— Portrait of the Week— ' DON'T WORRY, OLD CHAP,' said Mr.
Sandys at Accra airport, having reconnoitred the proposed route of the Queen and President Nkrumah, and on his way back to say the same thing to Mr. Macmillan. Princess Margaret gave birth to Viscount Linley, and Prince Philip said, 'That's a great relief all round. Everyone can rest now.'
MR. KHRUSHCHEV SAID that the Soviet Union pre- ferred its nuclear tests in the atmosphere because it was cheaper and more efficient: he said the reason that the West spent a lot of money on underground tests was to keep them secret. Mar- shal Voroshilov was refused admission to the saluting base on Red Square, where he had always had a place of honour for the celebrations of the anniversary of the Revolution, but he managed to gatecrash a Kremlin party. Mme Trotsky be- gan to talk about rehabilitation for her husband, whose name has been taboo in the Soviet Union. Lord Home, the British Foreign Secretary, de- clined an invitation to the anniversary party at the Soviet Embassy in London, but sent a repre- sentative; and Mr. Molotov was a notable absentee from the party in Vienna.
A STATE OF EMERGENCY was declared in Athens, where a storm killed thirty-nine people and ren- dered some thousands homeless. Martial law was proclaimed in Belize, capital of British Honduras, where looters ransacked the ruins after a hurri- cane had almost destroyed the city, killing hun- dreds. The British Government made a grant of £10,000, and the United States Government one of £100,000. Brush fires swept over Los Angeles, destroying the homes, minks, vicuna coats and Impressionist paintings of a considerable number of film actors and actresses, but providing useful publicity: everybody seemed to have been very brave, not to say nonchalant. Three people were killed in a Guy Fawkes Night party fire at a Thames-side bungalow belonging to Mr. Tommy Steele's manager.
A MUTINY of the Chimborazo Regiment of the Ecuadorian Army, in support of the Vice-Presi- dent, Senor Arosemena, was put down, and the ringleaders sent to Guayaquil for transportation to the Galapagos Wands. Dr. Adenauer was re- elected Chancellor of Western Germany; Mr. Karamanlis became Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth consecutive time; and Mapai, Mr. Ben- Gurion's party, got most of the posts in Israel's new coalition government. President de Gaulle said in Corsica that the end of the war in Algeria was now in sight: the house he was received in was damaged by a bomb; the French Director of Public Prosecutions said that the bodies of sixty murdered Moslems had been found in and around Paris in the past month; thirty-nine Algerians escaped from a prison in the Dordogne; the Paris Bar Council protested against the maltreatment of Moslem prisoners, of whom there are now about 2,500; and a Dr. Cohen was murdered in Algiers, apparently by the OAS. The South African Government gave ex-chief Luthuli a passport so that he could go to Oslo to receive his Nobel Peace Prize, which it described as 'a debasement' of the award. Mr. Jomo Kenyatta arrived in Lon- don to meet the Colonial Secretary, flourishing a 4-whisk.
THE POLL at the Moss Side by-election was less than 50 per cent., compared with 70 per cent. at the General Election : the Conservatives held the seat, the Liberal beat the Socialist for second Place, and the Union Movement candidate lost his deposit. The South African Government de- clared Japanese gentlemen to be honorary white men in hotels and on park benches, but not in sexual intercourse: Chinese still aren't white at all. Mr. John Aspinall's mother-in-law, happily recovered from having been bitten on the nose
by a chimpanzee, was bitten on the finger by a tiger.
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