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Tshombe applied to the State Department for a visa under a Belgian passport on Jan. 19, and again on Feb. 3, according to Donald B. Shafto, chairman of the rally. His application has not yet been considered, Shafto said...
...since he became Premier of the Congo, Cyrille Adoula, 38, delighted a White House luncheon party by toasting the U.S. for "having scored a bull's eye" with its Congo policy, scored a bull's eye himself by his tactful management of a potentially explosive meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, who came away proclaiming his "pleasure" over the encounter. Similarly impressed by the touring chief of government: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, who presented the Catholic-educated Adoula with a pair of cuff links bearing the Cardinal's coat of arms...
...strong." But his successor, General Helmuth von Moltke, was a Christian Scientist, a cello player, and a cautious man: he weakened the right wing to strengthen the line elsewhere. When the preposterous Russians, unequipped, untrained and unafraid, invaded East Prussia, Moltke forgot Schlieffen and diverted two corps from the Belgian drive to the Russian front. The two corps were never needed; General Erich Ludendorff routed the Russians at Tannenberg before his reinforcements arrived...
...himself is a prime example. Born in Kreminiecz, Russia, but taken to San Francisco by his parents before he was a year old, he studied with the San Francisco Symphony's Russian-born and trained Naum Blinder, later listened to recordings of the Austrian Fritz Kreisler and the Belgian Eugène Ysaÿe. What emerged from this combination of influences was a manner of playing that is best described as modified romantic-Slavic ardor and butter-smooth tone, under the taut discipline of a scholarly musical mind...
...rabble's latest atrocity reached the outside world. This time the scene was Kongolo, a river town in northern Katanga which Gizenga's men occupied on Dec. 31. Outside Kongolo was the modest Catholic Mission of the Holy Spirit, where a score of sandaled, white-robed Belgian fathers had calmly continued operating their school through all the months of war and political crisis: "It is God's will that we are here," they shrugged, ignoring repeated pleas that they leave for their own safety...