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1960,' Kennedy was warned when the Chinese 'by unconventional means' brought down an American spyplane in Formosan clothing. To aggravate the rheum at the top of the Pentagon, Russia claimed their spies

gained most informatioa from glib US Army officials. Meanwhile Mr Khrushchev sent Mr.

Kennedy five crates of red wine—and a stiff note pronouncing a Monroe doctrine in reverse to- wards Cuba, while putting Berlin in the cupboard till the President had fought his younger brother's election campaign. Plenty of campaigning in London, where the Commonwealth Prime Mini-

sters met to discuss Britain's terms with the Six. Though Mr. Macmillan carefully edged his pub- lie image from Supermac to Supermarket, the Other leaders were more inclined to go trampling ever the Heath. Mr. (3aitskell and the TUC officially pronounced that they still didn't know, but would tell us if they ever found out. President de Gaulle swept through Germany as if canvas- smg to follow Dr. Adenauer as Chancellor, and many feared that his call for 'organic unity' be- tween the French and German armies was a request to Germany to walk a little faster into Pulitical union—before Britain entered the Six. This sparked off anger among the Benelux countries, who murmured that this would only be done over their Seal bodies.

A PROMINENT ABSENTEE trom the London talks was President Nkrumah of Ghana, whose repre- sentative, Mr. Goka, told the conference that Nkrumah considered Ghana 'no part of Western Europe.' The President survived yet another bomb assassination attempt (made during the celebra- tions of his survival of the last one), and was con-

firmed in office for life though to many Ghanaians this seemed superfluous. Abroad, tem- pers cooled considerably. Egypt no longer spoke If wrecking the Arab League by abandoning it. Election day was announced in Algeria for the fifth time of asking, though Ben Bella's firm con- trol of power made polling more likely this time. Jomo Kenyatta was conciliatory and pleaded for Kenyan restraint. Four Nagas coming to Britain to plead their case endured uncomfortable moments When asked to prove they were born British sub- jects. One remembered the British outlawed the wearing cf shorts; another remembered a Royal visit. The Home Office was satisfied. But Dr. Soblen, whom the Home Office would riot allow to stay, died in hospital, ar.d this unfunny, unwel-

come and unwanted Whitehall farce ended its seventy-two-day run. The Leonardo cartoon anneal grinds to a halt this week : when the Gov- ernment gave £.350,000 a month ago, the appeal was still L50,000 short. Less than half has been raised, but provincial galleries are expected to

ken an Academy in distress.

THEATRES WERE IN THE NEWS: Charles Clore is

Moving into show business in partnership with EMI at the Princes Theatre. First production:

"Ow to Succeed in Business without Really Try- 1g- Miss Agatha .Christie's thriller, Ten Lithe 'v'tigers, opened in London. In America the same Play ran successfully with She title Ten Little fndians. But then we British.have always believed In calling a Spade a Spade. Robert Frost visited ,Mr Khrushchev and thought him a 'ruffian,' but

!„"er became discrectcr about Nikita. Vice- President Lyndon Johnson found the Pope 'most

afrable'; and Mr. Truman, intent as ever on th rowing

bricks as well as dropping them, still

ccnsiders Ike 'the laziest President in American 7h sto

Meanwhile at home nurses were given a Per sent. pay rise, and the railwaymen talked of asking for exactly the same But the railways

feao do nothing richt. A six-mile length of track ern Leith to Edinburgh, closed down by heechiog, has been totally weeded and over- aliled—to carry one train, that of King Olav fc'rt his State visit. And a super-fast diesel service .°n1 Wolverhampton tp Paddington got off to good start—the very first train was twenty Minutes late.