— Portrait of the Week —
THE NATO COUNCIL MET, and President Eisenhower, Mr. Macmillan and Dr. Adenauer converged on Paris. In the meantime, President Eisenhower had spoken in India of support for her freedom, aid to her economy and the need to fight Communism, a man-made philosophy. He referred to 'your sainted Mahatma Gandhi.' Archbishop Makarios, who, like Mahatma Gandhi, has also in his time incurred British displeasure, was proclaimed President-elect of the Republic of Cyprus, which is to come into being in February. The Turkish Cypriot Vice-President, Dr. Kutchuk, said he would be able to work with the Archbishop.
IN ANOTHER ISLAND that was once under British rule—and is still partitioned, as some British poli- ticians had wanted Cyprus to be—Mr. Butler said that if there were to be British sanctions against the Republic, because of border raids, they ought to be effective; and then said that he hadn't had sanctions in mind. Fifty Communists were arrested in West Germany, and British troops took part in the rescue work when thirty people were killed in a gas explosion in Dortmund. A Private Member's Bill to make offices fit for filing-clerks to work in received its second read- ing, in spite of a Government for which quite a lot of office-workers must have voted, and which was asked by a triumphant Opposition why it didn't start sending boys up chimneys again.
HE FOURTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Of the United Nations came to an end, having failed by a mere five votes to instruct France to grant self- determination to Algeria. Britain voted for France and the United 'States abstained. White Africans killed and wounded black Africans by rifle-fire in South-West Africa. A white couple turned out of South Africa for adopting a foundling said to be 'coloured' arrived in England, to bring up the child 'as a normal human being.' Sir Francis de Guingand, with whom Lord Montgomery stayed on his recent admiring visit to the Union, became chairman of the South African Founda- tion, which is to 'present an unbiased picture of South Africa to the outside world.' English- speaking and Afrikaans-speaking white people are represented, but 'the part which non-whites would play in it is being studied.' In Tanganyika, con- stitutional changes were announced that will pro- vide for an African majority in the Legislature to be elected in September.
LIKE THE Transport and General Workers before them, the Union of Vehicle Builders refused to give information to the TUC committee looking into strikes. Workers in a Jaguar factory walked out, walked back and walked out again. BEA and BOAC pilots agreed to discuss the rates of pay for piloting Comets. Municipal drivers on strike left Clydebank dustbins unemptied for a week.
FIFTY THOUSAND YOUNG MEN were told they would be exempt from call-up for National Service next Year. They were luckier than the young Service men and their wives in Aden, where the Air Com- modore in charge of housing said that he was V fed up with belly-aching Service families, who ought to have stayed in their slums at home. Lord Harewood was appointed artistic director of the Edinburgh Festival. His cousin, the Queen, left Windsor Castle with a shooting party shortly before the Duke of Windsor called at the castle to collect material in the library. By the time she got back he had gone, and she was thus unfortu- nately unable to receive her uncle.
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