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Great Britain "neveut pas" (does not want) to join the United Europe Movement and cooperate in solving European problems. Paul-Henri Spaak, former Belgian Minister and first President of the United Nations General Assembly, told the CRIMSON yesterday in a half-English, half-French interview...
Belgium's young King Baudouin was wearily sitting it out while post-office officials debated whether the first issue of Belgian postage stamps to picture him should show him with or without his heavy horn-rimmed glasses...
...chapel. The frantic witch burnings of the 16th century, furthermore, in which Protestants and Catholics participated with equal zest, are explained in Satan largely as the products of their times. This heyday of witch burnings, black Masses (i.e., profane renderings of the Catholic Mass) and Devil worship, writes Belgian Scholar Emile Brouette, represented "the dawn of the false empire of Satan in a Europe gripped by religious and moral crisis and a prey to social unrest and political insecurity...
Major Reinold von Thadden cut a fine figure as a German army officer, but he earned few laurels in Hitler's army. As occupation commander of Louvain in Belgium, he saved thousands of Belgian civilians from arrest and deportation. (Since the war's end, many have publicly thanked him.) In September 1944, just before the Allies recaptured Louvain, he calmly risked being shot by disobeying a direct SS order to execute Belgian hostages. "You know that I am a German officer," he replied. "You know that I am a Christian...
...beast, originally from the Belgian Congo, gained considerable notoriety last June when he fell in a moat at his Bronx Zoo home and promptly drowned. After rescue efforts of his keeper failed to revive him, Makoko was put on ice and Dr. Erikson was hastily summoned...