Portrait of the Week— LIEU I LNAN I -COMMANDER MALCOLM
SCOTT CARPEN- TER. the second American to go round the earth through space, confessed to having experienced 'a few moments of anxiety.' Mr. Khrushchev praised him for his 'very great courage,' and said that he was glad he had survived. The United States de- cision to carry out high-altitude nuclear tests was described by Sir Bernard Lovell of Jodrell Bank as 'a black moment for humanity and an affront to the civilised world.'
1HE NEW YORK slut N EXCHANGE had its sharpest tall since the great Wall Street crash of 1929, and the London Stock Exchange its worst slump since Munich : there were gloomy reports from Toronto Tokyo, Zurich, Frankfurt, Amster- dam, Milan and Paris, and although things bucked up a bit, experts said that they might well get worse before they got better—share prices all over the world had been pushed beyond their real value. The East German Government asked for a West German loan and the West German Government seemed inclined to lend at least an ear. The British and the Common Mar- ket governments came to a compromise agreement over small concessions to the Commonwealth in the matter of manufactured goods, but they didn't extend to agricultural produce, and didn't allay New Zealand's anxieties. Mr. Khrushchev attributed political motives to the Common Mar- ket, and said it wouldn't come to mucti.
Al GENEVA the Soviet Union reversed its decision to join with the United States in sponsoring a ban on war propaganda. and in Moscow it found six proposed West German ambassadors un- acceptable. Shots were fired between East and West Berlin police as East Berliners continued to try to escape into the West. Eichmann's' appeal against his conviction and death sentence was dismissed by the Israeli Supreme Court, and he then submitted a plea for clemency. The French Government abolished by decree the Supreme Military Court that had found extenuating circumstances for ex-General Salan and sentenced him to life imprisonment, whereas ex-General Jouhaud had been condemned to death. But it was decided not to re-try Salan, and Jouhaud
demanded a new trial, General Franco blamed the Spanish miners' strikes on the Communists, the Liberals, the Basque separatists, foreign propagandists and 'lay organisations of the Church,' The general, who is sixty-nine, prepared to form a new Cabinet, and said,' I feel young.'
FIFTY-FIVE ELECTRICIANS went back to work at the BMC factory in Birmingham, after a strike that threw 21,000 men out of work and cost the firm 30,000 vehicles and f15 million in orders. Ford workers voted 'against a shop stewards' unofficial token strike, but called for official strike action in support of their wage claims. Six of the refugees from Tristan da Cunha showed how anglicised they had become by joining in the strike at the Esso refinery at Fawley, saying, 'We never had strikes back home:we don't understand what it's all about.' Pictures worth about £?0,000 were stolen from a West End dealer's: they included a Renoir, a Matisse, a number by Degas and two Picassos. Coventry Cathedral was consecrated, and nobody has yet (at the time of writing) made away with the Graham Sutherland tapestry. Because of the cold weather and the late blossom- ing a holiday camp at Filey stuck red, yellow and white plastic blooms on the ornamental trees, to cheer up the early holidaymakers : it promised to put them back in store when the real blossom came.
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