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Although since the war the Soviet Union has used its own military forces to further its policies its side of the Iron Curtain, and has subsidised the military forces of many...

I can see that a pro g ramme desi g ned to shock youn g people into realisin g the unpleasant and dan g erous nature of VD could perform a useful service, particularly if...

Dr Francis Kellerman, to whom for his vi g orous and successful advice to stop smok- in g I personally am enormously indebted, wrote in these pa g es last January pointin g out...

Henry Ford n's views are in part very salutary and welcome, but he talks rubbish when he asserts: 'There is nothin g wron g with Fords of Britain—but with the coun- try'. This...

Senior shadow Cabinet ministers, some of whom are now merely emotionally attached to the Market because of political and personal friendships and have lost their earlier...

In a g lib way, I used to remark that Calcutta was the only town in which I would be inclined to join the Communist party. The drive in from Dum-dum, where the bullets came...

r Heath seemed to be adopting the politi- cal style of Mr Harold Wilson. It was a lamentable duty to suggest that the PM was revealing hints of the dreaded Wilson Pose which...

The Nelson touch SALLY VINCENT St Patrick's Day paraders flounced by with the air of people having a better time than we are. Their music, accompanied by the flashing of a...

The easy part of the Chancellor's job, and therefore the bit that all the commentators go on about, is tax reform. What matters, and is therefore not discussed by any...

Warden's Warre GOOD BROTHER LONDINIENSIS, I am glad that the great postal! siege is now at last lifted, for although the pigeon- service was a pretty thing, and excellently...

Cassius at Philippi? DENIS BROGAN Nevertheless, 'the champion of the world' is still the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. We may tend to ignore this since Britain,...

Wednesday 10 March: In Ulster three British soldiers, one under eighteen, were shot dead in a North Belfast suburb by IRA terrorists. The Australian PM; Mr John Gorton, voted...

Mrs Gandhi's new politics W. H. MORRIS-JONES Calcutta, 23 February The plane reached Calcutta from Patna an hour late that morning; three hours after Mr Hemanta Bose had been...

The open secret DOUGLAS FABER In recent general election campaigns, Trans- port House has frequently accused the BBC of having a pro-Conservative bias. At the same time, from...

Storm Jameson writes on Ivy Compton-Burnett Other reviews by Geoffrey Hudson, Denis Brogan Peter Fleming and Malcolm Cormack Auberon Waugh reviews a novel by John Rowan Wilson...

On the few occasions in the past when I have described a book as being a good read, I intended this to mean that I enjoyed read- ing it. This, it seems to me, is as much as one...

Andrew Carnegie Joseph Frazier Wall (ouP £6.50) As one of the two richest American million- aires, Andrew Carnegie was bound to become a striking example of capitalist...

Education and Communism in China: An Anthology of Commentary and Documents edited by Stewart E. Fraser (Pall Mall Press £2.75) The Chinese Road to Socialism: Economics of ,the...

The Last and the First Ivy Compton-Burnett (Gollancz £1.40) The singular position of Ivy Compton- Burnett, as novelist, in the literature of the past five decades, is not in...

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The editor has taken trouble to emphasise that the new Companion to Art has been de- signed as a non-specialist introduction to the fine arts in the narrow sense of painting and...

A Baconian manque, Mr Richards sets out to prove that the Russian Imperial family, so far from being massacred in a basement in Ekaterinberg on the night of 16-17 July 1918,...

1970 are now available and may be obtained, price 50p post free, from the Sales Manager, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, Lon- don wcl. Copies of most of the previ- ous indexes...

Charles Seaton reports: Back in the days before the postmen's strike, when the Boat Show was packing them in at Earl's Court, competitors were asked to compose a sea shanty for...

A prize of £3 will be awarded for the first correct solution opened on 29 March. Address solutions: Crossword 1473, The Spectator, 99 Gower Street, London WC1 Across 1 Such a...

No 642: Love letter Set by Maud Gracechurch: Competitors are asked to supply a love letter to or from Lucrezia Borgia, the Marquis de Sade, Richard nr, Genghis Khan, Mussolini,...

9 Nonet 10 Morse code 11 Furrow 12 Cemetery 14 Rules 15 How goes it 18 Eldest son 20 Tudor 22 Canister 24 Busont 26 Mezzanine 27 Bilbo 28 Long leg 29 Fara. day. Down: 1 Land...

• ARTS LETTERS • MONEY. LEISURE TELEVISION Face to face with LWT PETER FIDDICK For myself, I do truly believe I am a most natural conservative and a very pessimist among...

Happiness is a warm bed pan CHRISTOPHER HUDSON For the two lovers, brevity is the soul of witlessness. Dialogue is on the lines of 'holy shit! ', 'bullshit!' and 'don't...

Sober seraglio RODNEY ivillAsTEs After his thoughtful production of Cosi fan tutte for the Royal Opera, it was only to be expected that John Cop- ley might take a fairly...

In Belfast and London TONY PALMER On Saturday week in the Ulster Hall, Belfast, the first party confer- ence of The Alliance Party of Northern Ire- land is to be held....

Play for yesterday KENNETH HURREN What makes a successful con man is his shrewdness in spotting the character flaw that exposes his victim to being gulled, and when the flaw...

discourtesy and inaccuracy which we have grown accustomed to ex- pect from EuroBrits. accuses me of 'wog-bashing' because I described the Common Market as 'the Eura- sian...

Sir: I would fully endorse your praise last week of the achievement of Andreas Whittam-Smith since he became the Editor of the Investors Chronicle. However, the Investors...

Sir, for publishing the excel- lent anti-Common Market adver- tisement on the back of the sPeC- TATOR (27 February). The Prime Minister and his `European' cohorts are engaged...

we are entitled to admit whom we choose, and that we may well prefer people of our own type (6 March). However, it is rather hard to understand why the Government are spending...

profit (6 March) may I challenge the statement: 'It is not difficult to argue—to demon- strate even—that the alternative to the market and the capitalist pro- cess is...

Sir: Criticising Sir Harry Legge- Bourke's fine article, The re- assertion of sovereignty', Mr Gordon Evans shows misunder- standing of inter-war history in such phrases as 'a...

Letters from Lord Sudeley, John Biggs-Davison, MP, Paul Elazig, Sir William Hart, Anthony Harris and others. The morality of profit Sir : In his extremely interesting article...

'The Morality of Profit' (6 March). Ex- ponents of capitalism usually defend the market on utilitarian grounds but seldom upon ethical bases. Readers might like to know of the...

membership of the Com- mon Market, states that 'Britain alone has little influence'. On the contrary, there are very few cqun- tries in the world whose influence is more...

Roger Scruton suggests that the 'lyric quality' of Finnegans Wake is still ignored, and quotes Joyce's statement that 'Time and the river and the moun- tain' were the real...

Sir: Apart from 'near to libelling Kingsley Amis' I don't mind actu- ally libelling him any time he chooses to make an issue out of itt But SPECTATOR readers should be...

Sir: I have read many words on the recent MCC tour in Australia, mostly by cricket journalists, but none of them have hit the nail so firmly and boldly on the head as Mr Simon...

Sir: Your issue for 6 March carries on the back page an advertisement headed 'Conservative Pacificism'. I gather that it was published anonymously; so that it is not practicable...

Sir: Roger Scruton on James Joyce (6 March) unearths so many intrigues of that errant Dubliner. Could it be that Gross in his sim- plistic way more accurately reflects the man?...

Sir: May I draw attention to a recent public request for written evidence by the Broadcasting Com- mission appointed by the General Synod of the Church of England. The...

Sir: Trevor-Roper's new argu- ments can be reduced to three heads: (a) the miracle stories of the Gospels are obviously historic- ally untrue; (b) the Gospels cannot be dated...

Sir: Sir Denis Brogan (27 Febru- ary) rejects the contention I put forward in the Times that it is Britain's moral duty to repay a fraction of the financial assistance received...

NICHOLAS DAVENPORT One of the most depressing features of the trade union establishment in this country is its appalling ignorance of the elementary principles of business...

A tiresome puzzle turns round events at Cheltenham. By this weekend I could be congratulating myself upon a stylish re- covery, courtesy of Into View, or be nursing further...

The money being burnt ravaging Cadogan Gardens and Portman Square unnaturally for underground carparks makes me glad to hear that experiments are being made with meters in...

Some strange rumours are afloat in theatrical circles concerning Peter Pan, the play be- queathed by its author, the late Sir lames Barrie, to the Great Ormond Street Hospital...

Of course workpeople or anyone else should be allowed to make political protest by withholding their work. When the Socialists Were in power and going in for a lot of...

People, journalists should often be reminded, not merely read what is written, Sometimes they follow the advice in print. Therefore the one sort of standard one can keep, albeit...

They have yet to announce the disposition of the contract. Mr Peter Cotes, ante-post fav- ourite among the non-big-business candidates (if only because our foremost authority on...

The murmurs that the Government intends to move departments, perhaps even minis- tries, to the provinces is indeed welcome. There will be a mulish reaction from senior civil...

The Boat Race is one of those peculiar events in the London calendar generally assumed to be there by some kind of divine right, but which on closer examination turns out to...

In my remarks concerning Sir Kenneth Keith in the issue of The SPECTATOR (20 February) I referred to an investment which I stated that he had made in Mineral Securities. I have...

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