Portrait of the Week— I " 'NEWS CHRONICLE' and the 'STAR .
died, of L 1,eing swallowed. Mr. Laurence Cadbury said that his chocolate firm was thinking of spending Lim. °n a factory 10 in Germany.
Shad GREENWOOD RESIGNED from the titer that Cabinet, and told Mr. Gaitskell, in a long 'etter, that he would not stand ,for re-election if V% Gaitskell continued as Leader of the Labour AltY• Mr. Gaitskell answered in a very short letter. . anSydney Silverman, in an even longer letter th Mr. Greenwood's, seemed to say—in so far a meaning could be disentangled—that if Mr. ■ ?Gaitskell was re-elected as Leader of the party the unilaterists would form a separate party, though some textual scholars thought that what he nmleanf was an autonomous group within the party. Gaitskell answered Mr. Silverman in a letter Zen shorter than the one he wrote to Mr. Green- c°,.t)d. Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn made ton- al gestures, and managed to discover 'a wide rhrersa of common agreement,' though there were door who thought it not so wide as a church' eirt 'wasn't enough; 'twouldn't serve. Mr. intond fished in the troubled waters for possible es;''-abour supporters for the Liberal Party and ma% he said, 'unashamed' in his appeal. Mr. 0 "titan, on the other hand, in a Pecksniffian fer'ttion at the end of the Conservative Party con- prr.e,ce asked his followers to 'cast away 'party pride or sense of party triumph.' There were no deports from Scarborough of anyone's being dfctled by the clatter of cast-off party pride.
'HC FRENCH GOVERNMENT SECURED only a small :nntritY for its plans for an atomic striking force new model army. e Britih soldiers wre dded and 125 injured Ni inn Armys manoeuvrese in s e„rtnanY. Two Americans were shot by firing a"ad in Cuba for taking up arms against the kiir.irn Government. Three thousand people were Rhes, in a cyclone that swept the Gangcs delta. shpesneslan troops were moved into African town- so,, In Salisbury. Bulawayo and Gwelo, armed 47" rifles and sten guns—'to establish friendship,' bihd the Southern Rhodesian Government—and tytths were introduced to enable the police to arrest ran"nut warrant 'anyone who appears to be vag- ae,t: The former President of Turkey was Afused of selling a dog that the King of aloghanistan had given him, and putting the nheY in his own pocket his defence was that %%ad applied the proceeds to building a water- anarKs, and then turned on his own waterworks,
wePt in the witness-box.
.4)INITy de HALL, CAMBRIDGE, INSTALLED its own laun- eytte for the use of undergraduates. The London fo clerks went back to work on the docks after a Ttitir-week strike that had gained them .nothing. two Motor Show opened in London,. with some sa,,, thousand men in the industry likely to be sCed as redundant, more than forty thousand . on and time. exports to the United States declining, ir; an increase in the duty levied in Canada on 1114torted British cars. Motorists could not get to aned Motor Show by motor because of the motors, ritaninr two days before it opened they were more or 'I, usually hampered in the West End because hi tike. carriage drives of His Majesty Mahendra NitBrkrarn Shah Deva and Her Majesty Ratna. !, 1-aksmi Devi Shah, King and Queen of got who paid us a State visit and, indeed, duly a tot of Londoners in a state.
11191,,,,C(4-114TY SURVEYOR REVEALED that Lancashire's 4b , road-building plan was sixty-seven years -„Ind schedule. and wouldn't be completed, at Present rate of progress, until AD 2146.
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