Portrait of the Week— THE TORY REBELS trampling over the
Heath were winning their battle, with 150 amendments to the price-fixing Bill to help them. Off the Hogg's back may go Crossman, not the MP but his cousin, about to go down the brain drain to the States. Britain's trade figures improved, so much so that the Government could spare £20,000 towards the Olympics fund. City-dwellers suddenly realised that an eight-storey building, 90 ft. high, will ruin their view of St. Paul's, and MPs suddenly realised that millions had been spent on research into nuclear merchant ships, with little to show for the money but the memory of factional bickering between research groups. The War Office also has nothing to show this year, and cancelled its Army display at Aldershot as 'too many troops are engaged in trouble spots over- seas.' The Post Office was its own trouble spot, with a one-day strike fixed for April 16. The price review gave farmers more, and made milk a halfpenny a pint dearer.
A UN POLICE FORCE for Cyprus became a reality, after the UK publicly threatened to call back all troops within three days. Back-bench MPs raised £38 towards the cost of the UN force, and right-wing spleen was further enraged by photo- graphs of President Makarios and the Duke of Edinburgh side by side at the funeral of King Paul of Greece. President de Gaulle met Ben Bella for the first time, and visited Mexico, making a five-minute speech in Spanish and call- ing for a 'special relationship' between France and Mexico. In Dallas justice was seen to be done by almost as many as saw the original crime, when Jack Ruby was found guilty in two and a half hours. His lawyer, in a hysteria that no TV lawyer would have allowed himself, said he was frightened that someone would sneak into Ruby's cell and knife him. Republican leaders were still looking for a candidate to stand against President Johnson in November: with Rocke- feller and Goldwater way out, and Lodge in Saigon, Nixon's chances seemed no worse than anybody else's. An unfortunate week for field- marshals, with Okello arriving in Nairobi with is. 6d., but buying a Peugeot car, and Mwariama, who only three months ago came out of the Kenyan forests, going to prison for five years.
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LORD SOUTHAMPTON renounced his title, to be- come Mr. Charles FitzRoy, intent on 'concen- trating on wine, women and salmon fishing. A week of bizarre press headlines, with 'Sitwell Bust Found' taking pride of place over 'Protestant Convent Disappears.' A group of Australians left to teach the Russians cricket, yin ordinaire went on sale in the UK, and the. Bishop of Southwark formed a limited company, the Mervyn Stock- wood Society Ltd. Its aim: to maintain, advance and promote the Christian religion.'
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