13 JUNE 1952

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The discussions between the Egyptian Government and' representatives of the

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Sudanese Umma Party, which have now come to an end, are reported to have been cordial and useful. This is as much as anyone could have hoped from them. It would not have been...

Meanwhile the deadlock at Panmunjom is matched by a continued

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lull in the land fighting. Reports, mostly emanating from Formosa, that a force of some 100,000 Chinese has moved, or is moving, from South China to Korea cannot be either...

KOREA ANXIETIES

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0 N Koje Island the first major operation to bring the Communist prisoners of war under control has been successful. ' Force was used and fanatically resisted. A number of...

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Mr. Menzies and Sterling

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When Mr. Menzies, the Prime Minister of Australia, said on Monday that wool prices would have to be "fantastic" before Australia could afford to buy more than £.500 million...

French Communists

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The latest outburst by the French Communist Party, which began with riots immediately after the signature of the German contract and the E.D.C. Treaty and is fi7iling out in...

American Steel and the Law

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The attempt to find some legal means of settling the steel strike in the United States goes on. Seizure of the industry by the President on his own authority has been declared...

Pressure on Jordan

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Jordan's three main neighbours—Iraq, Syria and Israel—all have a very clear idea of the sort of State they think Jordan ought to be; unfortunately their ideas do not coincide...

Unrest in East Europe?

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The fall of that formidable figure Anna Pauker was no doubt bound to produce reverberations outside Rumania, where she is the Foreign Minister. All the bits of news indicating...

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The New Broadcasting

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The argument on the future of British broadcasting has be- come repetitive and unenlightening. Wednesday's debate in the Commons produced no new ideas. New examples of the sins...

AT WESTMINSTER N the surface it was a carefree House

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of Commons which reassembled after the Whitsuntide holidays. One says on the surface, because it would be insulting Members to think they can be genuinely light-hearted as they...

TO ENSURE REGULAR RECEIPT OF

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THE SPECTATOR readers are urged to place a firm order with their newsagent or to take out a subscription. Newsagents cannot afford to take the risk of carrying stock, as unsold...

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A BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY

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W HEN in 'the House of Lords on Tuesday the Marquess of Reading read the statement which Mr. Eden was making almost simultaneously in the other House on the Contractual...

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A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK

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A SURPRISING paragraph in last Sunday's Observer describing Mr. Donald Tyerman, Deputy Editor of The Times, as a disappointed man because Sir William Haley had been appointed...

British Railways are in a real difficulty over their train-

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meals. I refuse to believe that persons travelling at their own expense (a practice to be avoided whenever possible) will long be content to pay 7s. 6d. for a lunch or 5s. for a...

If any Cambridge man, noting that of the only four

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amateurs in the first flight of the batting averages three are members of this year's Cambridge XI (the fourth being an old Light Blue), imagines that next month's university...

A knighthood, an honorary degree from his old university, and

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sudden death two days after the latter—a strange end for Desmond MacCarthy. But a quiet end, it would seem, and not altogether unexpected, for he had been in ill-health for a...

Every time I visit Wilton Park (now delightfully domiciled at

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the foot of the South Downs in the shadow of Chancton- bury Ring) I am increasingly impressed by the wisdom of the Foreign Office in maintaining an institution of this kind, to...

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The Senanayakes

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By the Rt. Hon. PHILIP NOEL-BAKER, M.P.* T HE victory of the United National Party in the General Election in Ceylon has confirmed Mr. Dudley Senana- yake as Prime Minister of...

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Miss Burney Runs Away

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By DEREK HUDSON S -HE comes flying to us out of the pages of history—a demure little Second Keeper of the Queen's Robes, run- ning at remarkable speed through the gardens at...

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Good Men and True

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By MERVYNHORDER T HREE days' petty jury service at the .01d Bailey reinforces 'powerfully one's respect for British judicial processes; and since I find that few people, even...

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Junior Scholarship

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By RICHARD URQUHART N EARLY thirty years ago I sat this same exam in this same hall. Scribble, scribble, scribble: . . A rough green baize cloth protecting long tables against...

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UNDERGRADUATE PAGE

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Dublin this Summer By BRIAN GARDNER (Trinity, College Dublin.) S URELY the streets of Dublin are among the most beauti- ful in the world. The long flat 'facades and the plain...

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MARGINAL COMMENT

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By HAROLD NICOLSON 0 N Saturday afternoon I was present at the reopening of the house where Keats spent the last months of his life in England. The guests were received by the...

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CONTEMPORARY ARTS

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CINEMA MR. JOHN DIGHTON'S comedy Who Goes There !has been turned into a very amusing film, or, to be absolutely accurate, it has remained a very amusing play and someone has...

ART

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WORDS can be confidence-tricksters, and we must walk warily round labels. Delacroix is a " romantic " ; and if me thinks of him relatively, setting him against the...

MUSIC

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THE visit of an Italian conductor and of three soloists from La Scala is all that constitutes the Italian " season "at Covent Garden this summer. Signor Capuana is conducting...

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The invading forces in Burmah are to pass the rainy season at Rangoon; possibly for the purpose of trying experimentally how well their constitutions can resist the miasma of...

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EXHIBITION

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The Antique Dealer's Fair. (Grosvenor House, until June 26th.) A FAIR is not a museum display, and it is unjust to the exhibitors to blame them for not conforming to Victoria...

BALLET

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The Black Swan. (Festival Gardens, Battersea.) Tim first stereoscopic ballet-film ever to-be made is now showing at the Riverside Theatre in the Battersea Festival Gardens. The...

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SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 119 Report by J. M. Cohen

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A prize of £5 was offered for a translation of Eduard Morike's " Heimweh." In choosing a German poem, even a simple pee, I knew that I was in danger of reducing the number of...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 122

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Set by Guy Kendall In Erewhon Revisited Mr. Turvey begins to examine boys in the "Musical Banks" catechism : "My duty towards my neighbour," said the boy," is to be quite sure...

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The Young - Saki Sta,—In Mr. Hudson's comments in the Spectator

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on the book The Best of Saki, selected and with an introduction by Graham Greene, he mentions the extraordinary delusion that some writers on Saki have had, that he had "a...

Sra,—Although but four years up the aristocratic ladder I should

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nevertheless like to add a little to one of the points made in Outlook from Meikles, which I think paints a very fair picture. How very real is the situation exemplified by your...

Competition For Scientists

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Sut„—Surely the headmaster of the Cathedral School, Bristol, is un- reasonable in his approach not only to your editorial comment on -the use of good scientists but also on the...

Outlook from Meikles

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Sut,—I should like to make a few comments on the article Outlook from Meikles in your issue of May 2nd. Colonel de la Fargue states cate- gorically, and on the authority of an...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Health Means Test? Sta,—Sir Ronald Davison's article is most opeorhme. I fear however that he only touches the fringe of the problem—I nearly wrote scandal. Throughout the...

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Nurses in the Horne

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SIR,—II is undoubtedly true that old and ill people do not now receive in the Welfare State the care which they had by right in the past, and in so many cases now suffer, in...

-Motor-Cycle Casualties

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Sta,—One simple measure would appreciably reduce the appalling rate of casualties to motor-cyclists, mentioned by Mr. John W. Crawford. The wearing of crash-helmets should be...

Legalised Lotteries

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slit,—I doubt if the average investor in football-pools is as ignorant of their true character as Mr Hubert Phillips suggests. Speaking for myself, I have invested sums...

Clerical Telephones

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'SIR,—I have just received the Postmaster-General's notice of increased telephone rentals. So, I presume, has the Rector of this parish. Is it not quite time that parish clergy...

Patients' Plight

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Sta,—Your correspondents have demolished the unsubstantiated com- plaint that many doctors resent having patients on their panel who could afford to pay. Yet general...

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May-Blossom

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May is out, and it is safe to remove jackets, shirts and other gar- ments. I have never been sure about the old rhyme's meaning, but the month of May has gone and the blossom of...

The Village Shop

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One looks at the things in the window of a village shop not because one expects to find bargains but because it is only there that such odd articles are offered for sale. The...

COUNTRY LIFE

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FROM time to time it is rumoured that cock-fighting still takes place M country districts of the Midlands and North. * Like other barbaric sports, it has been driven underground...

Herb -Cures

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Herb remedies are endless. Every old country-woman once had her own pet cures. Nettle .beer was for the blood, hops for the pillow of those who could not sleep, elderflowers for...

Weeds and Seeds

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There is nothing that will do for weeds but hard work. So many lovely things are coming into flower and ripening that it is easy to stand and stare. Meanwhile, the weeds seed as...

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BOOKS OF THE WEEK

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Songs of the Manx Poems of T. E. Brown. Memoir by Sir A. Quiller-Couch. 2 vols. Letters of T. E. Brown. Memoir by S)dney T. Irwin. (Liverpool University Press. 1 10s. the...

The British Press

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The March of Journalism. By Harold Herd. (Allen & Unwin. 21s.) THE sub-title of .this book is "The Story of the British.Press from 1622 to the Present Day." The limitation is...

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Unorthodox Commander

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My Naval Life, 1906 - 1929. By Stephen King-Hall. (Faber. 18s.) READERS will ask themselves whether Commander King-Hall was right to enter the Navy at all. They will doubt it at...

History in Pictures

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Those Impossible English. By Quintin Bell and Helmut and Alison Gernsheim. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 25s.) To the impossible all things are possible. This book presents an...

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The Place of the Scots

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Summer in Scotland. By Ivor Brown. (Collins. 16s.) THE Scotland of this book is not simply a piece of scenery, a ribbon of grandeur unwound for the tourist's gaze ; it is the...

The Strong Boy

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John L. Sullivan : 'Champion of Champions. By Nat Fleischer. (Robert Hale. 18s.) "WHEN once that I was and a little tiny boy," I was taken to a Glasgow music-hall. On the stage...

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The Parasites of Birds

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Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos. By Miriam Rothschild and Theresa Clay. (Collins. 21s.) PARASITES have often been labelled degenerates. Not only is their way of life naturally...

Exiled Virtuoso

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Rachmaninoff. By Victor I. Seroff. (Cassell. 21s.) Tins is an easily-written, readable biography, which gives in con- siderable detail the background of Rachmaninoff's early...

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Soviet Foreign Policy

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Ttia second volume of Mrs. Degras' invaluable compilation should earn the same golden opinions as the first. The student of Soviet policy has never before had so useful an aid...

Fiction

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Chosen Country. By John Dos Passos. (Lehmann. 15s.) The Inspector of Ruins. By Elsa Triolet. Translated by Norman Cameron. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1 Is. 6d.) The Witch's...

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Shorter Notices

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THIS critical study of Ezra Pound from an American is a useful introduction to the strongest and most sustained poem of the modern period. Instead of diverting to the usual...

A Psychologist at Work. By E. Graham Howe. (Faber. 8s.

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6d.)' As Mr. Tom Hopkinson claims in his fore- word, Dr. Howe's book has the merit of clarity, and the further merit that it tries to disabuse its readers of the too prevalent...

'New Directions 13. Edited by James Laughlin. (Peter Owen. 30s.)

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New Directions is now well established as an anthology of avant-garde writing, but this does not necessarily mean that all the writers are very new or even still alive. The aim...

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THE "SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 682

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A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution opened after noon on Tuesday week, June 24th, addressed Crossword, and bearing NUMBER of...

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FINANCE AND INVESTMENT

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By CUSTOS IN face of continuing uncertainties markets are trying hard to find a new line of resist- ance. Although gilt-edged stocks are unlikely to achieve any real stability...