—Portrait of the Week— GENERAL IBRAHIM ABBOUD, the commander-in- chief,
seized power in the Sudan, deposing Mr. Abdullah Khalil, the Prime Minister. This was a pro-Nasser or an anti-Nasser coup, according to which Beaverbrook paper, morning or evening. is the greater authority on Arab affairs, In the next-door country, the Duke and Duchess .of Gloucester paid a ceremonial visit to the Emperor of Ethiopia, and at the other side of the continent, in Ghana, Dr. Nkrumah reshuffled his cabinet, himself taking over the Ministry of the Interior in addition to his premiership and the Ministry of Defence, but • dropping external affairs. Farther south, Sir Roy Welensky's United Federal Party was overwhelmingly successful in the Rhodesian federal general elections, achieving a majority of more than two-thirds of all the members in the newly enlarged Parliament.
MR. KHRUSHCHEV denounced his old fellow- traveller, Mr. Bulganin, as a member of the 'anti- party' group, along with such other former favourites as Mr. Maienkov and Mr. Molotov. The Czechoslovak ambassador in London com- plained to the Foreign Secretary about remarks made to him by Mr. Macmillan at a Swedish Embassy party. In the East German elections, 99.87 per cent. of the electorate cast valid votes and, by a happy coincidence, 99.87 per cent. of them were for the National Front candidates.
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DR. ADENAUER'S GOVERNMENT, in a Note to the Soviet government, said that a four-party com- mission should be set up and enabled to discuss a German peace treaty. M. Soustelle. the French Minister of Information, declared that it was not Possible to create the free trade area 'as wished by the British,' and Mr. Maudling postponed in- definitely the negotiations that were to have begun on Wednesday. The Pope created twenty- three new cardinals, among them the Archbishop of Westminster. The two Geneva conferences. on surprise attacks and on nuclear tests, continued.
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IN CYPRUS. where Grivas's Number Two has been killed, an inquest was held on two Greek Cypriots who died after being detained by British troops. Mr. Mintoff, Dr. Borg Olivier. and Miss Strickland came to London to discuss Malta's constitutional future with the Colonial Secretary— separately, as Mr. Mintoff will not sit down with Miss Strickland. In the British Council's annual report, Sir Charles Snow asked what the Council's pupils are going to read in the English language once they have learned it; postal workers on night duty in New South Wales asked for extra Pay to make up for not being able to watch tele- vision.
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DR. EDITH stmfornskti.t_ regained her scat on the parliamentary committee of the Labour Party, and Mr. George Brown, the shadow Minister of Defence, lost his. Mr. Wigg spied strangers in the course of a Commons debate on the use of motor- cars at elections, and the debate continued for two hours in secret, there being no device by Which the Strangers could be brought back. A strike of 650 workers at the BMC works in Bir- mingham came to an end after four days; at the de Havilland aircraft factory near Chester 'drastic cuts in overtime' put 1,600 men on a 44-hour week. Dame Florence,Horsbrugh announced her intention not to seek re-election to Parliament, and the deaths occurred of Mr. Tyrone Power and Mr. Ronald Squire. A conslstory court held that in the phrase 'Rest in Peace' the word 'rest' was a noun substantive, with a verb subjunctive left to be supplied from the context. This disposed Of the vicar's contention that the mood of the Latin 'Requiescat in Pace' had been changed from the subjunctive to the imperative, making the English phrase unsuitable for a churchyard memorial.
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