-Portrait of the Week
THE SCILLY SEASON again for Britain's Prime Minister, and a fretful time for the Govern- ment: oil 'pirates' threatened to refuel Rhodesia, Africans anxious to prod Mr Wilson staged a mocking comedy at the United Nations, the Royal Navy was given permission to intercept tankers, and the outlook in southern Africa grew appreciably darker— although Mr Ian Smith, at least, found the situation 'a bit of a joke.' At home, the great Christian festival of Easter coincided with the customary carnage on the roads (at least a hundred people were killed) plus huge traffic queues to harass the survivors (one jam on the MI was nearly twenty miles long). Evelyn Waugh died on Easter Day, aged sixty-two. Some unidentified citizens attempted to wreck the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in his old constituency of Woodford, a few days after a new Churchill statue had been unveiled in Washington; the annual Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament march to Trafalgar Square was held, among those present being approving Labour MPs and disapproving anarchists; and the American magazine Time, in a thirteen- page feature on 'London, the swinging city",,' noted that 'in a• once-sedate world of faded splendour, everything new, uninhibited and kinky is blooming at the top of London life.'
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