Portrait of the Week
'ACCORDING TO HERACLITGS, everything changes, all the time,' as the Foreign Secretary wrote in Le Monde on Tuesday. Nothing seemed to have changed more than the Government's foreign policy. General de Gaulle's memoranda to his allies on NATO reforms received various interpretations, but none was more forthright in its condemnation than that of the Government of Britain. Mr. Edward Heath, on the other hand, thought the General was right and that NATO was out of date. Also out of date, by common consent, was the structure of the trade unions and the notorious 'noose trial' at Cowley led both parties into something of a competition to see who could denounce the unions the strongest. A statement by BMC shop stewards that the noose had been there for a year and was only a piece of old rope left behind by the builders was accompanied by news that one more of the trial victims had gone into hospital.
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