Portrait of the Week--
A WEEK OF INVITATIONS, some pressing, sotne pressed for, ceremonial and State visits. With the hotting-up of the American mid-term election Campaign, the world has necessarily been given the appearance of being on the move again. The 87th Congress struggled hard to find a quorum and finally dissolved itself; President Kennedy set oil to cover 19,000 miles in three weeks and ex- President Eisenhower showed unaccustomed zeal in attacking a regime of 'callow youth' and `Young fathers.' Mr. Khrushchev meanwhile courteously volunteered to hang fire over Berlin until the elections are settled, which was inter- preted by some as 'deadline November 7,' but the new US ambassador to Russia, Mr. Fay Kohler, proceeded with his first interview with the Russian leader, resulting in a sudden meeting between President Kennedy and Mr. Gromyko. In America at the moment is the German Foreign Minister, Herr Schroeder. With the jealous power of veto, the German Chancellor himself is to follow. But the words of Herr Ulbricht and Mr. Gomulka on his State visit to East Germany Were far from new. Amid the playing of Prussian military marches Herr Ulbricht spoke again of the urgent need for a separate German peace treaty, and Mr. Gomulka seemed all in agree- ment- 'We have common friends and common foes,' he said. At home, Mr. Macmillan addressed the Conservative Party Conference in much the same words, then spoke enthusiastically in favour of change.
ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD there was action as well as words. Mr. Krishna Menon said that India would fight, to the last man, to the last gun, to push the advancing Chinese back beyond the MacMahon Line, and Peking dropped the fiction of referring to her forces as 'frontier guards' and spoke menacingly of army troops. Trouble, too, On India's border with East Pakistan where shots Were also exchanged, and with British and American publishers who printed the North East Frontier Agency as part of China. While India has her thousands, Yemen at least has her hun- dreds—six to be precise—marching into her terri- en, from two separate fronts. In a press confer- ence, however, the leader of the revolutionary government, Brigadier Sallal, refreshingly ,e.s, e escaped the cliches, dropping, Khrushchev-like, ,Lrl old Yemeni proverb, `If your cousin cuts your "air, wet your beard.' The regime, which still awaits British and American recognition, ainrr British
to develop an alternative port to Aden.
ter peace in the Congo, where a cease-fire was signed with Katanga at the moment of the hand- ing over of the new federal constitution. Mr. Ben Belts paid a one-day visit from New York to '.1clel Castro and invited him to Algeria. In Bel- Pont several were hurt when thousands of Flem- ings marched through the streets of Brussels in protest against the passing of the new languages „BM; on the breakdown of the taxation talks, Prance proceeded to ring Monaco with customs officials and the Council of National Resistance declared the suspension of its efforts for the physical suppression' of General de Gaulle until after the referendum.
IIRITisH R * EPRESENTATIVE on the Trusteeship Coun- cil of the UN, Sir Hugh Foot, the editor of the hew York Herald Tribune and the manager of Posts, Bournemouth Pavilion all resigned their c7sts, and Mr. A. I. P. Taylor announced that lec;r rd University would not be renewing his uoureship. But a new post came to Mr. Selwyn vYd who is to conduct a survey of the Con- servative ative Party organisation, to Mr. Nigel Aber- ofThis who is to be the new secretary-general to the Arts Council, nine months' imprisonment owr. Cohn Jordan, and engagement to Lord a "'ton. The Queen received the King, of Nor- ten Edinburgh and created him a Knight of der of the Thistle, an honour she also ex- `tied to Lord Home.
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