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...seat of the uproar was a familiar but far from extinct political volcano: the conflict over state-school funds between Socialists and anticlericals on the one hand and Belgian Catholics on the other. Last year, when the present Liberal-Socialist government came into office, Socialist Leo Collard, the new Minister of Education, quickly made it clear that he intended to favor secular schools in the allotment of state education subsidies. In the previous Catholic government the principle of equal treatment had been applied to state schools, with some 712,000 pupils, and Catholic schools, with...
There is a man going around town taking names for a Belgian Congo safari to capture rare birds for a Yale museum...
Through Nigeria and the Belgian Congo, north to Egypt, across Pakistan and India to Burma, the tireless ambassador made tens of thousands of friends. Gifts were pressed on him-a leopard skin in India, Olympic laurels in Greece, a chieftain's crown in Nigeria...
WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING is planned in Brussels for the 1958 World's Fair. Belgian Cabinet has just approved plans for a 2,034-ft. tower (340 feet taller than Manhattan's Empire State Building) to house TV studios, exposition halls, and café. Cost: about $20 million...
...BELGIAN BONDS will go on sale in the U.S. market soon for the first time in 20 years. Belgium, which needs $50 million to improve the Port of Antwerp and inland waterways, will float a $30 million issue through New York's Morgan Stanley & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co., has got the rest in a loan from the World Bank...