—Portrait of the Week— MR. MACMILLAN ANNOUNCED that the general
election would be held on October 8, and made it clear that he proposes to fight it on foreign affairs. Mr. Gaitskell said that he had already been told the date by Mr. Khrushchev, who had read it in the English papers. Mr. Cousins said that he was delighted; Mrs. Castle said, 'Straight ahead to vic- tory': and Mr. Grimond said, 'Get on and get in.' Blackpool decided to make the best of the Trades Union Congress, which continued its delibera- tions, as there will not now be a Labour Party conference: bang went €50,000, Meanwhile, the TUC decided to inquire into 'unofficial actions by shop stewards,' and 102 Morris Motors machinists returned to work after an unofficial strike, and then banned overtime for a couple of days as a protest against not having their grievances dis- cussed immediately. The TUC endorsed the Gaitskell-Bevan line on nuclear disarmanierit by a two-to-one ma.;ority. in. spite of Mr. Cousins-- and then voted against American bases on British soil, in spite of the General Council.
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MR. EISENFIDWER reached an agreement. it was said, with General de Gaulle in Paris; played golf in Scotland; and returned home, where he made a speech, found it hot, and said, 'PheW!' The Dalai Lama accused the Chinese of trying to wipe out the Tibetan race, and the United States. accused them of foment'ng rebellion in Laos. The Chinese, for a change, accused the Indians of aggression, by occupying places claimed as Chinese territory. The Security Council found a way of vetoing vetoes, and dispatched a sub- committee to Laos. in spite of Soviet objections; Britain decided to send out an investigator of its
own, the United Kingdom Commissioner-General in Singapore.
.11-11: FOUR CIRF.AT POWERS announced that a new disarmament committee has been set up and will meet in Geneva early next year. It was decided that American Thor missiles in. Britain should not be kept too terribly ready. and the National Insti- tute for Cancer Research reported to the British Association that radioactive fall-out isn't as dan- gerous as it might have been, after all, becauSe human beings digest it better than they were
expected to. The Ministry of Supply stated that it would buy Fairey Rotodyne vertical take-off air-
liners, and a companv was formed to connect
• London, Manchester and Birmingham by heli- coptzr.
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LORD MONCKTON was appointed chairman of the commission which will advise on the constitution of the Rhodesian Federation next year. Sir Patrick Renison was appointed Governor of Kenya. in Place of Sir Evelyn Baring, soon to retire (and ill after his gallant rescue of an Indian girl from drowning). Requests were made for a review of the case of Dr. Banda, detained for the last six Months. The newly integrated junior high school
at Little Rock reopened, but not before three bombs had gone off.
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MR. EAmt.wsi ANDREWS announced that he had accepted the chairmanship of a hoard that will operate television in Ireland, 'in about a year?. Mr. Edmund Gwenn died, at eighty-one, and Miss Kay Kendall died; at thirty-two, of leukaemia. The trustees of Zoar Welsh Baptist Chapel at Ystalyfera, in the Swansea Valley, locked the doors against its minister, who stood on a lawn outside and preached on a text from the Book of Revelations, 'Behold, I stand at the door and knock.'
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