Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like corporation directors, the paternalistic Belgian masters of the mineral-rich Congo have tried to avoid politics altogether, keeping the vote from black and white alike and striving to give each an equal opportunity to enjoy the highest standard of living in Middle Africa. It has worked well. France's policy, in the great sweep of its Middle Africa territories, Equatorial Africa and the Western Sudan, has been that of education and assimilation-the idealistic if not always practicable notion that once Africans think of themselves as Frenchmen, everything will be all right. In Mozambique and Angola, Portugal...
...Many Conferences. Founded by a Belgian-born League of Nations interpreter named Antoine Velleman, the school began with only 20 students in one of the buildings of the University of Geneva. By 1951, when Dean Stelling-Michaud took over, Geneva canton authorities were so impressed by it that they agreed to help finance it. Stelling-Michaud added modern equipment for simultaneous translation, built up one of the largest dictionary libraries in the world. By 1955 the school had become an autonomous part of the University of Geneva...
...Lord Jim, which read like a boy's story, was actually a painful parable of the penance a man must do to reclaim honor lost in one moment of cowardice. In Heart of Darkness, the most enigmatic of his novels, Conrad used as background his dismal experiences in the Belgian Congo. Its protagonist Kurtz is a portrait of a man whose pure will-to-power has squandered itself hopelessly. In the epigraph to The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot saluted this defeat: "Mistah Kurtz?he dead," quoted Eliot, recognizing that no man is more hollow than the defeated egotist...
Last month a 23-year-old Parisian climbed to the summit of Mont Blanc all alone. Inspired by his success, two other ambitious young mountaineers, Parisian Jean Vincendon, 23, and Belgian François Henry, 22, decided to have a try at its challenging heights. They set out early in the morning of Dec. 22. The sky was blue and the air was warm, the kind of weather when skiers down below wish for snow. Four days later the skiers had their snow. Up above, the Alpine peaks were shrouded with ominous evidence of storm and fury. Torn between heartache...
Apart from ships now finishing the Port Said job, the U.N. has 31 Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Italian, Belgian and German ships available to haul at the 27 wrecks farther south. Still to be negotiated is the question of whether Nasser will let British-manned U.N. salvage vessels move down to help on this...