—Portrait of the Week
THE KENYA GOVERNMENT brought down a brace of weekly newspapers with a left and right, as well as making thirty-four arrests; there were fresh riots in Nyasaland. In the Near East, Colonel Shawaf, the leader of the revolt in Iraq, if there was a revolt, and it was in Iraq, was variously, but contemporaneously, reported as 'marching on Baghdad, sure of victory,' as having been 'cap- tured, with his despicable companions,' and dead. Mr. Khrushchev made fresh suggestions, about Berlin in East Germany, and Mr. Macmillan ex- plained his earlier ones to General de Gaulle. Archbishop Makarios pinned a medal on Colonel Grivas's chest, but omitted to confirm his pro- motion to the brevet rank of general. The Electri- cal Trades Union made the.strike at the Morris Commercial Car factory official, and Mr. Thomas Lynch, president of the National Union of Small Shopkeepers, was ifi and out and in again at the by-election at East Harrow.
LORD PERTH is to visit Nyasaland, said Mr. Lennox-Boyd, 'at the earliest possible date,' which. observed the parliamentary correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, can be taken as meaning very soon. He will find bridges blown and roads blocked, and British-protected persons mourning the deaths at the hands of British security forces of at least forty-four of their people. (This was the number known to have been killed before March 7: it may now be higher.) Sir Roy Welensky accused the 'British Labour Party of harming race relations in the Federation.
UMPING EAST GERMANY. Mr. Khrushchev said that West Berlin must become a free city, and suggested that Soviet and neutral troops should join the Western forces there, and that there might be United Nations guarantees. Herr Willy Brandt. Lord Mayor of the city, was so impressed by these proposals that he refused to meet Mr. Khrushchev, unlike Herr 011enhaucr, the leader of the West German Social Democratic Party, to which Herr Brandt belongs, and which now intends to send a mission to Moscow. Meanwhile. President Eisen- hower has said that the US will not fight a ground war for Berlin. which had many people anxiously watching the sky.
HR. CHESSER. a contributor to the BMA booklet Getting Married, which was recently withdrawn:- was himself withdrawn from the television screen, after Associated Television and ITA had decided that .the programme Right to Reply was 'not suitable' for putting out early in the evening. The Home Secretary promised the Law Society that transcripts of tapped telephone conversations that include privileged communications between solici- tor and client will not be disclosed for the pur- pose of legal proceedings, but he did not promise to stop tapping telephones.
Commander Courtney. the Conservative candi- date. has vetoed • a television programme on the East Harrow by-election; he .thought it wrong— though his Labour opponent did not—that equal time should be given to Mr. Lynch. the 'small shopkeepers candidate.' who stands for •less in- come tax, no purchase tax and no more messing abbot with motorists by the police. Lady Docker had €150,000 worth of jewels pinched • from her Rolls-Royce : she never had this kind of trouble With her Daimler.
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