--Portrait of the Week
IDEOLOGICAL DISPUTES continued and faction fights flared up: with the revisionists winning a compromise in the battle over Mr. Heath's price-fixing Bill, Mr. Quintin Hogg denounced Mr. Enoch Powell as the 'Mao Tse-tung of the Tory Party,' just as the former Minister was directing his political fire at the enemy instead of at his own party. Mao himself was accused of hypocrisy in his telegram of birthday congratu- lations to Mr. Khrushohev, and Chou En-lai attacked the Soviet leader's 'new fraud' in ad- vocating peace. Mr. Wilson is to visit Moscow in June, presumably to learn some new tricks in the ideological game.
pct AND COURTAULDS exchanged £70 million worth of industry, and decided to fight over a pair of nylons, with ICI developing Nylon 66 whereas Courtaulds will concentrate on Nylon 6. A new pirate radio ship is soon to begin broad- casts, the US may close its OxfSrdshire military bases, and the Beatles were held responsible for a large drop in teenage drunkenness. The Daily Mirror group is to give financial backing to Encounter, Young Tories at Romford were asked to compile a dossier on `two-car families' on housing estates, and a Middlesex woman who wrote for a Norwich guidebook received instead
a copy of Fanny Hi Swedish.
TANGANYIKA AND ZANZIBAR surprised the world by signing a pact of union, with President Nyerere in charge. But this was the only sign of accord in the week; Britain complained to the UN against President Nasser's promise to the Yemen that 'we swear by God to expel Britain from all parts of the Arab world.' France con- tinued a withdrawal of troops from NATO, and Cuba appealed for help against American U-2 flights. Over a hundred demonstrators were arrested at the opening of the New York World's Fair, and Southern Rhodesia was outraged that it was not being invited to the Commonwealth Premiers' Conference as of right: other countries were furious that it should be invited in any circumstances.
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PRESIDENT JOHNSON was denounced as 'unfair to dogs' by the American SPCA, Elizabeth Taylor was sued for £17 million, sixty-three secur- ity risks in Washington have resigned, and Jack Ruby, convicted of the murder of Lee Oswald, tried to commit suicide in prison. No gleam of hope appeared in the Cyprus dispute, with the UN mediator 'pessimistic' about achieving suc- cess. Tony Ambatielos, the Greek political pris- oner, was freed after seventeen years in prison, the BBC revealed that only Bulgaria jams its broadcasts, while the Registrar-General revealed that in the first quarter of 1964 both the birth and death rates were lower.
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A POOR WEEK FOR SOCCER FANS: in Algeria spectators were banned from the rest of the season's league matches in an attempt to curb hooliganism, while more English players were suspended after newspaper allegations of bribery. The National Dairy Centre proudly announced that the FA Cup finalists had promised to drink a toast in milk on Saturday, and meanwhile the Australians visited Worcester to open the 1964 cricket season. The Commons debated the Ferranti affair, Princess Irene married in Rome al last, watched between technical hitches on Dutoh TV by her family, and Guernsey, where there has been no execution for a hundred years, voted to abolish capital punishment.
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