Portrait of the Week— THE WEST GERMAN Ministry of Defence
confirmed that Britain had offtred bases to the Bundeswehr. The United States Treasury gave up trying to get Western Germany to pay £214 million a year— Or: indeed, a red cent—towards the cost of main- taining American troops there. A NATO parlia- Mentarians' conference in Paris supported the iclea of an integrated, mobile nuclear NATO force, France dissenting and Mr. Macmillan not heard from since he curled his lip at 'fifteen fingers on the trigger; fifteen fingers on the safety catch,' At the United. Nations General Assembly the Soviet delegate demanded that all colonial territories 'be granted forthwith complete inde- Pendence.' They weren't.
THE, HOUSE OF COMMONS agreed to submit to the Committee of Privileges Mr. Anthony Wedgwood inn's petition not to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to the House of Lords. In the debate on the Licensing Bill Mr. Butler noted strong chlections to the proposed longer licensed hours ,M1 Sunday from sabbatarians, publicans and housewives, and Mr. Eric Fletcher pointed out that there were cafés used for prostitution, dope- Peddling, abortions and as brothels where no intoxicating liquor ever passed anyone's lips. The French Government proposed to cut down ;ores for cafés and bars, and to establish drink- less zones. Prices of industrial ordinary shares dropped a long way on the London Stock Ex- eaarige, and then bounced some of the way back again.
MOTOR-cna PRODUC1 ION for the month went down by 15 per cent., and Ford shop-stewards, at their annual conference, attacked time-and-motion study methods, Americanisation and the credit Squeeze. besides asking for more money and less work. Seven important hire-purchase companies decided to set up a joint 'credit-rating' list, or directory of bad payers. A committee of inquiry described as 'wanton' and 'irresponsible' the Month-long unofficial strike by the tally clerks at London Docks in September-October. Free car- !arks were opened in London for the Christmas VStreet season, and the decorations in Regent reet and Oxford Street brought more traffic into London in the evenings than the streets could cone with.
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„°11 His WAN, to the Vatican, the Archbishop of Canterbury met the Patriarch of Constantinople, the heads of the Greek Orthodox, Greek Catho- 1_1e, Roman Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Armenian, Coptic and Abyssinian ChUrches in Jerusalem, ak.nd, the Chief Rabbi. Sir Edgar Whitehead, Prime wilnister of Southern Rhodesia, agreed to a separate constitutional conference for his own territory, in addition to next week's Federal con- ference, and to the admission of Mr. Joshua Nkomo; and other African nationalists to both conferences. President Kasavubu returned to h.coPoldville from New York; Mr. Lumumba left Is official residence, where he had been under a t°11 of house arrest for two months, by driving Past Colonel Mobutu's sentries, asleep in their armchairs; the Ghana Government hinted at relaxation of the press laws; Nigerian students rf„"ed in Lagos against the Anglo-Nigerian de- :ace pact, and shots were fired in a clash between rondo tribesmen and South African police.
THREEkMASKEDMEN tied up the guard of a train between Brighton and Victoria with string and 4,`°1c a number of mailbags. Foot-and-mouth disease spread virtually all over the Midlands and North of England, and it was announced that as a result there would be no live animals at the Smithfield Show. Lady Lewisham signed the Pledge.
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