Portrait of the Week— EASTER WAS CELEBRATED in Britain with
the usual Pagan rites of human sacrifice, the victims being laid out in rows and gone over with motor-cars until nicely clOne. The Minister of Transport was said to be studying the figures. In South Korea, where Easter is later than elsewhere, some hundreds of demonstrators were mown down by President Syngman khee's forces for protesting at his ETU methods of ensuring his re-election. On the other hand, practically nobody killed any- 6°4 else in South Africa, and many people walked to Trafalgar Square, in some cases from half-way across Berkshire, to emphasise their Conviction that nobody ought to kill anybody anywhere else either. or at least not with hydro- gen bombs TRAFFIC JAMS twenty-six miles long were reported on British roads at the end of the Easter holiday, though early reports that the success of the Aldermaston march was due to the decision of many motorists to get out and walk proved to he premature. The final rally in Trafalgar Square was estimated to have been attended by anything up to 100,000 people. and a notable feature of the march was that the roadsides had in many Places been crowded with well-wishers, the in- difference and hostility of previous years having seemingly vanished. Similar marches were Planned in Japan. and began in Western Ger- many. In the United States Dr. Barbara Moore walked on
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THE SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET TEAM arrived in Britain and met with apparent fortitude the anti- ?Puri/mid demonstration that greeted them. Back In their home country, hundreds more Africans 0", ere rounded up by the force% of misrule and held incommunicado. There was less violence, hut more tension, and the strike called by the underground African organisations appeared to have met with little response. Meanwhile, Dr. verWoerd continued to make progress, if that is the word AS PRESIDENT SYNGMAN RHEE'S South Korean dictatorship took a turn for the bloodier, the United States Ambassador hoped that notice would be taken by the South Korean Govern- ment of the justifiable grievances that had led to the demonstrations, and since those grievances included President Rhee's -habit , of having his Political opponents arrested, imprisoned, tortured and killed, it was felt that notice Was about all that would be taken of them.
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'IR- DUNCAN SANDYS declared that he was on the side of the angels, and Mr. Watkinson, still carry- ing Mr. Sandys's Blue Streak can, might have been Pardoned for wishing he would join them. Mr. SandYs, however, denied that £100 million had been wasted on the project, and insisted that it would all come out in the ■:vash, or possibly the whitewash.
* MIDDLE-AGED MEN looked anxiously in the mirror the signs of grey hairs when it was learned that we Faqir of Ipi had died. The Faqir, whose real name Was, of course, Haji Mirza Ali Khan, was in Utmanzai Wazir of the Tori Khel Sept, and formerly Imam of a mosque at Ipi, in the Daur tract the Times the Lower Tochi Valley. That was what lite Times said, anyway. But many regretted the Passing of the last of the old-style insurgents of the North-West Frontier. There were no tele- grams of condolence from the Oni of lie or the Akond of Swat, or even the Khur of Khashdoun and Getaweh.
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