Portrait of the Week— THE NEW PARLIAMENT reassembled and, the
Government having refused to consider any Labour candidate other than Sir Frank, and Sir Frank having declined, elected as its new Speaker Sir Harry. Mr. Douglas Jay began the agonisingly boring reappraisal of Labour Party policy; Mr. James Griffiths said that he would not stand again for election as deputy leader, and Mr. Bevan showed no reluctance to take his place. The Treasury said that the restrictions on taking holiday money abroad would be abolished as from November 1. The same date, it was announced by the British Transport Commission, would see fares going up on British Railways, and London's Underground and bus services. The Motor Show opened in London, thus making London more difficult than ever to drive a motor-car into,
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MR. SELWYN LLOYD said that he would visit Paris, Dr. Adenauer said that he would visit London, and the Dean of Canterbury took off for Moscow and Peking. The Paris police took to scooping up Right-wing organisations for a change, alleging a terrorist plot to put Bidault in power and tighten the grip on Algeria. Kenya police buckled on their revolvers for the first time since the Mau Mau crisis, read the Riot Act, and wielded their batons in Nairobi, where Africans demonstrated —amicably enough—against the continued restric- tions on Jomo Kenyatta. The Soviet Union expelled an official of the United States Embassy in Moscow alleging espionage, and the State Department alleged a frame-up. Chinese troops withdrew from a disputed outpost on the Indo- Tibetan border, and the United Nations General Assembly debated the rights and freedoms of the Tibetan people. Cuba asked Britain for jet fighters, and Washington objected; the United Arab Repub- lic asked Britain for ammunition for the British eighteen-pounders used by the Egyptian Army, and the Suez Group didn't say a word.
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MR. WIJEYANANDA DAHANAYAKE, Prime Minister of Ceylon, sacked Vimala Vijewardena, his woman Minister of Housing, because of her association with Mapitigama Baddharakitta Thero, a Buddhist monk said to be implicated with Talduwe Somarama Thero and Galagedera Pagnasekera Thero in the murder of Solomon Bandaranaike, and Mr. Macmillan apologised for a BBC broad- cast that had described Mr. Dahanayake as an in- experienced eccentric.
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THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL gave its reasons for dismissing the appeal in the Podola case, and Podola's adviser asked for leave to go to the House of Lords. The Vatican newspaper, the Osservatore Romano, said that for California to execute Caryl Chessman, after eleven years in jail, would amount to 'a supreme injustice.' A com- mittee of churchmen, called by the Archbishop of Canterbury, recommended that the sin of suicide should no longer be a crime. Sir Winston Churchill planted an oak and a mulberry tree to inaugurate Churchill College. Cambridge, and at Oxford Congregation gave the women's colleges equal status with the men's. An American woman gave birth to quintuplets, all of whom died. A Welsh cow gave birth to the first twin calves con- ceived as the result of artificial insemination. A prize-winning Ayrshire bull was sentenced to death by the Ministry of Agriculture for looking like a cow.
SCHWEPPES, who make soft drinks, having bought Chivers, who make jam, bought Hartleys, who make more jam. Miss Althea Gibson, the former Wimbledon lawn-tennis champion, turned pro- fessional for 100,000, dollars. For an undisclosed amount, the British featherweight champion was knocked down five times in less than three minutes by the world champion, an American.
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