— Portrait of the Week— TUB. COUNT-DOWN to the 1964 election
began with 'meet the party faithful' tours for the party leaders. Sir Alec Douglas-Home skipped through Swansea, while 2,000 Birmingham citizens paid two shillings each for a glimpse of Mr. Wilson, and of the Socialist Utopia. Mr. Grimond' re- mained silent. Mr. Macleod's revelations brought angry letters to The Times and boycott demands from the knights of the shires,. a move that was sheepishly dropped. The public-opinion polls be- came more confusing than ever, offering a selec- tion of Labour leads ranging from 1+ to 101 per cent, while bookmakers seemed no more certain, 'with the present odds Labour at 5-1 on, Tories 3—I against, and the Liberals fell yet a further 12,000 points behind to 5,000-1. TUB. COUNT-DOWN to the 1964 election began with 'meet the party faithful' tours for the party leaders. Sir Alec Douglas-Home skipped through Swansea, while 2,000 Birmingham citizens paid two shillings each for a glimpse of Mr. Wilson, and of the Socialist Utopia. Mr. Grimond' re- mained silent. Mr. Macleod's revelations brought angry letters to The Times and boycott demands from the knights of the shires,. a move that was sheepishly dropped. The public-opinion polls be- came more confusing than ever, offering a selec- tion of Labour leads ranging from 1+ to 101 per cent, while bookmakers seemed no more certain, 'with the present odds Labour at 5-1 on, Tories 3—I against, and the Liberals fell yet a further 12,000 points behind to 5,000-1.
'A WEEK OF REVOLT: 'Field-Marshal' Okello. sup- posedly Cuba-trained, tightened his grip on ..Zanzibar, while the bemused Sultan, plus a ::retinue of sixty, was installed at the St. James's :Court Hotel in London as a guest of the British 1Government. In Tanganyika the First Tangan- :yika Rifles mutinied, followed next day by the 'Second Battalion. President Nyerere disappeared, to emerge after both revolts had died down and condemn them as a 'disgrace in a day of shame.' In Indonesia, the Unilever building in Djakarta was rumouredly taken over by workers: Britain formally complained, and British management was rumouredly restored. The Cyprus talks in London revealed that all sides were 'wide apart,' and Mr. Khrushchev, while agreeing on a sugar pact with his unexpected guest, Dr. Castro, demanded that the US leave Panama.
MR. ROBERT KENNEDY entered the diplomatic field by meeting Dr. Sukarno, and disappointed Britain by meekly requesting the easing of tension on the Borneo and •Malaysia borders. President de Gaulle is to give a press conference on January 31, and the diplomatic recognition of Peking is expected. Dr. Erhard continued his grand tour of State capitals by visiting London and promising his help in squeezing Britain into the Six; the Italian Foreign Minister came to London. The hot line went out of action when a twenty-foot piece of cable was clipped out near Helsinki, and Mr. Khrushchev was condemned by Albania Radio •as the 'sorcerer's apprentice.' President Johnson's name was brought into a Senate inquiry into corruption, while speech-writer Mr. Sorensen, first of the Kennedy corps to quit, resigned.
A GOOD WEEK FOR TRIALS, with the Train Robbery and Fanny Hill cases getting up steam.' Mr. Hogg's fracas with the Young Liberals died down, while his fracas with Sir Edward Boyle over the post of educational overlord continued. Mr. Heath won his trial of strength in selling the British Lion film company, and prepared for a sterner test in abolishing price-fixing. In the trade union world, Liverpool dockers edged nearer a weekly rather than daily contract of employment, and the Port Talbot steel strike continued. The Minister of Labour, Mr. Godber, insisted he was 'anxious' for a settlement, but a TUC effort to solve the dispute failed.
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'A COLUMN ADVERTISEMENT in The Times asked ifor suggestions for celebrating the 900th anni- versary of 1066, and during the Beatles' visit to Paris a police spokesman promised, 'We will protect them like Heads of State.' Taking the US cancer report to heart is a Cambridge shop- keeper who has decided to stop selling cigarettes: he said that he had been worried about selling tobacco since 'coming into the business twenty- Six years ago,' and a Mr. Gohoho took off his trousers in the Court of Appeal.
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