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...Arthur Haulot, Belgian poet-journalist: "The hell with...
Operation Holdfast climaxed a month of the most ambitious maneuvers that NATO's small, green but growing forces have so far staged. On the north German plain, east of the Rhine, 150,000 British, Dutch, Belgian and Canadian troops were holding off a theoretical mass attack from the east. Britain had contributed three armored divisions, equipped with the 52-ton, Korea-tested Centurion tank. Belgium had one division of obsolescent U.S. Shermans...
With these lines, a Belgian poetess registered her protest against Fellow Poetess Pierette Micheloud, of Vex, Switzerland, who insisted on puffing away at a long-stemmed, elegant pipe. The limerick was by far the sharpest contribution heard at the First International Poetry Biennial, which assembled 200 poets from 30 countries at Knokke le Zoute, Belgian seaside resort, to spend a happy four days talking shop and eying each other's iambs...
...Belgian Poet Pierre-Louis Flouquet suggested a remedy: a worldwide "poetry day" in May during which all schools would devote a solid hour to the muse, sending the students home to brighten their parents' drab, workaday existence with a bit of T. S. Eliot or Rabindranath Tagore. After spirited debate, Flouquet's motion was voted down...
...Alcohol Sin? The All-Drys opened up with a learned distillation of the theology of antialcoholism. "Drunkenness," cried Belgian All-Dry Abbe Maas in summation, "is a mortal sin." Then the medicine men got down to figures. In Sweden, said Gunnar Nelker, ten times as many alcoholics get divorces as nonalcoholics. The industrial accident rate in Germany, rumbled Professor Otto Graf, is three times as high among heavy drinkers as it is among abstainers. But it was the French Half-Wrets who proved to be the experts on alcoholism. "Instead of returning to his squalid home," said Professor Charles Foulen...