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...first Free Belgian to parachute into his German-occupied homeland after King Leopold III surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 slipped back to London with a confidential letter. Addressed to a Belgian minister-in-exile, it came from a friend of the royal family. "Could you please do something about the situation at Laeken [Palace]? The King is surrounded ... A beautiful German blonde masseuse comes in every morning, and the King sees far too much of Mademoiselle Baels...
...their flooded countrymen. A quick return and a tour of the worst-hit areas hardly helped at all, for Baudouin caught cold and flew back to the Riviera. Returning to Brussels, he gave a parting interview to the Parisian France Soir and was quoted as saying: "It is Belgian unity itself that is being attacked through the attacks on the royal family...
...King Is Ill. To a seething Belgian Parliament, Premier Van Houtte presented a doctor's certificate. "The King," he pleaded, "is seriously ill." But the opposition's No. 1 target was not His Majesty, but the unpopular "Shrimp Queen." "Madame de Réthy, we are sure," snapped the Socialist Le Peuple, "was primarily responsible for this detestable incident. She is exercising a palace influence to which she has no right." Furthermore, said Le Peuple, her opennecked blouses and slacks are "provocative" and her behavior "indiscreet and boisterous. The government must regulate her status...
Tonight We Sing is at its slickly Technicolored best when it makes music. As Russian Ballerina Anna Pavlova, Toumanova dances the famed Dying Swan. As noted Belgian Violinist Eugéne Ysaÿe, Isaac Stern plays a Wieniawski Concerto and Sarasate's Ziegeunerweisen. As Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, in a blond wig, swaggers off with the show by giving a lustily humorous performance and singing snatches from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Gounod's Faust, and a chorus of The Volga Boatman. These latter-day artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using...
...Communist Marshal Tito a $30 million loan. The loan will include no dollars, but it will be the biggest mixture of European currencies ever passed in one package by the World Bank-some $10 million in French francs, $7,500,000 in Swiss francs, the rest in British pounds, Belgian francs, German marks, Austrian schillings, Italian lire, Dutch guilders, Norwegian kroner and Swedish kronor...