Portrait of the Week— MR. KHRUSHCHEV AND MR. EISENHOWER agreed
on an early meeting at the summit, and that Berlin talks should be reopened, subject to the approval of other parties concerned. British consultations with Washington opened immediately. Mr. Eisenhower praised Mr. Khrushchev's `extra- ordinary personality' and Mr. Khrushchev, im- porting into the Russian vocabulary 'the good short American word "okay,"' made it clear in Moscow that he liked Ike. He then went on to Peking, where they had just been swearing to liberate Formosa from some other friends of the Americans, and told the Communist countries to drop the idea of force.
NOMINATIONS for the general election closed. Mr. Macmillan and Mr. Gaitskell stumped the country, the one claiming that if he hadn't gone to Moscow there wouldn't be a summit meeting to look forward to, and the other saying that the sooner the summit the quicker, and that he wouldn't put up income tax. The Prime Minister of Ceylon, Mr. Bandaranaike, was shot down by a Buddhist monk, and himself displayed the Buddhist virtues by calling with his dying breath for clemency towards his assassin. The Board of Trade appointed a QC to look into the affairs of H. Jasper & Co. Ltd.; the Labour Party promised an inquiry into takeover bids if it got into office; the Conservatives promised legislation on building societies; and Mr. Noel Cow said, `I may be an old fool, but I'm not dishonest.' An unofficial strike of oxygen workers looked like throwing many workers in the motor-car industry out of a job, and doing as much electoral damage to Labour as the City goings-on were held to have done to the Tories.
THE UNITED NATIONS sub-committee in Laos learned that the Government forces on the frontier had lost three men and killed six. The 'provisional Government of the Algerian Republic' replied coolly to General de Gaulle's proposals, and ten- sion rose in Algeria. A typhoon swept the length of Japan, killing something like a couple of thou- sand people and rendering perhaps a million homeless. It was one of the worst in Japanese his- tory, and they called it 'Vera.' A 140 m.p.h. hurri- cane raged along the American coast from Georgia to South Carolina, and what they called it isn't recorded. East Germany played' West Germany at soccer in secret; the only spectators were sixty newspapermen under sealed orders; the game was televised, but viewers weren't told where the match took place, West Germany won, and will represent 'All-Germany' in the Olympic Games. Donald Brian Hume, a former prisoner in Dartmoor, Was found guilty of murder by a Swiss court, where the public prosecutor said that the British should have put him to honest work. A South African court sentenced a young British naval rating to be whipped for having intercourse with a coloured woman, but .sentence was sus- pended on medical grounds. Princess Alexandra left by car for Kanchanaburi after having seen a performance of Siamese classical dancing in the company of King Phumipol Aduldej, Queen Sirikit and Mr. Sarit Thanarat—the gayest evening in Bangkok for some time.
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SIR MATTHEW SMITH DIED. Mr. Stirling MOM. who drives racing motor-cars, took to an Austin Seven, and found himself in a collision, The National Union of Journalists 'disciplined' thirty-one of its members who helped to bring out the Derby Evening Telegraph during the recent dispute, against orders. The nationalised electricity industry showed a record surplus of £27 million, but didn't think it could bring prices down.
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