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very unlikely ; if Formula Three restores the original
and decisive ones ; but without it , we could not
look for them . Federal Germany votes tomorrow
important advance . We must not be overconfident
and not a day too soon . There can seldom have
To be able to say " New York next week " is an
and done with .
that this # meeting will lead on to further
been an election campaign which more people
in and out of the country wanted to see over
if Western Governments had not been convinced
the Berlin crisis . It need not have been such a burden
millstone weighing down and almost paralysing their
efforts to work out sensible ways of dealing with
that they must do nothing to harm even remotely Dr
To Germany's Western allies the campaign has been a
Adenauer's chances of being returned as Chancellor .
when the polling stations close .
many people : they too will be glad
But they were so convinced and they
while in Germany itself the course of
have had to take the consequences . Mean-
the campaign has dismayed a good
is not yet a unitary world .
truism that policies of menace and mutual disarmament
and it is an achievement - is to make religious con-
tact across the greatest political barrier in what
cannot be followed together . What the council has done -
But discussion on current points of east-west con-
flict could not go much farther than , for example , the
short and modest in scope , and it is doubtful whether the other Private
The notification he envisages must be given at least two days before the
agreement is signed . To this there will be some opposition . The Bill is
next report from the Molony committee .
Members' Bills in the offing will fill all the gaps . This fact may give
the Government an extra excuse for counselling patience until the
parliamentary opinion by at least allowing these Bills a fair run .
however , disdain this opportunity of obtaining a useful sample of
Comprehensive legislation is obviously preferable . They should not ,
logical Office .
Centigrade v. Fahrenheit . The fight is on . The challenger has behind
but also the backing of the DIRECTOR GENERAL of the Meteoro-
it not only the authority of the SECRETARY of STATE for AIR
fahrenheit the knock out . The backers of
ratures will be put in the ring together .
explain the advantages to the general
about it yesterday . The purpose is to give
SIR GRAHAM SUTTON , however , made no bones
public of the change .
asked to help . To begin with , both tempe-
The press and the broadcasting authorities are
start if they had taken more pains to
centigrade would have got off to a better
however , seems a matter of the convenience
the measurement of temperatures . This ,
to be put out for the sake of 50,000 is there
any reason why the centigrade countries
of specialists . The ordinary British man
It is true that SIR GRAHAM said there is
at the moment " an awful mess up " in
and woman is conscious of no difficulty .
Rather than fifty million people having
should not change to fahrenheit ?
system of recording temperatures .
public to go over to decimal coinage - in certain
suit their convenience - rather than to change their
Even then it might be easier to persuade the British
have to call up the reinforcement of the Common Market .
circumstances the time would come when this would
strably better than the other ? The centigraders may
be in for a stiffer fight than they think . They may
Can it be shown that the one scale is demon-
became very unpopular .
roped in . The only result was
that the well-meaning corporation
Once before , and that not so long ago , the
clock . Then , also , the B.B.C. were
In any case , fahrenheit need not lose heart .
the adoption of the twenty-four hour
authorities ganged up to alter the habits
of the people . That effort was to enforce
the murder of Patrice Lumumba . Her
stands at the centre of an international
storm . Belgium is accused - without a
scrap of evidence - of being implicated in
A BAFFLED and bewildered little country
leaders are insulted , her embassies are
attacked in a score of countries .
will not admit they were wrong . So
trouble in the Congo , orders every Belgian
is made their scapegoat .
citizen to quit his country . HOUNDING
has done more than most to stir up
In Ghana , President Nkrumah , who
said the Congolese could govern themselves
Belgium has become an international
troubles , mourning a terrible air crash ,
Belgium , bowed down by internal
pastime . Why ? Because those who
larders been so well stocked .