Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...queues to stare at the Victory of Samothrace and the Mona Lisa. Around the Place de la Concorde, traffic whirled wildly as ever, but the license plates on the cars were predominantly Swiss, Italian, German, British, Danish, Dutch and U.S. The chattering voices in the cafes were British, American, Belgian, German-but not French. The locals had left the city to the invaders. In August, France is "en vacances." The Lemmings. In France in August, whole industries (automobiles, steel) shut down, whole streets are shuttered, in a migration as inexorable as lemmings. Railroad stations are loud with the shrill confusion...
...Congo. A thousand miles to the West, in the prosperous Congo, Belgian Governor General Léo Pétillon, 52, spoke out still more boldly. To the 14 million Negroes and 70,000 whites he announced a drastic change in Belgium's successful policy of economic advance but no votes -for whites or blacks. Henceforth, educated Africans will 1) be gradually assimilated into the Congo's administration, 2) get a voice in local councils...
...many weak ones. Kürenberg's book makes the going a bit sticky for people whose knowledge of modern European history is shaky, but it will bring many a surprise to readers who vaguely remember Wilhelm as the Iron Hohenzollern who had something to do with bayoneting Belgian babies. Most of all, it will shake the beliefs of those who are still under the impression that the Kaiser personally started World...
...Alberta oil grew bigger last week. Eric Lafferty Harvie, 63, a Calgary lawyer whose oil earnings to date are estimated at more than $120 million, sold control of his Western Leaseholds Ltd. for an undisclosed price. The buyer was Compagnie Financière Beige des Petroles (Petrofina), a Belgian company with worldwide holdings which is rapidly building and buying its way into a top position in Canada...
...Even if I were going to be hung, I would come anyway," Bell recently wrote to his wife. The third American, William Cowart of Dalton, Ga., wanted to go to Japan. A couple of Belgian army deserters also wanted to get out of Red China, respectively in favor of the U.S. and Laos...