Portrait of the week
GENLRAL DI GAULLE swept halfway home in France with a majority which looked already nearly as fat as before. Mr Wilson consoled him- self with a day-trip to Luxembourg, where he found kind words and keen support for Britain's entry into the Common Market. In Germany, the House of Krupp was out of funds again and promised to become a public company by 1968. There was rioting in Jaipur and shooting in Aden. Mr Tshombe's trial for high treason opened in his absence in the Congo. In Vietnam, the Viet- cong shelled a us gun-site, killing five and wound- ing more; the Americans admitted that their planes had mistakenly bombcd the wrong village last week. killing 105 inhabitants. And in Australia, Lord Thomson of Fleet defined his political position: Conservative, but supporting the Labour government (perhaps the word 'trimmer' escaped him for the moment).
MEANWHILE, at home, the sec refused leave to Mrs Whitehouse to clean up in person on the box, SO ITV invited her instead; the Postmaster- General unveiled an astounding new stamp with no writing on it; and political cartoonists drew nothing but dogs all week. Mr Sidney Silverman exchanged notes with the Chief Whip, detailing what he called his bites at enormous length, and Mr Michael Foot said he was not one to stand by and see 'the House of Commons debased.' Mr Gerald Nabarro then barked on his bench like a dos, and seventeen Labour Members de- clined to vote for an order withholding pay from limb-fitters. And, following his triumph as Mac- beth, the Prince of Wales prepared to play the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance.
THE NRGNII I( ENT and practically unknown Gam- bier-Parry collection of early Italian paintings was exhibited in London, and the sale of Armenian manuscripts at Sotheby's was cancelled as mys- teriously as it had begun. The Government made up its mind at last to deal with our two million unlicensed Tv owners, and the Scots express was partly derailed on Sunday, making the second fatal accident within a week. A monkey named Martine landed fit and well in the Sahara after travelling 150 miles into space in a French rocket; and the Emperor Hirohito of Japan planned to publish a work on the classification of low forms of life, iocluding his life's passion. jellyfish.
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