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...economic and political progress of all non-Communist Asiatic areas, free and colonial. This would involve development programs sponsored by the U.S. and other nations, using public and private capital. The key to this program is the example of recent British-Indian relations. When India surprisingly decided two months ago to stay in the Commonwealth with Britain, the Communist press howled with disappointment and rage. Well it might. India's decision does not balance the loss of China, but it does point the way to a constructive relationship between the Western and the Asian democracies. Some immediate tasks...
There is a descendant of Charlemagne, Lucrezia Borgia, Mary Queen of Scots, William the Silent, Vladimir of Russia, Geoffrey Chaucer, Pierre de Ronsard, Diane de Poitiers, Agnes Sorel and 1,048,567 other traceable ancestors, who frequently breaks 70 on the golf links. Three years ago he donated a silver cup-La Coupe du Roi des Beiges, for a tournament at Onex, Switzerland-and last year he won the cup himself. This year he reached the quarter finals of the amateur championship in Paris. Other members of the Onex club hail Leopold III, King of the Belgians, as "a perfect...
That was almost five years ago, and Charles is still waiting. Pro-Leopoldists have accused him again & again of usurping his brother's power. Charles has answered by going into virtual seclusion. Such tasks of royalty as the laying of cornerstones have fallen into the hands of Queen Mother Elisabeth, now 72, an eccentric patron of Communist art exhibits...
Hill of the Highnesses. Leopold and Mary Liliane are waiting, too. Four years ago, after a nonstop drive from Austria, they arrived at Le Reposoir, a greystone mansion near Geneva, Switzerland. (The upkeep is $7,500 a year rent, plus wages for six servants, two secretaries.) They dream of a return to Brussels, and Le Reposoir lends itself to such dreams. Built in the 18th Century, it is nicknamed le coteau des altesses-the hill of the highnesses. Among others who have lived there and dreamed of lost diadems were Louis Bonaparte's Queen Hortense and Napoleon...
...retreating Greek Communist guerrillas, Yugoslavia has long been a refuge from which they could later sally forth, refreshed and rearmed. Since the Cominform's cold war against Tito began a year ago, this aid has diminished but it has not ceased altogether...