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...Girl Was a Boy. Only in the Low Countries have parliamentarians shown any real enthusiasm for EDC. The Netherlands' lower chamber ratified EDC by 75 votes to 11 (TIME, Aug. 3). A special committee of the Belgian Parliament has also approved the text, but Belgian lawyers insist that a constitutional amendment is needed...
...Postwar politics complicated the unity: Holland lost her colonial empire in Indonesia, Belgium grew rich on hers; the population of Holland increased rapidly, that of Belgium remained fairly static; Holland's constitutional monarchy remained steady, Belgium was uncertain about her King; the Dutch worked for low wages, the Belgians demanded high wages. When cheap Dutch goods flooded the Belgian market, Belgian industrialists complained. Full economic union, due to take place in 1950, was postponed...
...minimum export prices, thus protecting the higher-priced Belgian goods...
...Pearce took tryparsamide to the Belgian Congo in 1920. At an experiment station in Leopoldville, she tried it on scores of suffering natives, found it both safer and far more effective than atoxyl. In the earlier stages of sleeping sickness, it can work a complete cure...
Last week, after sleeping on it for about 30 years, the Belgian government honored Leopold's pledge-and upped the award to $20,000. In Brussels, Dr. Pearce, 68, received from King Baudouin the lion's share of $10,000 and was made an officer of the Royal Order of the Lion. To Drs. Jacobs and Heidelberger went $2,000 each and the Order of Leopold II; to Dr. Brown's estate, his posthumous $4,000; and to that of Britain's late Dr. H. W. Thomas, who helped to develop atoxyl, $2,000. Despite...