21 JANUARY 1966, Page 3

AS THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT was preparing tougher sanctions against Rhodesia,

Sir Hugh Beadle, the Rhodesian Chief Justice, arrived unexpectedly to see Mr. Wilson. Mr. Ian Smith claimed some oil was beating the embargo, but few were impressed. A new system of cash payments to induce British industry to modern- ise was announced, but no one seemed greatly impressed by that either. France enraged her Common Market partners at Luxembourg, more American troops reached Vietnam, and a Royal Naval boarding party quelled a mutiny aboard a British ship off Aden.