaya

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Malaya: Communist or Free? By Victor Purcell. (Gollancz. 15s.) I WRITE about this book with some hesitation since I have recently been contradicting its author in the columns...

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Scarlatti

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Domenico Scarlatti. By Ralph Kirkpatrick. (O.U.P. 63s.) ' HE would be a bold man who would claim to argue against the main conclusions of Mr. Kirkpatrick's book, and a bolder...

The West and the Rest

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The Western Dilemma. By Alan Gordon Smith. (Longmans. 1 ls. 6d.) The Lie about the West: A Response to Professor Toynbee's Challenge. By Douglas Jerrold. (Dent. 6s.) MANY...

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New Novels

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A Rogue With Ease. By M. K. Argus. (Rupert Hart-Davis. 10s. 6d.) MR. LIPSKY'S bopk has the clean outlines of the better Saturday Evening Post serial. It cannot avoid being made...

Exile

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Self Condemned. By Wyndham Lewis. (Methuen. 15s.) Tins vast novel, at its best magnificent, at its worst stupefying, bears everywhere the stamp of a major talent. Its faults and...

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DURING his last years James Stephens became one of the

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best known broadcasters in BBC programmes, and his recitals of his own verse gave delight. The quaint little cough with which he always began, the lilting, note, the humorous'...

the common touch in Jerusalem." There may easily be disagreement

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on who are to be considered "the principal contemporary composers of Soviet Russia," but is Gavriel Popov among them? And could Bach really be called a 'religious thinker,' in...

Bartholomew's Reference Atlas of Greater London. (Bartholomew & Son. 42s.)

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THIS new edition is the completest atlas yet to Greater London. In its 150-odd double- page coloured plates, mostly on a scale of four inches to the mile, 1,100 square miles are...

OTHER RECENT BOOKS

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History of the Second World War. Studies in the Social Services. By S. M. Ferguson and H. Fitzgerald. (H.M.S.O. 22s. 6d.) Tins book is a pendant to Professor Titmuss's Problems...

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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT r ket putting up the prices of the medium- ted stocks.- As the Treasury gave no monetary incentive to holders to convert, and as the new stock seemed...

Company Notes

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By CUSTOS WHILE the better political news caused a good recovery in the stock markets this week—and it was a recovery which had the moral backing of a confident Government...