Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brother Attilio, returning to Britain as Alfredo's replacement, was promptly sentenced to six months as a pimp. So Carmello and Eugene ran the business from Belgium; using Brazilian and Cuban passports, they traveled from Rome to Paris to Vienna, recruiting new girls. A typical example was pretty Belgian Marie Vernaecke, who was set up in a Mayfair flat, married to a complaisant Englishman to qualify for British citizenship; she earned the brothers around $5,600 a month. Unfortunately, Belgian police caught Carmello and Eugene in a nightclub just as they were closing a deal with two more Belgian...
...ambitious land-reclamation projects. Last year restive tribes in Chad to the north and the Congo Republic, where blacks have massacred blacks, petitioned to join his country. Coming from him, talk of a United States of Latin Africa consisting not only of parts of French Africa, but also the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola, did not seem mere idle chatter...
South of the Border. Dr. Koprowski's Wistar version of live vaccine got its mass test in 215,000 subjects in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda (TIME, Aug. 11). Variants developed by Lederle Laboratories since he left are being widely used in Latin America...
...anxious to assert its authority and frightened by the recent outbreaks in the Belgian Congo, the Federal government's reaction was hasty and excessive. A state of emergency was declared, the African Congress was banned, and Dr. Banda and many of its leaders were arrested. While these measures may have been necessary to preserve the peace, the use of white Rhodesian reservists in Nyasaland, rather than the British ones available in Kenya, was not needed, and is certain to stimulate bad feeling. Equally unfortunate was the recent forceful expulsion of a visiting Labourite Member of Parliament, who was accused, perhaps...
PRIX GONCOURT. Hardly anyone had heard of the winning book, Saint-Germain, ou la Negotiation, before the award was announced, but the prize assures a sale of 100,000 copies. Written by Francis Walder, a retired Belgian artillery officer turned minor diplomat, Saint-Germain is a diplomat's reconstruction of the negotiations that led up to the peace of Saint-Germain, the temporary truce between French Huguenots and French Catholics before the St. Bartholomew Massacre of 1572. "One can understand his wanting to write the book," sniffed one critic who struggled through it, "but what one cannot understand...