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...more than a century everyone had managed to get along just fine, even though part of the town was called Baarle-Hertog and was Belgian, and the other was called Baarle-Nassau and was Dutch. Then one day in 1939, a Belgian named Sooi Van Den Eijnde decided to lead his pigs across Lots 91 and 92. The Netherlands Railways, convinced that the lots were Dutch, had built nine houses there, and the Dutch customs official lived in one of them...
...cried the Dutchman when he saw Sooi, "have you got a license to import those pigs?" Retorted Sooi: "I am on Belgian soil-Hertog soil." It soon turned out that in a way he was right: in their treaty of 1843 Holland and Belgium had decided that the land in question was Dutch, but because of an error of a sleepy clerk, it was listed as Belgian-as Sooi subsequently proved in court...
...Brother Attilio, returning to Britain as Alfredo's replacement, was promptly sentenced to six months as a pimp. So Carmello and Eugene ran the business from Belgium; using Brazilian and Cuban passports, they traveled from Rome to Paris to Vienna, recruiting new girls. A typical example was pretty Belgian Marie Vernaecke, who was set up in a Mayfair flat, married to a complaisant Englishman to qualify for British citizenship; she earned the brothers around $5,600 a month. Unfortunately, Belgian police caught Carmello and Eugene in a nightclub just as they were closing a deal with two more Belgian...
...Last week Eugene was keeping busy in his Belgian jail cell signing checks for rent and taxes on his London property, which, according to the Sunday People, is still being used for the customary purposes by Messina girls. And two more of the ubiquitous brothers are still on the loose somewhere in Europe...
...ambitious land-reclamation projects. Last year restive tribes in Chad to the north and the Congo Republic, where blacks have massacred blacks, petitioned to join his country. Coming from him, talk of a United States of Latin Africa consisting not only of parts of French Africa, but also the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola, did not seem mere idle chatter...