— Portrait of the Week HAVING DESCENDED from the Summit to
the milder airs of East Berlin, Mr. Khrushchev put off the Berlin problem and the conclusion of a German Peace treaty for six or eight months—pending a resumed Summit conference that he still seems to think might attract an American president to sit down at table with him. In his report on the Paris failure, Mr. Macmillan told the House of Commons that 'it is not easy to assess the exact significance of these events,' but a Gallup Poll showed a figure of 79 per cent. in his favour as Prime Minister—the highest ever recorded of a Peace-time premier since the polls began. Mr. Caltskell, too, came in for some of the success that in this country comes of failure: he won the support both of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers and of the Parliamentary Labour Party for his defence policy. In Washing- ton, where the natives are less imbued with the spirit of Balaclava, Gallipoli and Dunkirk, the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee voted to hold d full and bipartisan inquiry' into the U2 incident and the events leading to the flop at the Summit. The Soviet Union asked the Security Council to condemn the incursion of United States air- craft into the air space of 'other States,' and Moscow Radio replaced a programme of Amen- ''in, English and French folk songs, scheduled for the closing stages of a successful Summit con- f,erence, with folk songs from China, Rumania, I ()land, Russia and that other peace-loving People's democracy, Spain.
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MARTIAL LAW was tightened up in Turkey, and In the United Arab Republic a presidential decree enforced government control of the press. I-Lrthquakes hit Chile, killing well over a thou- skint, people and setting off tidal waves that leached New Zealand, Australia and the Japanese crust, where many more were killed and many thousands rendered homeless. Six people were killed and twenty. injured when a footbridge col- ?"Psed on the motor-racing circuit at Aix-les- Israeli security forces found and detained Arlolf Eichmann, former head of the Jewish \termination Department of the Gestapo. 6chmann, who is to be tried in Israel, is alleged 1° be responsible for the murder of six million
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'ews, a record which led to his being described in the Tittzes as a 'Jew-baiter.'
* MISS HANNAH STANTON, the Anglican missionary who had been detained and deported by the South African Government without charge, "rrived in London, and spoke of women in gaol 'with her who had been arrested with their hus- bands in the middle of the night, leaving thirty- three children parentless. The South African Government published regulations under which "ile and non-white blood tp he used in trans- iusions will be carefully segregated.
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MINISTER OF HOUSING and Local Government refused permission for the proposed development .1 the Monico site at Piccadilly Circus; the Ilorne Secretary introduced a Bill that would im- pose a levy on bookies for the benefit of horses; :,ind Miss Bridget d'OYIY Carte announced the 'ormation of a trust to take over her rights in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The Building Societies' Association recommended to its mem- bers a rise in interest rates on mortgages from , 2. to 6 per cent.; Sir John Barbirolli threatened !° resign from the Halle Orchestra unless there is an inquiry into the system of grants for orchestras and a ratepayer sued the Hampstead borough Council for the return of 2s. 2d. shown on his demand as being 'for civil defence' on the grounds that the Hampstead Borough Council wasn't able civilly to defend him.
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