Portrait of the Week
THERE WAS intermittent spring sunshine, at last; it was National Nature Week, moreover, with cuckoos and swallows celebrating the observance across the land; even the first-class cricket season opened: no wonder, then, that something stirred within Britain's burgeoning Government, turning Mr George Brown's fancy lightly towards Europe, and sending Mr Michael Stewart's thoughts winging airily after. At least, a flirtation with those con- tinentals was more agreeable to contemplate than the inexorable approach of Mr Calla- ghan's Budget next Tuesday, preceded as it was by a crop of dire predictions. In the City of London, they pondered the implications of the decision by Lord Cromer, the Governor of the Bank of England, that the time had come for him to make way for an older man —the onetime 'humble clerk' Mr Leslie O'Brien, whose signature had made millions of pound notes genuine; and the news that the business of making 'commemorative' gold medallions had been stamped out in the cause of protecting the nation's reserves.
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