Portrait of the Week— ' THE UNITED STATES. said Mr. Dean
Rusk, 'is fighting Communism with one leg in a splint be-
cause of colour discrimination,' and the Adminis- tration clearly means business. The Supreme Court ruled immediate desegregation of parks and playing fields in Memphis, Tennessee, up- held the entry of Federal troops into Alabama and declared that delay on desegregating schools was straining too hard the eight-year-old formula With all deliberate speed. Robert Kennedy re- ceived James Meredith. the Negro who entered the University of Oxford, Mississippi, last autumn; a second Negro is to try for entrance next week and the same Mr Kennedy saw cinema
and theatre owners about desegregating places of entertainment.
AMERICANS TOOK INITIATIVES in other fields also: Senator Hubert Humphrey gained support for a Senate motion urging the President to seek a limited nuclear test-ban treaty; the NATO Coun-
cil meeting ended with agreement on an inter- allied force in fact if not in name, and Admiral Claude D. Ricketts is being dispatched to Britain next week to press the plan. and the bill, for a mixed-manned surface Polaris force. Lord Mont- gomery described the scheme as poppycock and said he would as well have a fleet manned by a Party of politicians.
BRITISH RELATIONSHIPS with Nigeria ran into fur- ther strain when the Judicial Committee of the Nigerian Council reversed the decision of the 'Nigerian Supreme Court over the rightful Premier
of the Western Region; the Nigerian Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Balewa, was instrumental in bringing about the Organisation for African
Unity at Addis. Ababa with a permanent secre- tariat and a council of Foreign Ministers meeting "vice a year. African Heads of State will meet annually,
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OLD SORES FESTERED—fighting broke out again in the Yemen, eleven men were executed in Iraq for opposing the February revolution, Cyprus simmered and an Anglican canon called the Thirty nineArticles dishonest. Some names re- turned to the news. Adam Faith's guitarist was killed. Manchester United won the FA Cup and, amid protest, ex-German Defence Minister Herr Strauss visited Israel for mysterious services ren- dered when he was Minister, The Israelis changed the name of their anti-tank missile SS 11 to anti-tank missile 11. The recurrent recurred: Mr. Winston Field came to London to talk about Southern Rhodesian independence; Mr. Kenneth „,Kaunda, also in London. forecast that Sir Roy "elensky would be Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister in twelve months' time, and Mr. Harry I
House campaigned for a Northern Rhodesian rk.souse of Chiefs just like the House of Lords.
Jomo Kenyatta's KANU won exactly twice as many seats as KADU for the Kenya House of Representatives, Sit( KEITH JOSEPH introduced a White Paper on housing promising 350,000 new houses a year in near future and a Housing Corporation to further group ownership and group building with £100 million of government aid. The Transport and General Workers' Union voted against a strike at Ford's, Dagenham, so the seventeen men retrain finally dismissed. Elsewhere the motor in- dustry was not so happy; there were strikes at Jaguar and Rootes and at Pressed Steel, Oxford.
was an explosion at the Daily Worker, the editor of the Sunday Express resigned and there Sitr Edward Boyle announced plans for an edu- cational Neddy and 'Mr. Harold Wilson told e4n1Paign for Education that not only would 7,see there were forty-five universities, but all university education would be free.
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