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...bedrooms upstairs, had the slightest idea that jewels worth $120,000-and Van der Kemp's key to his apartment in the Versailles Palace-were being stolen. In the Villa Mayou. the Troubetzkoys' cook, maitre d'hōtel and two royal poodles watched a Belgian bicycle race on the television set in the servants' quarters; they were unaware of the agile figure who scaled the Villa's facade, tiptoed into Princess Marcia's boudoir, tiptoed out with $14,000 in gems. Not that anyone cared. Said the prince the next day: "Such things...
...creation of a new order in a confused world. But some times there is serious question as to what kind of order the U.N.'s Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold proposes to create. Last week, under the authority of a Security Council resolution calling for the removal of all Belgian officers from the Congo, U.N. troops staged an extraordinary operation...
...troops swarmed into action at Elisabethville, capital of the Congo's breakaway Katanga province. Without any warning to the Katangans, platoons of Indians seized the studios of Radio Katanga; Swedish infantry occupied the transmitter site on the outskirts of the city. At Katanga army headquarters, Irish troops intercepted Belgian officers on their way to work. Most of Katanga's 634 white officers surrendered expeditiously and were promptly put under U.N. detention pending expulsion from Katanga. Others prudently went underground or sought asylum at Elisabethville's foreign consulates. The 11,600 black Katanga troops remained passive, possibly because...
...Primate of Belgium since 1926 and the third prince of the church (after Cardinals Tardini and Canali) to die within eight days; after a long circulatory illness; in Mechlin, Belgium. A lifelong political activist known to his flock as "the Iron Bishop," Cardinal Van Roey excommunicated World War II Belgian quislings, unsuccessfully opposed the abdication of ex-King Leopold, and denounced with equal fervor his nation's prewar fascists and postwar socialists...
...European painting is studied and tired, missing the freshness of spring." says Belgian Industrialist Philippe Dotremont. "American painting bursts forth from the ground like flowers, disengaged from tradition and the past. If a man moves by plane rather than oxcart, why must he prefer Rubens to Pollock...