4 MARCH 1966, Page 3

THE CONDITION OF MR. GERALD BROOKE in his Soviet prison

was reported to be deteriorating and the British government made another of its formal protests. The Soviet authoritia meanwhile achieved a hard landing on Venus and promised an official report of the Daniel- Sinyavsky trial. There was a twenty-four-hour strike on the Paris metro, an increase in foot-and-mouth disease (including among human beings), the inventor of the Hovercraft resigned in protest against government policy, and the Labour MP for Chatham inherited £30,000. The cartoonist Vicky took his own life.