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...Belgian freighter Vinotra broke in two and sank in heavy seas off Holland. Its master and his wife, the only persons on board, were missing...
...Roman Catholic Church is losing ground fast among its 168 million members in Latin America-close to one-third of all the Catholics in the world. This is the considered opinion of a Belgian Jesuit sociologist who has spent the last three years in Chile, is now director of the School of Sociology of Chile's Catholic Pontifical University. The church's difficulties, says the Rev. Roger E. Vekemans in the weekly Ave Maria, began in the 19th century after the Latin American countries achieved independence from Spain and Portugal and thus were thrown open to such influences...
...Belgian officials were hard pressed to stop the fighting. For one thing, they were already busy with another kind of savagery among the nearby Bushongo tribesmen. Now that there was talk of independence, the Bushongos were reviving the forbidden ritual custom of tschipapa, or trial by poison. Tschipapa, the traditional Bushongo method of dealing with witches, is a deadly kind of liquid roulette in which entire villages line up to drink from cups carefully arranged to bring death to those infected with evil spirits...
Sometimes Belgian police, arriving immediately after a poison trial, have administered emetics and saved the lives of suspected witches, but this merely means the defendant must undergo another trial later. Most victims, anxious to prove their innocence, undergo tschipapa willingly, reported Correspondent Bigart, and are reluctant to help the Belgians prosecute the sorcerers...
...sharp contrast is the French and Belgian record. At the university level, most French Africans have been trained in France. In all the vastness of French black Africa-ten times bigger than Texas -there is only one "university" (Dakar), which is no university by British African standards. Nonetheless, France has tried to educate an African elite (though only twelve French Equatorial Africans are now studying in Paris). But the Belgians have made no such effort: the roiling Belgian Congo has no university graduates capable of running an independent state. Belgium tried, but too late. It sank $9,000,000 into...