— Portrait of the Week— AT EASTBOURNE, the Liberal Assembly declared
Itself firmly against unilateral nuclear disarma- ment. At Scarborough, the Labour Party Con- ference declared itself shakily for it.
MR. KHRUSHCHEV ssto that Mr. HammarskjOld Ought to have the courage to resign from the secretary-generalship of the United Nations: Mr. Hammarskjiild pointed out that it was easy to resign at the bidding of a great power, and that what he needed to find courage for was to stay no. Later, Mr. Macmillan and Mr. Khrushchev ntet privately for what the former described as a long and useful' and the latter a 'very produc- tlye discussion of disarmament. Meanwhile, the Merman Federal Government got tough with East Germany, breaking off its trade agreement and making a new one conditional on the restora- tion of normal communications in Berlin.
WHILE THE LABOUR PARTY MET on the Yorkshire coast, and the Liberals in Sussex by the sea, the convulsions of nature suffered by seaside resorts in the West of England and the Isle of Wight were floods: Cornwall was cut off from England (or, according to Cornishmen, England from Cornwall); Exeter was surrounded by flood-water; ;tild at Cowes and Newport the damage was 'the, Worst in memory.' In the central massif of France 'foods drowned sonic and rendered many home- less.
NIGERIA 1tECAMti INDEPLNDENT. Algeria went on fighting for independence. In independent Congo epidemics broke out, murders were committed. and a curfew was imposed. Two million South Africans were invited to say whether they wanted the Dominion to become a republic; ten million other South Africans were not consulted. Inde- pendent Cyprus sent as its representative to London an EOKA Cypriot who had been on the run from the British; it was understood that the British offer of £1,000 for his capture was now withdrawn. Cypriots who had,collaborated with the British were shot dead in the streets of iL 0,1Plassol. In Paris, heavy sentences were passed 7," twenty-odd young French people and Alger- ians charged with helping the Algerian rebels; Some signatories to the declaration on the right not to fight against the Algerians were charged with incitement to desertion, and some were debarred from radio and television. There were Right-wing demonstrations against papers and people
regarded as pro-Algerian and anti-war. In and of a new coalition government under Prince
Prince Phouma, Prince Souphanou Vong and Prince Boun Oum.
SIR BRIAN ROBERTSON AGREED to meet leaders of the railway unions in an attempt to avert the national railway strike called for October 17. A Fontinuing strike of tallymen caused congestion in London docks, and there seemed to be danger of a London bus strike. Eighty thousand hosiery nisierkers asked for shorter hours, but made no offr of longet hose. A lathe-operator at the 13.aneaster works of International'Harvesters had his
Pay docked for washing his face as well as
his hands during the break for washing: nett morning the management locked the lavatory _est the corruption should -spread. Members of the Bridlington Chamber of Trade objected to `n, e derogitory term 'shop assistant,' and asked to be called 'counter public relations officers' in- stead, the term' public relations officer' not, aPParentlY, being regarded in Bridlington as nrogatary.
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