—Portrait of the Week
DR. ADENAUER DECIDED not to be President of Western Germany after all; the French President decided against American nuclear bases on French soil; the Foreign Ministers at Geneva didn't decide anything.
IT WAS UNOFFICIALLY STATED, and widely believed. that General Norstad, Supreme Allied Com- mander in Europe, had decided to withdraw 200 American fighter-bombers from France, and to base them instead in Germany, because General de Gaulle would not let him arm them with atom bombs. At the Atlantic Congress in London General Norstad said, nevertheless, that 'we arc strong from the overall military standpoint,' and getting stronger. Not every delegate, not even every American delegate, agreed with him, and M. Paul-Henri Spaak said that the progress of NATO was not proportionate to its problems. Behind closed doors in Bonn, a quarrel with Dr. Adenauer over: his decision to remain Federal Gerrnan Chancellor impelled the Speaker of the Bundestag to rush out, shouting unreported things over his shoulder. Behind closed doors in Geneva, the Foreign Ministers, according to a Soviet spokes- man, were 'nearing the accomplishment of the work of the conference.' Asked to clarify this statement, he, added that 'every conference has to come to an end of its work even if no results are achieved.'
ANOTHER UNION, a small one, added its voice to that of the big National Union of General and Municipal Workers in calling for nuclear dis- armament, unilateral if necessary. The Com- munist leaders of the ETU received an ovation at the annual conference, and proceeded to tear a strip off the union's bolshies. The TUC stepped into the dispute in the shipyards, but not into that in the printing works. The Burnham Committee said that primary- and secondary-school teachers ought to begin their careers at £520 a year; the Minister of Education said that £510 was enough; and more than 200 teachers in Hayes, Harlington, Ruislip, Northwood, Uxbridge, Southall and Acton declared that they were prepared to down chalks until they got £600.
A SORT OF FLYING SAUCER took the (English) air; a United States submarine delivered mail by guided missile; and the President of the Post Office Engineering Union said that the British telephone service ought to get out of the mail-coach age. A British aircraft carrier was unable to leave the naval base at Rosyth because the wind was too strong; and the chairman of the Channel Tunnel Company, at its seventy-eighth annual meeting. thought that the time had come for civil engineers to investigate the project. In London, Tshekcdi Khama died.
THE DIRECTORS OF SCHWEPPES LTD., who make soft drinks, and the directors of Chivers and Sons Ltd., who make jams, announced that they were to become, so to speak, Schwivers, but not•whcthcr their products would also become amalgamated. A firm of insurance brokers, supported by the London and Manchester Assurance Company, announced that it would lend people the money to save up with. Dr. Billy Graham, the American evangelist, took an evening walk in Hyde Park, and said that what they had seen there embar- rassed him and his wife; Mr. Liberace, the American. entertainer, took the stand tt.t. the Law Count, and said that what had been written Omni him in the baily Mirror had upset him and his mother.
IN HIS FIRST DAY aS Singapore's Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Ong Pang Boon hanged a ban on some pin-up papers and a strip-tease show.
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