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...Belgian infantrymen were the most recent arrivals. Last Wednesday Korean Premier John M. Chang went down to the docks in Pusan to welcome a 650-man Belgian battalion. With it came 50 volunteers from Luxembourg...
...Brussels, Ike bypassed the Belgian Air Force honor guard waiting at the Brussels airport, hurried to his car and hurried into the city. He quickly conferred with civil and defense chiefs, talked to Party Leaders Paul-Henri Spaak (Socialist) and Roger Motz (Liberal), learned that Belgium proposed to: 1) increase her strength in Germany from one to three divisions by the year's end, 2) double the draft period from 12 to 24 months...
...United States must be made in Europe." Russian control of the continent, the group argued, would end England's role as an "unsinkable aircraft carrier," divert the Middle East's oil to the Soviet Union, and turn over to Russia the world's richest uranium source in the Belgian Congo...
...Denver Post, entered the debate against Gibraltarism. All of them warned of the danger of abandoning Western Europe and Asia to Russia. Along with Western Europe would go control of the Mediterranean, of the vast oil resources of the Middle East and of the strategic uranium deposits of the Belgian Congo, which are the main source of supply for U.S. A-bombs. With Africa would go excellent bases for South America-bound Soviet bomber fleets. With Asia would go a treasure house of materials and millions of potential soldiers. In a matter of time, it would mean the loss...
Last week energetic Dr. Douglas Quick, consulting radiologist and cancer specialist at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, had a triumph to announce for his hospital. The Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga, which controls most of the world's limited supply of radium, had promised the hospital a five-year loan of the biggest chunk of radium (50 grams-about 1/10 lb.)* ever amassed. Estimated value...