— Portrait of the Week `BRITAIN IS AN ISLAND,' announced The
Times, not mincing words on Monday, and 'the lights are going out all over the merchant navy,' said a spokesman for the Cunard line. 'All Europe is crying out for new potatoes' answered some- one in the vegetable trade, and 'we have to do it' said the sailors. For Britain's merchant seamen carried out their word and struck, the Prime Minister broadcast to, the nation, potato prices rose, in short it was a week of keen excitements which somewhat overshadowed the strike of seven million French workers on Tuesday, and even the great British finger-print plan. None the less, President Franz Jonas of Austria flew in, by hook or by crook, bearing lederhosen for Prince Andrew, and the Queen reminded him of the days when Blondel sang beneath the walls of Diirenstein to Richard Coeur de Lion. South Vietnam seemed on the verge of civil war: and at home Mr Duncan Sandys accused Mr Harold Wilson of 'misleading' the House over Britain's abandonment of the Aden base, and waited for an answer which Mr Michael Stewart could not give him.
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