Portrait of the Week-
AT GENEVA, the British Foreign Secretary said that he came 'back and back again to verification as the point on which the success or failure of our conference will turn.' Mr. Khrushchev announced in Moscow that the Soviet Union now had an unstoppable 'global rocket' that could strike any- where in the world without warning. The West German Government agreed to spend £54 millions a year in Britain to help us to pay for keepitig British forces in Germany. An agreement for a cease-fire and an ultimately independent Algeria was signed by French and Moslem negotiators, and the war in Algeria came officially to an end: upon which the OAS opened lire with machine guns and mortar bombs in Algiers. Oran and elsetivhei.e. and there were fatal clashes between troops and Moslem deinonstrators. There were frontier skirmishes between the Syrians and the Israelis on the shores of Galilee, and in Argentina the army took over in those districts where sup- porters of the exiled ex-dictator Peron had triumphed in the elections. Mr. Khrushchev wrote to President Kennedy saying that he quite agreed that they should explore outer space together.
A Nt:w MINISTRY—the Central Africa Office—was ordered to be set up, with Mr. Butler in charge. to take over (without relinquishing his other tasks) the job of the Colonial Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office to sort out the Rhodesian constitutional difficulties. Mr. Maud- ling., the Colonial Secretary. still responsible for Kenya, presented his constitutional ideas to a conference that hadn't been able to agree on any of ifs own. A Bill was laid before the South- African Parliament that would substitute for the definition of a white man as a person who in appearance obviously is for who is generally accepted as) a white person. but not a person who, although in appearance obviously a white person.' is generally accepted as a Coloured person. one that defined a white man as a person who in appearance obviously is a white person and who is not generally accepted as a Coloured person. or as a person generally accepted as a white per- son and is not in appearance obviously not a white person. Some experts said that this made it easier to be accepted as white, and some said that it made it harder.
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VICTOR OF ORPINGTON took his seat, and brought the total of Liberal MPs to seven. In the same place, Mr. Michael Foot called the Prime Minister a liar, and a Tory MP, Mr. Hirst, came as near as he decently could to calling on the Prime Minister to resign, because of the failUre of his economic policies. The chairman of the Stock Exchange said that the City was near- ing the end of its tether because its work was 'constantly bedevilled by the Government.' Four local authorities—the LCC, Manchester, Bristol and. Westmorhuid—considered bans on smoking such as the Government hadn't yet got around laa,auggesting.
A NEW COST-OF-LIVING INDEX took account for the first time of roast chicke,n, sherry and nylon underclothes. Directors and employees of Courtaulds went to church in the City to thank the 'Almighty for having stayed the taking-over band of ICI. A motion was tabled in the House of Commons deploring the conduct of Lord Beaverbrook in authorising constant criticism of the Royal family in his Express newspapers, and Prince Philip, at an Embassy reception in Rio de Janeiro, said that the Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper. It is full of lies, scandal and Imagination. It is a vicious paper.' That's what the Expre.vs reporter said he said, anyway.
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