—Portrait of the Week— THE NATO MINISTERIAL MEETING opened in
Athens. The British and United States Defence Ministers had already conferred in London, and the United States Government said that the Athens meeting wasn't expected to reach a decision about inde- pendent nuclear weapons for NATO, as the NATO members weren't all agreed. Mr. Mac- millan met President Kennedy in Washington and expert observers came to the conclusion that an early summit meeting with Mr. Khrushchev seemed unlikely. Chances of a Berlin settlement, ou the other hand, seemed the merest shade more rosy than before. An Anglo-American satellite .went into orbit; the United States exploded a second nuclear device in the Pacific; and nuclear physicists objected to an American proposal to carry out another explosion in space, five hundred miles up, as being likely to 'interfere with the environment of the earth.' Major Titov, Soviet astronaut No. 2, arrived in New York to take part in a 'space symposium,' and to meet Major Glenn, United States astronaut No. 1. In Algiers a new OAS outrage killed seven Moslems and wounded a hundred.
ME. MACMILLAN went on front Washington to Ottawa, and told Mr. Diefenbaker that Britain wouldn't go into the Common Market without giving Commonwealth countries a say first. Mean- while, in the first quarter of the year, Britain's exports to Europe, east and west, were higher for the first time than those to the Commonwealth, and without having gone into the Common Market. A United Nations subcommittee noted `the absence of favourable developments' in Southern Rhodesia, and recommended that the situation there should be discussed by the General Assembly. ,The British Ambassador in South Africa invited seven hundred white guests, and none of any other colour, to his Queen's birthday reception, and the South African Amateur Ath- letic Union decided to exclude from its inter- national team even those Africans who had beaten white runners in the trials. The Home Secretary refused to return to Cyprus two Cypriots who had worked for British intelligence during the troubles, and a pledge that Britain would not return political refugees to South Africa was written into the South Africa Bill.
* THE NUMBER OF HOMELESS FAMILIES in London went up, and Bank rate went down. So did cigarette-smoking--because, said the chairinan of Gallahers, the report on the connection with lung cancer had 'put the whole problem out of perspective.' It looked like a national dOck strike, but the ETU voted against a national ship- building and engineering strike. The President of the Royal Academy said that it seemed improb- able that the Leonardo cartoon would be saved for Britain and that a society that could find £10 million to gamble with on the Grand National Ought to have responded more promptly. A millionaire won £18,000 for a £40 stake in the football pools, and said he would give it to Charity : his son said, 'My old man has earned that much in a week.' Privy Councillor won the 2,000 Guineas.
* THE PRINCE OF WALES went to school, and his parents went to Amsterdam to help Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard celebrate their silVer wedding. 'When the Saints go Marching in' was sung during the May Day celebrations on Red Square, where Madam Furtseva embraced the Belgian Queen Mother, and a nice seat in the front row was found for Marshal Voroshilov. Mr. Long, the United States chief customs officer in San Francisco, arrested Mr. Wong, a Chinese member of the crew of a British cruiser in which had been discovered some millions of dollars' worth of heroin and opium, as *ell as diamonds and jade. In clink too was Kan Ping Kwok.
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