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...Airman Norstad makes nothing of either time or space in the pursuit of NATO business. "There is a sort of Roman aspect about Norstad," says André de Staercke, permanent Belgian representative on the NATO Council. "There are no borders for this man. Any morning he is apt to say: 'We will be in Ankara at 8 o'clock tonight.' " Often such flying trips serve primarily as valuable propaganda for NATO; sometimes they herald a new departure in the defense of Europe. A few months ago in Italy Norstad moved an audience to tears by declaring: "There...
...nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. At annual meeting of 37-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) these countries protested because common market plans to eliminate tariffs on imports from its own members' overseas territories, but maintain steep tariffs on other imports. Thus, French and Belgian territories in Africa would get much of the brisk European tea, coffee and cocoa trade now dominated by India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Brazil, Ghana...
Collector of Injustice. He was a handsome, romantic, cranky figure, that most irritating kind of idealist, a collector of other people's injustices. A poor orphan boy from Ballymena in County Antrim, he joined the British consular service, was stationed in Africa. The Belgian Congo, then being run as a private slave factory by Belgium's King Leopold II, captured his horrified attention. It was a time before Europe knew itself capable of Belsen, and Europe was shocked by Casement's voluminous, angry reports (published in 1904) on torture, floggings and forced labor. Later, he made similar...
HOUSE OF LIES, by Françoise Mallet-Joris (311 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.75), is a novel with a curiously old fashioned, even Gothic air. An old, wealthy brewer is slowly dying of heart disease in a provincial Belgian town. Around him hovers a cluster of relatives who live for nothing more than the huge fortune they hope to slice. Only one person cares nothing for his money-an illegitimate daughter whom he has acknowledged, taken into his home and educated. Anything but original as a plot-but Author Françoise Mallet-Joris, still only 27, has already...
...people, rather than a superficial tourist's view, that Donald B. Watt had in mind 26 years ago when he made plans for the first Experiment group to go to Switzerland. That first Experiment, in 1932, took a group of American boys to a camp with German and Belgian youths...