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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

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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..

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** 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.

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Responsibility attacks the

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So the authorities

men

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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

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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

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By Wing Commander PAUL RICHEY, DFC.

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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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