Portrait of the Week
IN Moscow, the American, Powers, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for spying on the kussians, and in Nairobi the white man, Poole. Was hanged for the murder of a black man.
The MALI FEDERATION of Senegal and the Sudan Republic broke up and there was trouble among the Mali troops in the United Nations forces in Katanga: Irish troops took over. The Security Council gave Mr. Hammarskjtild a vote of con- fidence for his handling of Congolese affairs (the Soviet Union withdrew a counter-proposal that Awas doomed to defeat) and so, less expectedly, Mr. Lumumba. The Algerian rebel 'govern- "'ear asked for a referendum of the Algerian people on self-determination, to be conducted by the United Nations. The World Bank and the British and United States Governments promised a £30 m. loan to Ghana for the Volta River dam.
Two RUSSIAN DOGS, Belka and Strelka, and a mtraber of anonymous mice and flies, came back alive from a flight in outer space, the first living beings to do so. Mr. Molotov came back from Outer Mongolia—the first living being to do so and become Soviet Representative on the Inter- n, ational Atomic Agency in Vienna. Three people 1,11 Madrid who were watching the United States balloon satellite 'Echo' glide across the firma- ment were glided into by an earthbound motor- scooter. The Soviet Union expelled still more American students for taking photographs in Moscow and the US Army detained Russian Officers for photographing in Stuttgart. President Eisenhower asked Congress to let him imposc economic sanctions on the Dominican Republic, ,because of 'the flagrant violation of human rights °Y the Trujillo regime,' and most experts prophe- sied a breaking-off of diplomatic relations. This did nothing to mollify Dr. Castro's feelings to- wards both parties, and he announced that Cuba was 'armed to the teeth' to resist the 'Yankee Mercenaries.'
* PATRICK NEARY, chairman of the National Sea- ,..en's Reform NI ovenient, was committed to
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xcept in Southampton, where it seemed to be '47-ling out, the unofficial strike went on, notably m London, Glasgow, Liverpool and Hull, with sYmPa`thetic token outbreaks overseas, in Canada and New Zealand. There was a smaller but much. publicised strike of Automobile Association clerks in Birmingham. The Pressed Steel Com- pany abandoned its plan to establish a factory In Jarrow, still a relatively depressed area. In London another kind of distress' was caused by the Operations of the Rent Act, about which by were made to Mr. Henry Brooke °Y local councils. tenants' associations and Labour and Tory Members or Parliament.
°EA MADE A RECORD PROFIT of more than £2 m., the sort of success which seemed likely to go on eluding British Railways especially as they sent some hundreds and thousands of pound notes by mistake to a Whitechapel dealer in place of 400 pairs of boots and 134 duffle coats. Tilieves gagged and bound the guard on the BnFton Pullman and rifled the mailbags; family doctors 813t a promise from the Ministry of Health of More money (but not of the proposed 'merit' awards) without having to gag or bind any civil servants to speak of. A summons under the Obscene Publications Act was issued against penguin Books in respect of Lady Chatterley's Lover and heard at Bow Street. In Accra, a bill Was passed to impose newspaper censorship; in London. the TUC decided to free the Daily i Jerald from its obligation to support TUC and Labour Party policies.
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