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Like corporation directors, the paternalistic Belgian masters of the mineral-rich Congo have tried to avoid politics altogether, keeping the vote from black and white alike and striving to give each an equal opportunity to enjoy the highest standard of living in Middle Africa. It has worked well. France's policy, in the great sweep of its Middle Africa territories, Equatorial Africa and the Western Sudan, has been that of education and assimilation-the idealistic if not always practicable notion that once Africans think of themselves as Frenchmen, everything will be all right. In Mozambique and Angola, Portugal...
...opium war in China kept him from achieving his ambition to go there. There was Henry Stanley, a British-born U.S. reporter, who went to Africa in search of a feature story for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald and stayed to open up the whole Belgian Congo for King Leopold II. Through the doors opened by the explorers came a stream of colonizers and empire builders like Cecil Rhodes, bringing with them armies of semiskilled labor from India to help build today's Middle Africa, and to complicate its racial patterns...
...single room composed of "freestanding circles in a rectangle," with the kitchen and bath the most prominent circles set in the rectangle of the living area. Blue translucent-glass panels let in light and cut the glare; the interior is furnished with pale Japanese silks, gold-veined black Belgian marble, Finnish lamps, lacquered cane and teak chairs, aquamarine Puerto Rican tile, East Indian alabaster, a walnut-paneled bath with a circular tub of cerulean Italian tiles. Architect Hampton built the house to suit the owner's specific demands: "A home where I and my friends could be comfortable...
These words, written by a Belgian nun in the register of St. Catherine's Female Academy at Benicia, Calif., were as important to Louise Hungerford as if they were inscribed in the Almanach de Gotha. They were her cachet of respectability, her inner answer to the poverty of childhood and the gossiping envy that surrounded her later life. Her father could afford to keep her at St. Catherine's for only a single term. But it was enough. In her 85th year, when she had been a friend of the former Queen of Spain and the Prince...
...Many Conferences. Founded by a Belgian-born League of Nations interpreter named Antoine Velleman, the school began with only 20 students in one of the buildings of the University of Geneva. By 1951, when Dean Stelling-Michaud took over, Geneva canton authorities were so impressed by it that they agreed to help finance it. Stelling-Michaud added modern equipment for simultaneous translation, built up one of the largest dictionary libraries in the world. By 1955 the school had become an autonomous part of the University of Geneva...