—Portrait of the Week
IN MS ADDRESS to theUnited Nations, President Kennedy proposed 'a ban on transferring the con- trol of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear States (as !t might be Germany). He stood out against a troika' replacement for the late Mr. Hammar- skjald, suggested the formation of a permanent United Nations army, and made a guarded refer- ence to 'the historical and legitimate interests of Others' (as it might be the Soviet Union) in assuring European security, the freedom of West Berlin and Western access to it. Previously, a United States senator had suggested the recogni- tion of East Germany, in return for making the Whole of Berlin a free city. Mr. Gromyko said that the Soviet Union was ready to agree to a United Nations guarantee of West Berlin's status as a free city, and described President Kennedy's Challenge to 'a peace race' as `rattling the sabre and spouting threats.' President Kennedy then Went off on a six-day 'working holiday'—to Rhode Island, not having had enough, it would seem, of the Reds.
TUE. GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED that it would not honour the Industrial Court's award of LI a Week wage increase to Admiralty employees, and offered 8s. instead. A thousand workers at the British Light Steel Pressings factory who had been on unofficial strike were threatened with the sack by both their employers and their union. Thirty-two thousand workers at the Ford factory at Dagenham refused to back. an unofficial strike and voted for national trade union negotiators, not shop stewards, to conduct their affairs. The Liberal Assembly, meeting at Edinburgh, called as usual, and to the usual effect, for a great leap forward. The programme of proceedings for next month's Conservative Party Conference at Brighton was published: among the fifty-eight resolutions calling for more hanging and flog- ging was one that 'urges the Government to con- sider reintroducing the death penalty for all types of murder and corporal punishment for crimes of violence whether or not statistically indicated to act as a deterrent.'
bit• CONOlt O'BRIEN SAID that there was a hope of reopening talks between the Katangan and the Central Congolese Governments. Meanwhile negotiations opened between the government of Katanga and the United Nations truce commis- sion and bogged down over the Katanga demand for. the withdrawal of United Nations troops. A Rhodesian white woman claimed damages from the Katanga Government because her husband had been eaten while serving in the Katangan °MY. A pack of marauding hyenas -attacked children in Nyasaland villages; nobody so far has accused them of being in the pay either of Watt Street or the Kremlin. The President Of Ghana dismissed the British General who was chief of his defence staff: the General said that the reason for the dismissal was `political.'
NIERRA LEONE BECAME the hundredth member of the United Nations, after the British delegate gave full support to 'the excellent proposal' just made by the Soviet delegate. It was expected that !he news would be received with polite interest in Peking. A five-thousand-pound reward was offered for the recovery of Goya's portrait of the t'stIke of Wellington stolen from the National Gallery, and a quarter of a million pounds' worth Of old masters was stolen in Sicily. The Daily exPress headed a forecast by its scientific corre- sPondent, 'No War in Europe,' and readers who ;Membered similar. Daily Exiire,vs headlines in 1939 scuttled towards their air-raid shelters.
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