— Portrait oi the Wee KHRLISHCHEV AND DR. CASTRO arrived in
New York for the fifteenth General Assembly of the United Nations, and were pleased to see each other. Among the thirteen brand spanking new African States admitted (along with Cyprus) as members was the Congo Republic: it was left to be decided later which are its lawful governments and who are its lawful UN representatives. The old Assembly voted seventy to none in favour of the Secretary-General's policy in the Congo: along with Mr. Khrushchev's Soviet bloc only Mr. Verwoerd's South Africa and General de (' tilN's France abstained.
"1 ()NG THP. NEWLY INDEPENDENT African States, each now with its own new head of government
and the rimmander-in-chief, the Congo Republic was k ost independent of all, with three heads of
110Y ment and two commanders-in-chief. One of thee gallant and distinguished soldiers, Colonel Mobuto (or Motubu, according to which coluthn of what newspaper one reads), expelled the Soviet vanil. dieCzech diplomatic missions from Leopold-
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T/1n SEAMEN'S STRIKE seemed to be running aground, but a new strike of tally clerks in the London and Tilbury docks stopped work on more than a hundred ships, and a shipwrights' strike on Clydeside looked like putting five thousand men out of work. The Select Committee on Estimates found that the Admiralty was too big, and that it Was uneconomic to house part of it in London an part Part in Bath; and that while the number of suiPs in the Royal Navy had gone down from 376 to 235, and of men to officer and man them from 153.000 to 106,000, the number of head- quarters staff required to administer this dwindling Beet had gone up from 10.151 to 10,179. Exports and home sales of British motor-cars declined. which led to short time in Coventry and Birming- "urn. The new traffic wardens swung into action against illegal porkers, which led to short tempers in the West End of London.
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MIL MICHAEL Fool. was restored to the short list of potential Labour candidates at Ebbw Vale, and Colonel Lort-Phillips was finally confirmed as the Liberal candidate. King Baudoin of the Belgians announced his engagement to Senorita Pabiola de Mora y Aragon, who was born on June 11. 1928, which in the eyes of the gallant old courtiers who sub-edit the news pages or the Times made her twenty-eight years old. Senorita Fabiola de Mort v Aragon used to write fairy stories which nobody would publish, so were printed at her own expense, and which nobody would buy, so were given away to the under- Privileged children of Madrid. They have now been bought—by a curious coincidence, hard on the news of her engagement—by a Madrid news- Paper. which William Hickey, the gossip columnist of the Daily Express. considered 'an interesting insight into the character and background of rabiola: but which others thought might throw some light on the literary judgment of the feature editors of popular newspapers. The People, a British Sunday newspaper, announced that 'more M sorrow than in anger. Butler Ofillin has felt impelled to speak,' and that it was privileged to Convey his pronouncements to an eagerly waiting World. Mr. Cronin, in passing on a conversation he overheard between Princess Margaret and her bridegroom on their return from their honey- 1'..Inon. condescended to observe that he thought Princess Margaret's share in it 'a superb display 01 royal tact and good taste.' Many readers felt have it must be a comfort to Princess Margaret to nave earned the commendation of so rigorous a
judge.
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