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SILVERMAN
Mt Bevin is said to be anxious to return To the Foreign Office belone things go too far.
THE MANTLE OF ERNIE
World Chngright by arrangement with Daily Weald,
CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY
of modern ALKING
culture, often people mean two things, dif- flcult to reconcile, if not quito irreconcilable. On the one hand, the cultivation in
philosophy, religion,
the tho
arts and sciences, of highest spiritual life of this age. On
those the other, activities which are
repre-
By Stephen Spender
He is also the author of a number of books on
social and cultural problems.
One of Britain's leading modern poets.
att Hollywood.
The Individualistle
the police and the bureaucracy; and the freedom of etillure the many which
'THE
MAESTRO' MAKES
The First-ever
Test On Twins
гONSIEUR and This bluff, bespectacled New removed a small Madame J-nod- Zealander
Victor's
M
ded happily as they square of skin from caught sight of their six right arm and replaced it with year-old twins Victor and a similar skin graft taken from Then he covered the Pierre marching hand-in- Erle.
slight wound left in Eric's arm hand in the procession of with the square of skin taken
from Victor.
Swiss children.
But their
Happiness gave THE
way
aatonlabimentCHAPMA
when They
noticed a boyPINCHER cailed Eric
Simliar cross- ginfta were then
made between
Victor and Pierre and between Plerro and Eric.
The resulta sotis
ELZEBARned the authori-
walking a few
behind. COLUMN
Daces
Ha likeness 10 Catrack all curas
50
Victor who extraordinary that they must meet him.
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they
feit
When Eric smiled the resem. blance became even more markable. He had a wide ap
between his lower front teeth So had Victor.
ies that a fer-
ribic mistake had been made.
The skin transplanted fem Victor to Erle and vice versa without crafted on rapidly scarring. It retained its texture and hair growth. The other attempted rafts would not knit together at all. The transplanted
in shrivelled and died.
really was a most interest-
The Swiss authorities there- ing coincidence, thought Mon fore ordered Erle nud Pierre to
until he learned that be exchanged immediately.
sicur
Eric had been born on the same nike and in the same maternity It was a terrible wrench for home as his own children.
the three parels. And it was After that neither he nor his especially hard on Pierre, who wife could rid their minds of suddenly fround himself father- the terrifying possibility that less. Pierre was somebody else's child, who had been accidental- ly substituted for Eric by the
nurses..
*
** When they showed Victor 10 Eric's widowed mother she be came desperately anxious, too. So they reported the case
authorities, who ordered an the
10
But the boys have adapted themselves surprisingly well to this strange family switch- round, Sir Archibald reports in his just-published cord of the case.
medical re-
GHOST PRIZE
CASH prizes for people
who
imanediate investigation.
Scientists recorded the finger
scientific
carry out sound
investigations
print patterns, cre colours, hair ghosts, poltergeists, chureters, and teeth
Arrange and
other
"super
on
ments of the three boys. The phenomena are being offered by
esults alt supported the belief the
Socicly for Psychical
that Victor and Erle were the Research. rend twins.
Anyone is eligible. But the Thien they made blood tests of thought,
oficiale at the highest level.
society
suggest that Over-simplifications of complex the boys and the parents But prospective ghost hunters should Froblems are simply misstate- because the man whom Eric had seek their advice before starting
dead, these work. inents, like the talk of those who called father was have got hold of a few of the tests could not settle the case psychiatrists. conclusively. truder ideas of with which they attempt to ex- When
secmed the problem insoluble one of the scientists plain themselves and others.
ALL `cor-wogglers, that, although Another mistake is to imagine remembered
eye-rollers, double-jointed that very much can be done by human skin differs so much that thumbsters, and chers who get rather it cannot normally be grafted perennial parly fun out of their organising culture In
great from one person mechanical way, by n
to another, muscular abnormalities, I bring There is a many meetings, congresses, and grafts are usually possible be interesting news:
tween identical twins. no forth.
**
1
Responsibility attacks the
*
So the authorities
men
BLINDS UP
*
FOR
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Souter has
made a coloured film or it.
(London Express Service)
young Scotsman who, by con- torting his face muscles, can turn sentative of its general newspapers, the pulp magazines for
called in his eyelids inside out and roll spiritual condition. On the
Sir Archibald McIndoe, the 50- them up like blinds. The performance one hand, the quantum needs to draw strength from the freedom of the few, ultimately
of life of this new iterate public. leads to the same ming. Like IN the democracies, the prob-year-old British plastic curaton astounding that Aberdeen eye theary, the painting
lem of the relationship to known to hundreds This public needs the values wise, culture only for the many
badly expert Dr Willam Picasso, the Freudian and of the higher culture. The or culture only for the few, each cuture is really in the hands of burned R.A.F.
as "Thu few people the writers, Maestro" for his brilliant work Jungian psychology, the irreconcilables have to meet, and leads to direction by State pro a
thinkers nud scientists, The is giving them new faces. poetry of Paul Valery; on the only security for democracy, poganda.
thing is Is when those things which give
important In our modern society free most the other, the cinema, the democratic civilisation Its dom and culture have to belong that these leaders of thought task is a newspapers, the habit of highest values become to some
10 the many as well as to the should see that their
double responbility: eating ice cream, State lot- rxtent identified with the wel few, or they are lost to both
Just teries, emply churches and fare of the common man.
This state of affairs is the result res of the enormously
heie,
and their self-conciousness of all
but also to the people.
Lately combined with the great Increase
the United States drug Based on freedom
store.
gree.
cable not
in scepticism about unreasoning considerable
they are
to their creation,
scen
have awakening
of
POTH kinds of culture depend It might be argued that B politically on freedom. Mass authoritarian religions. Neither scientists to this awareness. The
who of the mea
Bre inventing and such n division represents culture, depends on millions of class can accept the iden of
bombs simply a difference of de- people having had a basic educu- natural authority of the other. manufacturing atomic
either dominate can no longer simply think of it But would be on which makes them iterate. So one must
specialists, truer to say that it describes Individualistic culture depends the other or both must combine. themselves as pure
on the individual having the Society has to choose between for the rosult of their Inventions of reconciling almost irreconcilable may be the destruction-or the
war on 4 inmense advancement view which are often
civilisation. world wide scale. to the culture of the masses.
So the word "freedom," like the
sharply opposed
"Hey, Warner Bros.
What Have You Done to Me?“
two mutually antagonistic freedom to expressed positions, and class
THE STRANGE-APPALET
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MILTON BERLE VIRGINIA MAYO
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cultures.
Decline in values word "culture," has today two
Olle
of
versus
meanings: the
the
it is
True strength
be
of
Only 10 Minutes To
Win An Air Fight
By Wing Commander PAUL RICHEY, DFC.
#
men are watching
*
1
*
Some Flying Fortresses · have
but combats between fighters have resulted In a number of vielories for the Americans.
do
The Russian Communists often the air war in Korea the Yakovlev YAK fighter,and Easy temptation talk of culture as a "weapen. with the keenest possible in surprise of the war-the Ameri
CAI Bell F-30 AIRACOBRA. Bui
only a weapon in their terest. One of them, in fighter, 4,000 of which were NO that when, in moments of
who use sense of the term, shaped to be
is General supplied to Rurala during the of their discouragement, we say that freedom of the individualistic in VIE individualista
propaganda Washington, our culture shows signs of wide-vidual, and the freedom of their fre:dom in order to In part
belonging to vent and crente, must also be con- machine. Is the course of the Hoyt S. Vandenberg. Chief last war.
The spread materialism, of neglect of every individual
cerned with the freedom of the process, literature, painting and of the U.S. Air Force. craftsmanship, mechanisation, the masses.
been turned ordinary people; and the many music have now
other, in Moscow, is Marshal and a general decline in values,
All over the world. In the must identify their freedom into something purely official we are meaning primarily the Twentieth Century, men have and their culture with the free in Itussia. The only sense in Konstantin Vershinin. Chief been shot down;
masses been confronted by the
of the Red Air Force. culture
the irre- dom
culture could of the highest culture, which Yel the othe
higher
democracies concilables
nass cul Culture must be the meeting weapon! for the
For in Korea, American and cultural activities continue, even
a paradoxical one in slite place of values which apply to would be if they seem specialized, and tre
mass freedom versus the whole society. This means which was effective simply Russian aircraft and material are
for the first time. Although opposition has so far separated from the interests of culture.
individualistle freedom, The that the artists and scientists because it was not being used an in combat ordinary people. The highest
thinkers must
restat a weapon at all. That is to say What forces are involved; what bean slight and Russian crews not seem to be Blying in contemporary cultural activities political divisions of the world that
are to n great extent the tendency to think of it would be a life which could are the results so far?
Korea yet, alrcraft from Japan in any epoch have always beer today
concerned with these opposi themselves, and to act,
as fight because I was so infinitely above the lives of the people. lona: it is this which gives our specialists, it also means that worth Gghting for.
are operating under two dis- What is really significant
modern politics Lome of the the whole nocicly must be
The 5th Air Force using 26 advantage time is
of characteristics the decline
of a religious nught to respect individualistic
medium bombers, piston-engined
One:
cuts Distance, which renits.
MUSTANGS and F.80 SHOUT- craftsmanship accompanied by wer
down the tire jet fighter can STAR Jet UT I would rather think that ING Certain things
Aghters, is
the battle area to ab merease in literacy, of the people. This has its good side.
what I have wrliten. One 19
about ten minutes. but it also has the obvious danger
World must in
Its not that the Western
democracy was
centres, strafing
roads
Two: The 120 miles of zea ef making a half-elucated pubile
easy temptation of aggressiveness but
spirit and airfields, S with all religious wars. the avoid the
and shooting up which have to be crossed on the the slaves of fastes exploited by
as an instra of reconciliation. Within culture tanks with rockets.
Operating return journey. high-sounding causes each enlisting culture commerce and by governments have good aims which cover over nwnt of propaganda, in the the knowledge, the deepest ex-
There is a danger, ulso, thu nse temptations. The teinpin- Russian manner. The strengh perlence of life, and the aspiraloo, Is on Australian Air Force shot-up condition.
unable to the higher culture,
tion of the draw new strength from this
There are three strategie bemb arses in to put the and vitality of our cultural life tions of a society are pisimilated contingent of MUSTANGS. life. democratic
whole of culture at the service lies in its freedom, To lose free and transforteed. Within these will be swamped by its debased but all of the popular cause of ceonomic dom would be to lose that which depths of experience there are groups working from Japon, and
Justice for the many
The alone is worth fighting for: and fusions and meetings of points the Military Air Transport Ser- (MÄTS) files men ti too expliclt values, or well he
means complete of view unknown to the theses vier Dennis Morgan isolated from the
life of the emptation of the individualias half-freedom
t to despise
of politics, for here opposites supplies across the Pacific. the masses, and inefficacy, democracy. The only solution
reconciled should
within bo become even to allow their contempt
On the North Korean side only cautious fest the popularisation higher conception of humanity. AT 2.30, 5.15, culture to pencirate and trans-
four types of aircraft have ta Culture is the frith In & 7.20 P.M.
ing the highest values to terms
They are the twin-engined ONLY
For the whole view neet, and in a unity which fa level where Individualism has name of the elite.
attack STORMOVIKK value recungnised
attacks the muny, experience of our time can only attrined by understanding ground
The cherished by the people, no which unger contented simply with the ultimately leads to freedom only be integrated in the arts, and in and not by conquest.
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of this problem is for the higher take the form of suppressing the Democracies Horm the lower one, raising it in freedom of the people in the of culture simply means rea wholeness where all points of far been seen.
Yet the freedom of the few of the lowest.
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