— Portrait of the Week— LORD MONTGOMERY apologised for having
offended the 12,216,166 people who voted Labour, which was the least he could do in the circumstances— the circumstances being that when the last two results were declared on Saturday, the Conserva- tive Party, which received 360,838 fewer votes than the others, had been returned with one hundred more seats. Lord Mountbatten said that if Lord Montgomery had been on active duty he'd have had his head examined, and forty-eight members of the Labour Party at Bolton boycotted the luncheon to his lordship, thus demonstrating that pettiness is not confined to peers. The steel industry, which will not now be nationalised, turned out to be 7,000 tons of sheet-steel deliveries in arrears to Vauxhall Motors, who expected to drop production by about 300 vehicles a week, each worker's wages by about £3 a week, and let down quite a lot of overseas customers. The nationalised gas industry showed a deficit (for the first time) of nearly i1.5 m.; the nationalised BEA showed a record profit of £4.5 m. on the summer season, and hoped that it had persuaded its competitors to reduce fares in Europe. Some privately enterprising believers in private enter- prise got away with £200,000 worth of jewellery from four London branches of the Goldsmiths' and Silversmiths' Association, and the police are after nationalising them. Mr. Grunwald was charged with the fraudulent conversion of in m.
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THE UNITED NATIONS postponed a decision on whether Poland or Turkey should have one of the three non-permanent seats on the Security Council. Ceylon and Ecuador having been elected to the other two. M. Debi* the French Prime Minister, opened a three-day debate on Algeria and said that he would ask for a vote of confidence., Dr. Adenauer said that he expected differences between Britain and West Germany to he resolved, especially after he had visited London, in the near future. British diplomatic correspon- dents all prophesied that before then Mr. Selwyn Lloyd would have visited Paris to sort out differ- ences there. It was announced that West Berlin is to have an atomic power station, and West Germany received 26,000 stone of fish and an £8,000 ship-overhaul contract when members of the Transport and General Workers' Union re- fused to unload an Icelandic trawler at Grimsby. Mr. Oswald Pirow, leader of the prosecution in the South African treason trial, died of a heart attack.' Mr. Eric Louw. South Africa's Minister of External Affairs, confirmed that he would visit Ghana next year, at Dr. Nkrumah's invitation. The Kenya Government announced a new policy that would enable Africans and Indians to farm land in the White Highlands. BOAC announced that their services to Cairo would soon he resumed, with Comets.
A COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS learned that the 'fixing' of television quiz shows had been standard prac- tice `for many, many years,' and that the law can do nothing about it, because of its regard for 'the American people's passion for freedom of speech.' The Daily Mirror dropped its slogan of 'Forward with the People'; its claim to the largest daily sale in the universe; its political commentator. Mr. Richard Crossman; and 'Jane; who had adorned its pages—herself not infrequently un- adorned—since 1932, and who sailed into a strip- cartoon sunset on Saturday, clasped in her boy- friend's arms, still only twenty-six, and showing a gleaming white thigh and a hint of cleavage. The War Office, after brooding over (pus custodiet ipsos custodes? announced that after today the Buckingham Palace sentries will be put behind the railings and shielded from the public.
MR. MACMILLAN'S new Cabinet was produced— Lord HaiIsham responsible for Science, Mr. Macleod for the Colonies. Sir David Eccles for Education; Mr. Edward Heath in, Mr. Geoffrey
Lloyd out.
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