Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business for 27 years in a modest establishment far from the fashionable couture neighborhood. The designer is little (5 ft. 6 in., 154 lbs.), blond Jules-François Crahay, 41, who "merely did what I've been doing all my life." The Paris-trained son of a Belgian dressmaker, he settled at Madame Ricci's after three years of military service and five years in German prison camps had wrecked his own business in Belgium, has been designing clothes ever since. Says Crahay: "Couturiers can make a living only if the ready-to-wear buyers purchase their...
...name is Maria Gabriella Giuseppa Aldegonda Adelaide Margherita Ludovica Felicita Gennara di Savoia. The founder of her house was Humbert the White-handed, who ruled Savoy in the 11th century. Among her ancestors are saints, Holy Roman and Byzantine emperors, antipopes, French and Belgian princesses, Italian and Balkan nobility and kings of lands as widely separated as Spain and Cyprus and England. Italy, last week, was in a ferment over Princess Maria Gabriella. The report was that she might marry a king twice her age whose father had been an army private...
Whites in Salisbury were distressed by the recent bloody riots in the Belgian Congo; last week they found troubles closer to home in Nyasaland. There, when police in the capital city of Zomba tried to break up an illegal parade in honor of the ubiquitous Dr. Banda, a riot broke out in which cars, shops and offices were stoned. In Salisbury, something sprang up called the European National Congress, dedicated to "the unity of the white race in all Africa in the face of the rising tide of black nationalism...
...initial calm and generally welcoming acceptance of the King's speech in the Congo, many Belgiums feared that their government may have waited too long to make its offer. In Léopoldville Belgian paratroopers still patrolled the streets, hundreds of whites are keeping revolvers handy, and as long as the city's three top burgomasters (all black) remained in jail, disorder might strike at any time. Warned the Gazet van Antwerpen: "With oppressed hearts we wonder whether the people who yesterday stood against each other as enemies will be able to collaborate...
...Brussels a hushed special session of Parliament quickly voted to send an investigatory mission. The new Minister of the Congo, Maurice van Hemelrijck, a longtime critic of Belgian complacency and the author of a long-awaited proposal for the Congo's gradual emancipation that is to be presented to Parliament this week, gave his countrymen a brief but pointed lecture. "We have been on the border of catastrophe," he said. "We are not without fault. We could not wait so long without punishment before letting the Congolese know of our intentions...