Portrait of the week President de Gaulle was in Canada,
singing the Marseillaise wherever he went and calling for-a free Quebec until publicly rebuked by Mr Lester
Pearson, whereupon the President cut short his visit and hastily left for home. The Pope went to Turkey, in the wake of furious earthquakes, kiSsed the Patriarch Athcnagoras and paid his respects at Ephesus where the Virgin Mary is thought to have spent her later years.
Meanwhile for several days the city of Detroit was sacked, burnt and looted by roaming white and
negro mobs in the worst riots ever known in America. The police were under siege and 4,700 airborne troops were sent by President Johnson to
crush the riots, at the request of Governor Romney.
Damage was estimated at nearly 200 million dollars. Mr Duncan Sandys called for an instant ban on all coloured immigrants to Britain, and those already
-bete to be encouraged to go home. Mini-skirts were banned in the Congo and hard bargaining con-
tinued over the person of Mr Tshombe, following the decision of the Algerian Supreme Court to deliver him over to the Mobutu government.
France, Britain and West Germany agreed to build an airbus together, and Mr Wilson declared without much conviction that it was time to try
again to do something with Rhodesia. Mr Gordon Walker announced an increase in family allowances
but put up the price of school meals, and Miss Margaret Herbison resigned as Minister of Social Security, to be replaced by Mrs Judith Hart. Sweet shares slumped after a decision not to impose resale price maintenance on sweets. There was a strike in Aden with sniping, throwing of grenades " and accusations against British soldiers of thuggery towards the civilian population. The Arab states fixed a day for a meeting of foreign ministers in Cairo, to plot a fresh downfall for Israel.
Carl Sandberg died and, in South Africa, white mourners were allowed to mix with black at the funeral of Albert Luthuli. In Peking, Reuter's correspondent was under house arrest and vari- ous others, including The Timees representative, were beaten. up by Red Guards. The Proms opened in London, the weather continued hot and there was a cod glut in Grimsby, where Danish trawlers were turned away still laden: 'A slap in the face to a fellow rrra country,' said a sorrowful Dane.
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