—Portrait of the Week— THE MOON, and the prestige of
the United States, got a black eye at two minutes and twenty-four seconds past 10 p.m. on Sunday night. On Tues- day, Mr. Khrushchev struck while the iron was hot; he arrived, with his wife and family, in Washington, and was greeted by (among other things) President Eisenhower and a banner over a camera shop reading 'Shoot Khrushchev with our film.' Observers reported that Mr. Khrushchev was wearing a carefully pressed suit, a silk tie and a Homburg hat; and he has not so far been recorded as inviting his hosts to twist anything round their whiskers until shrimps begin to whistle. The welcoming crowds were substantial and courteous. Roughly at the same time Mr. Selwyn Lloyd arrived in the United States; he, too, was smartly dressed and there were no hostile demonstrations against him either. Nor were there any welcoming crowds.
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THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN battled with the lunik, Mr. Khrushchev and Mr. Pod.°la for the front pages, and to the great relief of many citizens appeared to be losing the battle. The Labour tmd Conservative manifestoes were published; neither, happily, promised the moon. The public-opinion polls still showed the Conservatives. clearly in the lead, but Transport House appeared cheerful, if only at the prospect of getting rid of.Mr:.Morgan Phillips, once more dickering with the miners of Derbyshire about a seat in the House. The Liberal candidate at Maldon withdrew from the contest on the grounds that his intervention might damage the Conservative candidate's chances of winning, and Mr. Grimond entered the contest with a speech at the Central Hall in which. he ,did not appear to be at all worried about damaging the Conservatives' chances of winning the election, or the Labour Party's either. The Labour Party came close to promising votes at eighteen, but shied off at the last moment, and the Conservative Party went all the way to a promise that they would not decontrol the rent of any more houses. There the matter rests at present.
THE CAMPAIGN for Nuclear Disarmament began a week of demonstrations against the hydrogen bomb, and Mr. and Mrs. John Osborne were widely pictured carrying sandwich-boards in Whitehall. Meanwhile, there seemed to be some relaxation of the tension between India and China along the McMahon Line. though the Kwangming Doily asserted that the Indian attitude was inspired by imperialist plots. Tension between Archbishop Makarios and General Grivas, however, appeared to he rising; hard words were exchanged, and a meeting between them became less likely.
MEDICAL EVIDENCE was given at great length in the case of Gunther Podola, in which the jury is to decide whether he is fit to stand trial on a charge of capital murder. Doctors, as is usual, disagreed, and the judge disagreed with one of the doctors.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was called in to investigate complaints that a horse had been kept in a house in Leaming- ton Spa. The owner of the house (not to mention the horse) denied that the horse had been in the living-room. 'It has only been in the scullery,' she said, 'for a drink of water:-
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GENERAL DE GAuLLE, intent on emphasising that they order all these things better in France, announced that a peaceful Algeria could soon hope to decide its own future and choose its own constitution.
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