18 DECEMBER 1964, Page 8

Who's Your Agent?

I see that the Congolese Government has arrested the 'literary agent' of the former `Foreign Minister' of the Stanleyville regime, Mr•. Kanza, for his part in the events that lead to the Belgian airdrop. And so, inevitably, I am afraid, that great profession which I always used to somehow associate with Galsworthy, Wells and Winston Churchill's syndication rights goes on the skids to join 'import-export' and `•remittance man' in a semantic limbo. Mr. Kanza, by the way, is that urbane, Harvard-educated diplomatist who threatened that his men of the 'Foreign Ministry' would 'devour' their European captives. After Stanleyville are even 'Prime Ministers' invulner- able in their title, Mr. Wilson?

QUOODI I,