-- Portrait of the Week— GENERAL CEMAL GURSEL, chairman of the
National Unity Committee, took power in Turkey by a coup and assumed the offices of President, Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Com- mander-in-Chief, pending the promised free elec- tions and the restoration (or introduction) of democratic parliamentary government. Mr. Men- deres, the former prime minister, was held to await trial, and Mr. Namik Gedik, his unpopular Minister of the Interior, who was widely regarded as having been personally responsible for the harsh suppression of student demonstrations against the Menderes Government, died by auto- defenestt.ation. Another displaced personage, Mr. .iyngman Rhee, flew from South Korea to Hawaii, some said for a little holiday, some said to escape retribution. President de Gaulle pro- posed a confederated Europe to become 'the pivot of the world'; Vice-President Nixon spoke out against the 'appeasement' of Mr. Khrushchev; and Marshal Malinovsky, Mr. Khrushchev's constant companion throughout the Summit preliminaries in Paris, said that he had ordered rocket attacks against any base from which aircraft infiltrated Soviet or allied air space. In the Security Council, Mr. Cabot Lodge demonstrated a device by which the Soviet security police had introduced a micro- phone some years ago into the United States Embassy in Moscow: details were refused to the Press, presumably lest the Soviet security police (who did not trouble to deny their responsibility) should learn how the thing worked.
DR. VERWOERD made his first public appearance since the attempt on his life, and said that he firmly believed that South Africa would become a republic. Christianity, he said, was threatened more in Africa than anywhere else; he modestly refrained from saying by whom. The Corfield report on the origins and growth of the Mau Mau movement severely criticised the Kenya admini- stration as it was before the arrival of Sir Evelyn Baring as Governor, and lifted none of the responsibility for the leadership of Mau Mau from the shoulders of Jomo Kenyatta. A Chinese expedition reached the summit of Everest by the previously unclimbed northern slope, finding on the way the body of a British climber, presum- ably that of Maurice Wilson, who attempted the summit alone in 1934. On the top, Wang Fu-Chou made a speech attributing the Chinese conquest of Everest to the leadership of the Communist, Party, and unveiled a statue of Mao Tse-tung.
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MISS SOPHIA LOREN, an Italian film actress, had £185.000 worth of • jewellery stolen from her house near Elsiree, but gallantly continued to Play her part in the film of Shaw's The Million- airess. The British Government added rather more than this sum to its contribution to World Refugee Year, which ended on Monday, more than £8 million having been raised in this country. Jaguar Cars bought Daimler Cars for an undisclosed amount; the National Coal Board's accounts for 1959 showed a deficit of £24 million; and the Treasury gave £75,000 towards the cost of a Gainsborough portrait bought by the National Gallery.
BORIS PASTERNAK, Nobel prize-winner, died at his home near Moscow, receiving a five-line obit in one Soviet paper. A plague of kangaroos was reported from Northern Australia; Mr. Khrushchev presented Mr. Nehru and other Indian dignitaries with five polar bears and two Siberian tigers; thousands of roach and perch died in St. James's Park lake from a fungoid infec- tion of the gills; and the RSPCA stepped smartly in at Liverpool to save fourteen stowaway parrots from destruction.
THE DERBY was won by St. Paddy, with Alcaeus second and Kythnos third. The favourite, Angers, broke a fetlock and was destroyed.
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