to vote to everyone who has reached the age of eighteen, man or woman.

• The Iraqi Women's Union sub-mitted a petition bearing hundreds of signatures, the women asking to obtain their political rights on a par with their Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian, and Egyptian sisters.

• The annual meeting of the General Arab Women's Union convened in Cairo on the twenty-first of last March; this meeting comprises, besides the

members of the head bureau in Beirut, the presidents and secre-taries of the Arab unions.

• The disturbances in Cyprus are still at their height, despite the arrest and exile of Bishop Makarios, archbishop of Cyprus, and his aides among the clergy, to the "Seychelles" islands in the Indian Ocean.

• President Eisenhower has decided to nominate himself a second time for the presidency of the American Republic, after

his physicians assured him of his ability to wage the battle for the presidency.

• It has become settled that Mr. Bulganin, head of the government of the Soviet Union, and Mr. Khrushchev will visit Britain in the middle of next April; the British government is preparing to receive the two great guests, and all precautions have been taken to safeguard their lives for the duration of their stay in Britain.