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Last month 66-year-old Premier Pholien decided to make his first visit to the U.S. He and Madame Pholien quietly paid their own fares on a scheduled Sabena Airline flight to New York. After some hurried sightseeing in Manhattan, the Pholiens, accompanied by State Department and Belgian officials, left Washington last week for a look at the country. They inspected a General Motors truck plant in Detroit and a chemical factory in Muscle Shoals, Ala., rode in a helicopter at Wright Field. Back in Washington the Premier had lunch at Blair House with Dean Acheson and Harry Truman...
Lieut. General Alexander von Falkenhausen, sentenced to twelve years at hard labor last month on charges of war crimes committed while he was military governor of Belgium, last week was a free man. The Belgian government released the 72-year-old prisoner, after crediting him with the six years served before he came to trial. Before dawn, Falkenhausen hurried to the German border, where he told newsmen: "I will go to friends and to my dogs who surely wait for me." As for German participation in European defense: "I can't imagine myself fighting shoulder to shoulder with contingents...
...almost three years the Atomic Energy Commission has made a standing offer of $10,000 to anyone who discovers a deposit of high-grade uranium ore. No one has claimed the reward. Last week AEC, which buys most of its ore from Canada and the Belgian Congo, raised the offer to a top of $35,000, agreed to pay for the discovery of low-grade deposits...
...when the Negro is told to fight for the free nations of the West," the massive singer continued, "he must realize that among these nations are the Belgium of the Belgian Congo and the England of the South African compounds...
...diamonds has risen 20% in six months, and U.S. rearmament has sent the price of industrial diamonds (vital for cutting tools) soaring 100% since Korea. Not only capitalists buy diamonds; an "unknown buyer" thought to be the Soviet Union has suddenly started buying all it can in the Belgian markets, presumably to build its own stockpile for machine tools...