Portrait of the Wee
PRESIDENT DE GAULLE returned earlier than he had intended from Algeria, where clashes between Muslims, colons, French metropolitan troops and the Foreign Legion reached almost the scale of civil war, and in which over a hundred people. were killed and many hundreds Wounded. The President said that he would carry On with his policy, all the same, and that the referendum on Algeria would be held next month as planned. In Abyssinia, it seemed unlikely that the relatives of Haile Selassie (now in South America) would allow him to return at all.
111r. OFFICIAL OPPOSMON motion on defence was defeated in the Commons by 318 votes to 163. he unofficial opposition to the official Opposi- bon—fifty or so strong—refrained from voting. Hot all parties sympathised with Michael Foot on the death of his distinguished, Cromwellian father. The Treasury and the Bank agreed to reduce Bank rate to 5 per cent., thus demonstrat- ing that we were nicer and kinder than the Germans in helping the Americans over their balance-of-payment difficulties. Dr. Banda, Mr. Kaunda. Mr. Nkomo and their respective African nationalist delegations walked out of the Federal Review Conference at Lancaster ouse.
A BLIZZARD swept the eastern United States, forcing a cancellation of the United Nations Assembly meeting, and causing some two hundred deaths. New York was pretty well cut olf from the outside world, and a million people Were unable to get into the city to work, but it was expected that Adlai Stevenson, the new Ambassador to the United Nations, would even- tually reach his desk. Other appointments by the President-elect included Dean Rusk and Chester Bowles as Secretary and Under-Secretary of State.
1414 GOVERNMENT made it clear that it wanted to see Communist China in the United Nations. The Soviet Government Warned Britain against the possible results of 'provocations' by Polaris submarines based on Britain, even if they occurred outside British territorial waters; and !hen wagged its finger at the United States for encroaching on the sovereign rights of the Laotian Government.' In the Congo, Mr. Lumumba's former private secretary, Mr. !laInu, threatened to cut off European heads; Lumumba's former deputy, Mr. Gizenga, said that he was the legal ruler of the country, !Pd.. proclaimed Stanleyville as his capital. In Isritish Honduras, a nationalist politician was nned ninety dollars for not having paid customs „dutY on the two thousand boxes of matches !ound in his possession bearing the slogan, 121".'n with the British.'
AFTER NINE MONTHS' negotiation, the professional Pootball League clubs rejected the players' claim to negotiate their own contracts and rates of pay; the Professional Footballers' Association decided to call a strike. On the grounds that 'we are more enlightened these days,' the parish council of Fcqvling, a Yorkshire village, asked to have the Illuminated sign 'URINAL,. on its public lava- tr,°.rY, as approved in Diagram 423 of the Traffic aIgns Regulations and General Directions of 1,957, changed to `GENTS'—or to 'GENTLEMEN' if triere was room. In Paris, the prostitutes demon- strated against a proposal to regularise their situa- tion, and echoed the mood of Algeria by shout- :4 `de Gaulle to the gallows' as they were 0 und led into the police wagons.
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