—Portrait of the Week— THE QUEEN was delivered of a
7 lb. 3 oz. boy, and the press of some hundredweight of syco- phantic slush. But there was mourning as well as Jubilation in the Royal Family, because of the deaths of Lady Mountbatten, Prince Philip's aunt, and Lord Carisbrooke, the Queen's cousin. The Crown Princess of Japan had a baby, too, but not as big as ours.
AN ICELANDIC GUNBOAT fired on a British trawler; a bomb went off in Cyprus; two went off in Madrid; there was an earthquake in Algeria; and an American aircraft blew up over Cuba. The West German Government tentatively asked for the right to establish military bases on Spanish soil, and NATO was rather untentatively cross at not having been consulted first. A White Paper or, .Defence promised us a mobile rocket as our main deterrent; a warning station in a national Park is going to give us every second of four minutes' warning of a ballistic missile attack; the Army's estimates went up as its numbers went clown; and both sides.of the House said that Par- liament voted too much money, too often, too recklessly. All the same, a Royal Commission on D°ctors' and Dentists' Remuneration recom- mended an increase in pay for most doctors (and ri.o dentists), and the Civil Estimates held out little likelihood of any tax reductions in the next Budget.
FORDS FLLL our with the Board of Trade over their plan to set up a £25 million plant on Mersey- side. and 3,500 workers on Morrises and Austins Were laid off as the result of a strike over a shop Steward. Mr. John Freeman laid into Mr. Frank Foulkes, the Communist president of the ETU. in an. interview on Panorama. but failed to provoke sur-
prisingly, o suing anybody : Mr. Foulkes. not said that he didn't want his character
spreading 'all over the papers.' The TUC invited leaders of the ETU to come and talk to them. and the leaders of the ETU, thumbs to noses. prepared to do so. Five breweries merged into two big groups with £60 million worth of assets be- tween them and, presumably, quite a lot of beer. An ex-sergeant offered iJ million for Whitehall Court, one of the biggest, most comfortable— and ugliest—blocks of flats in London.
IIE KENYA CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE came to a more satisfactory end than had been hoped for When it opened, five weeks ago, largely owing to the diplomatic skill of Mr. Macleod, the Colonial Secretary. His under-secretary, Mr. Julian Amery, arrived in Cyprus to go on arguing about how iThrY square miles are going to be granted to Britain for her sovereign bases on the island. At the inquiry at Blantyre into the incidents that occurred there during Mr. Macmillan's visit, well-dressed European women' in the gallery. according to The Times, burst into laughter when 4 .British journalist said that what he saw sickened lum, so that he had to turn away.
slk OLIVER FRANKS agreed to his nomination going forward for the Chancellorship of Oxford Uni- versity. in opposition to Mr. Macmillan. thus ensuring a contested election. Meanwhile. Con- grFgation decided that young mathematicians and scientists coming up to Oxford need no long offer !Latin. In Wolverhampton, a pre-Raphaelite paint- ing on loan from the Tate was pinched from the art gallery, At Burlington House, a Virgin and Child long thought to be a Verrocchio was found !O be more probably a Leonardo. At a hunt ball in the Worcester Guildhall. members of the Croome Hunt, engaged in a bread-roll battle, damaged a portrait of a Mayor of the 1880s. The hunt secretary said that the ladies and gentlemen
ere aiming at each other, not at the portrait : I wasn't as if we had anything against the old hoy.'
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