8 FEBRUARY 1957

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[SIR,-I wonder how long it took Mr. R. W. Wood...]

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St, - I wonder how hvlong it took N r. R. W. Wood to concoct his letter to tills Nvek's 5p' cI1oru 1-IOllS' 2I-IC mu111st IVC st '(Ilit'(l it 1hrd t ;hl a dZoll timleS lest by...

THE DESPISED

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'THE DESPISEI) .Siit. - able rel Lci nt[V Mr. P'ickH d's 1i'ti'll nt) yotUr coespolnlellcc columnis sulrpriscd me greatll. After his original Ictler a ppca red. I inv it ed...

[SIR,-Mr. Longhurst's letter abusing his own country-...]

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NilzI--- rI . I .olngl Lil stis lct(Cl cr ibsillg his o\n co tlillt[ ry4 1men1 tylpitiCs thle uhltlC,111hy aii off grovel iglg 111tim ii ityi and scilf-reproach expricssed by...

GOVERNMENT BY OLD ETONIANS

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CON'FERNMENTI IY OLD) ITONIA.NS SlR,---YOLII- correspoildoil. Mr. Wood. is slll-ek? AItlowiniig thle present agitation allout tecllnlogy to cairry hinm too far. As a...

ABSTRACT ART TODAY

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A BSITRACT' ARt l'TO)AY smi.1 - I ;111n perfecily wVilling lo clter ;II i argLInhcfll \wiith NMr. Ba.tsiI Taylorn d it (ldocs appcalr that 11c' I1aIS 0ned With 111C. InI t1 he...

MONOPOLIES AND RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES

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NI '(APOIE'S AND ISTICTIVE' PRKACTIC'S(I, ,- I)Despite the new Monopolies and RestrieltivC Trade Pi'ractices Act thc monopoly cnt irover-sy is dragging on and is a pparcntly...

THE SUPREME DETERRENT

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Letters to the Editor '[he Supreme Deterrent If il)l'hld Young MNionopolies and Restrictive Practices Leon Zeidilt Government by Old Etonians Daphne I-Here ward, Col. O. C....

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COMPANY NOTES

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COMPANY NOTES By CUSTOS T HIE week on the Stock Exchange has brought quicetr and easicr markets. A chlange of weather was seen in the gilt-edged market which seems to have got...

WANTED: ANOTHER 'MACMILLAN' COMMITTEE

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WANTED: ANOTHER 'MACMILLAN' COMMITTEE Bly NICHOLAS DAVENPORT M R. EISENHOWER in his message to Congress on 'the statc of the Union' surprised everyone by recommending that a...

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ELEVEN MINUS

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ELEVEN MINUS Siim,---Do the weekly verses contributed by the Minister of Education to your columns indicate that the works of Wihelhmina Stitch arc to bc made cornpulsory...

MOANING AT THE BAR

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MOANING ATl''11111 BAR SlR, -While 'wholeheartedly agreeing with Phliros's strictures onl thle egregious efrusions of the Baar C.oun1cil, I doubt whether the 'real danger to...

THE REAL ELGAR

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'T'IFI', REAL F:I-(AR Silt. Whlt lioive t li tlly t1lha11 thlt everv iltoral soCiCtV ill O1I CotI1tl-N lsolill \\Will to pel lomill onle of0 thie most strikimk, i 'oi'ks ol'...

PLACE NAMES

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PLACE NAMES SIR,-Essex has the richest store of personalities. Phere are, for instance, Berners and Margaret RodIng, a very repectable old couple who begat a large family, many...

THE VERSAILLES AFFAIR

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'1iIE: VERSAILLES AFlF1AIR , -Once more after five editions, that strange story An Adventrure is forced upon our notice by Mrs. Iremonger's attack in 7The' Ghosls of...

THE FIRST ROCK 'N' ROLL

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THE FIRST ROCK 'N' ROLL SIR,-YOU may like tile following short extract from Pluch, Vol. XIV, No. 33. of date about 1848: 'Ye broode of Gallic cocke Defying olle an(I rork,...

POLITE POLITICS

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POLITE POLITICS SIR,---Mr. Stevenson's reference to 'Bloody Balfour' supports my view. 'Bloody,' a robust adjective, was applied to Balfour for his stern handling of the Irish...

THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARRESTS

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THE SOUTHll AFRICAN ARRESTS Silt,-We, as sponsors. commlnlcilnd the fund established by Christi'an Action in connection wvith the recent arrests in South Africa. The pu....

L'AFFAIRE MINOU

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L'AFl'AIRE MINOUJ Smi,---M r. Quennell's theory (Spectator, January 25) that Minou Dlrouct is a gil'ted medium seemls a possible explanation of' this mystery. Blut is tile...

HOLD TIGHTLY

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HOLDI TIGHTLY Sm,---Pharos's para graph concerning the London bus conductors' cry ol Hold tightly, please,' brouight to mind the conductor in PortsImouLIth during the war whose...

ELIZABETHAN PARLIAMENTS

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ELiiABEITIIAN PAIRLIAMIN'ITS SI R,- InI %Ir. (Chl isto(Plhc H-lill's ; 1ui ableE nOtiC'e o' Sir John Neale's latest volumc thllI is onc Sltatement that neLds qualiticat ion. 1...

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[I MET the other day an American friend of mine...]

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I miJ'r the other day an American friend of mine who was complaining of the lack of knowledge even educated people in this country display in matters concerning American...

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Collector's Progress. By Stanley W. Fisher. The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art. By H. J. Plenderleith. Pictures in Peril. By H. H. Pars. Translated by Katherine Talbot.

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A Triptych Collector's Progress. By Stanley W. Fisher. (M ichael J oseph, 16s.) The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art. By H. J. IPlenderleith. (O.U.P., 63s.)...

Tree

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Tree HFISKhI.ll PIFARSON'S lBeerb}ohmtf Tree (Methuen, 25s.) begins, like MoblY Dick, with ;n anthology of other writers' comments on the subject. This brings into mind,...

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[I AM TOLD that the American Embassy in Amman,...]

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I AM 101D that the American Embassy in Amman, having received many petitions from all over Jordan protesting against the Eisenhower plan, sent copies of it to some of the...

[SINCE THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION has...]

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SINCE TlE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION has obviously decided to give King Saud the whole treatment, I wonder whether the protocol men of the Department of State have gone back to...

[READING WHAT their Lordships said about the...]

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RIADING WHAT their Lordships sail about the Shops Bill when they debated it last November, Leslie Adrian came across one of H-lansard's rare misprints: a specimen, I think,...

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[IT WAS POINTED out in these columns last week...]

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* * * lU WAS P'OINTED olut inl these colomns last week how embarrassing it would be for the Commons if they ever had to send a journalist to the Tower, since if he did not...

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TURNING WORMS

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TURNING WORMS In the course of conversation with a friend the other day I traded an account of the extraordinary courage of a doe rabbit for onc of the pluck of a bantam, both...

EARLY BIRDS

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EARiLY BIRDS The pair of crows that have been haunting a particular tree in the outskirts of the village since last autumn are about to makc something of the dilapidated twig...

CELERY TRENCHES

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CELERY fRI.Nu IzIlS It is necessary to prcpare celery trenches early in thc year. They should be mnade eighteen inchcs deep, the bottom forked, and left to break Lp tinder thc...

[JANUARY is over and odd things make one think one...]

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Country Life By ]AN NMALL JANUARY iS over and odd things make onc think one day that spring cannot be so far off and the next that it was all a sort of bright optimism. There...

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Out of the East and the Way Back

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Out of the East and the Way Back By GEORGE EDINGER WHEL.N Sir John Glhhbb was dismissed from his comiimiand in Jordan lie warncd our countrymen that Asia (and thc same holds...

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Yanks and Limeys

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B O O IK S Yanks and Limeys By KINGSLEY AMIS A Iio(K with this sort of' t itle* necds nowadavs A to be approached sidelong, picked tip) warl inI! betwe'eCn linlger- and...

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Bank Rate and Sterling

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Bank Rate and Sterling Tmn. renewed loss of gold and dollars from the central reserves during January has come as an unpleasant shock. It had been hoped for many reasons that...

The Rent Bill

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The Rent Bill Tml, events leading up to the new Rent Bill followed a now familiar pattern. Rent controls as originally imposed were designed to cope with an emergency,...

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Resolution

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Resolution The gilt ret(uLrins not to the giver, Nor tic spoken word to thec tonglIC, Nor upward Ilows the river Nor yet may the old be youtng. So CLirsed is hIC Who WOuld...

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Lord Byron's Marriage. By G. Wilson Knight.

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The Evidence of Asterisks Lord Byron's Marriage. By G. Wilson Knight. (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 30s.) Dit. MARANON's raelsrches into the private life of the original Don Juan...

R. L. S.: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter. Edited by Delancey Ferguson and Marshall Waingrow.

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R. L. S R. L. S.: Stevenson's Lettcrs to Charles Baxter. Edited by Delancey Felrguson and Marshall Wa~iingrow. (Gcoffrey Cumberlege, O.U.1'., 52s.) SIDNEY COLVIN remains in...

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The Happy Ones. By Maurice Edelman. Growing Up. By Barbara Lucas. The Abode of Love. By Aubrey Menen. The Spider's House. By Paul Bowles. The Guns of Navarone. By Alistair MacLean.

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New Novels 'IiThe lapJ)py Ones. By NIM.luricc EdelIllaln. (wili- g;, te, I 3s. )d *) I Growing Up. By BIarbara LucaCs. (Goll ancz, I I13s. 6d.) I The Abode of Love. By...

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ISRAEL: THE TESTING POINT

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ISRAEL: THE TESTING POINT T HE phlrse 'British policy in thc Middle East' has a melancholy ring to it now. It is a little like seeing a once powerful machine dlisconnected and...

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Margaret the First. By Douglas Grant.

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Mad Margaret Malirg.a:iret the First. By Doulglis Giranilt. (HIart- Davis, 25s.) I uIIs is a neatly written yet disqLuieting biography o1f onle of the odder women to streak...

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Glubb's Legion. By Godfrey Lias.

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The Desert Patrol I Glubb's Legion. By Godfrey Lias. (Evans, l 8s.) I GODFREY LIAS went out to Jordan in November. 1955, to gather material for a book about the Desert Patrol...