— Portrait of the Week — DR. ADENAUER TOLD MR. MACMILLAN that
he was prepared to buy more arms from Britain, to give us a hand in our financial difficulties; meanwhile the Government took £450,000, to be going on with, out of the ITA's surplus for 1960/61 of over £1,300,000. The Shipbuilding Employers' Federation rejected a claim from shipbuilding workers for less work and more pay, but Dr. !leeching said that he would meet the three railway unions to talk about a 10 per cent. pay rise for half a million railway men. The go-slow movement in the Post Office continued; more concern seemed to be expressed in the public prints over pools coupons than over business communications, and more over business communications than over love letters. A letter Posted in North London, with the message on the hack, 'Up with the Go Slow, Down with the Wage Pause,' elicited a heartfelt response: it took four days to travel six miles. To deal with the pile-up or mail the Postmaster-General stopped the par- cel post into and out of London except parcels going abroad or to the Forces.
AN OAS BOMB EXPLODED in the French Delegate- General's headquarters in Algeria where it had been disclosed that in the last two months 247 OAS men—forty-four of them killers—had been captured, from whom it was learned that the rate of pay was £35 a month and out-of-pocket expenses for a killer, with an extra £50 a month if married. It was announced in Moscow that Mr. Molotov had gone back to Vienna to resume his job as Soviet delegate to the International Atomic Agency, and then it was announced in Moscow that he hadn't. West German police cut out the pages in a Munich magazine in which it was reported that the Adenauer Government Was getting a deep shelter ready for itself. Lord Home had a look at the Wall from the top of the old Reichstag and pronounced it 'too horrible.'
UTHANT TURNED DOWN a British invitation to visit Sir Roy Welensky and discuss the alleged frontier violations he said that Sir Roy's rejection of his Proposal to send United Nations observers to Rhodesia to guard against illegal traffic in men and arms with Katanga was couched 'in Phraseology that could not be described as gracious.' Meanwhile, however, the Rhodesian Government expelled twenty-six Frenchmen and a Spaniard for not having valid transit visas : they were said to be part of a group of mercen- aries bound for Katanga. The Katangan foreign minister said that there was a United Nations Plan afoot to put the Congo under tutelage for twenty-five years, and that Katanga would never allow this odious form of colonialism.
THE 'KEEP BRITAIN GREAT' MOVEMENT got in ahead of the Committee for Nuclear Disarmament in booking Trafalgar Square for an Easter Monday
It also got a Reverend John Collins on to its committee. The other John Collins (not the long drink but the Canon of St. Paul's) said that Trafalgar Square was too small for the CND these days anyway, and that he was after Hyde Park. He resisted the temptation to add that the 'Keep Britain Great' John Collins wasn't even a rural dean. There was a merger of two firms that handle between than 90 per cent. of the country's ear-auction business, and of shoe-shop groups that include Saxone, Lilley and Skinner, Freeman Hardy and Willis, Dolcis, Manfield and Trueform —about 2,000 shops and a couple of dozen factories. Courtaulds turned down a takeover hid by ICI of £180,000,000 and ICI said that they were prepared to discuss other ways of getting together. Dr. Alan Nunn May got a job in Ghana. and Lord Snowdon got one in Gray's Inn Road.
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