—Portrait of the Week-
vviirsunrriDE CAME and Whitsuntide went. Many people spent a great part of it sitting in stationary motor-cars. The Bank Holiday was not observed at Geneva, but progress wasn't much more spec- tacular there than it was on the Brighton road. BEA began its first regular flight from London to Moscow, which takes seven hours; Aeroflot began its first regular flight from Moscow to London; which takes four and a half.
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THOSE CELEBRATED. TABLE-TALKERS of Geneva continued to interchange formulas in the shadow of the summit. Some Americans were worried about the supposed intention of the British to confuse Geneva with Munich. Some British and Americans were disturbed by the supposed inten- tion of the French to confuse Geneva with Dienbienphu. Mr. Khrushchev cheerfully an- nounced that all might still be well if everyone worked hard enough.
IN CAPE TOWN the Minister. of Bantu Development moved the second reading of the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Bill, which will abolish the representation of Africans in the South African Parliament, and the Government decided to spend a million pounds on armoured cars for the (white) South African police. The Kenya Government announced that more than a hundred Africans had been on hunger strike at Hole Camp. Dependents of the eleven who died there from unattributable violence in March are to receive ex gratin compensation, In Notting Hill a young West Indian was stabbed to death, and Mr. Peter Fryer suggested that his Trotskyists should form strong-arm squads to 'protect' the coloured resi- dents of Notting Hill from violence. The Blackpool magistrates' court heard summonses brought by members of 'the 'League of Empire Loyalists against the Conservative agent for Ormskirk and an attendant at the Winter Gardens for alleged assault; one summons was dismissed, and the hearing was adjourned.
* BOARD OF TRADE OFFICIALS said in Moscow that the Anglo-Russian trade talks were going very slowly and it seemed that there were difficulties over long-term tick. But it looked as though the Soviet airline Aeroflot would buy Decca naviga- tional equipment, and some American airlines ordered Canadian aircraft and £41 million worth of Derby-built Rolls-Royce engines to go with them. The British Transport Commission placed orders for £11 million worth of main-line diesel locomotives, and the National Union of Railway- men revealed that if progress continues on the railways it will soon not be possible to travel from Oxford to Cambridge via Bletchley.
* RADIO SIGNALS transmitted from Jodrell Bank bounced off the moon and were picked up by radio receivers at the USAF research centre in Massachusetts. The Chinese Communists renewed their shelling of Matsu Island and killed three Nationalist soldiers with 444 shells. Israeli fighters forced down a Lebanese aircraft carrying Yugoslav and Indian soldiers of the United Nations Emer- gency Force. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands was criticised by the Dutch press for receiving a Cali- fornian who claimed to have flown around the moon and met visitors from the planet Venus; and tension was reported from Brussels between the Belgian Government and the past, present and Possible future kings of the Belgians.
* ENGLAND WERE BEATEN 4- by Peru at association football. and Great Britain were beaten 9-3 by the United States at golf.
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