1 APRIL 1966, Page 3

CHINA STAYED AWAY from the twenty-third party congress in Moscow,

and Mr Brezhnev suggested a Sino-Soviet summit meeting to discuss the countries' chronic differences. Mr Goldberg, America's chief representative at the UN, announced that the US was ready to discuss disarmament with China. Mr Geoffrey Bing, former Labour MP and more recently Ghana's attorney-general, was re- leased from an Accra prison and allowed to come to this country—a few days too early, as it happened, to benefit from the new 'Welcome to Britain' signs which have now been erected at London's airports.