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...American delegates will be accommodated in Belgian student dormitories along with the delegates from Canada. Denmark, England, France, Holland, Luxembourg, and Norway. The delegates will visit Belgian universities and representative Belgian industries in addition to the activities at the conference...
...dollars-and thus help conserve scarce continental dollars. Furthermore, they argued, a Goodyear plant would be healthy for the Benelux economy, giving a new source of employment. And local revenues would increase still further when Goodyear's plant started buying such Benelux raw materials as rubber from the Belgian Congo and the former Netherlands East Indies, and rayon and cotton cord from Belgium and The Netherlands. Another potent argument was the undisclosed sum Goodyear offered for a 45-acre site 18 miles north of Luxembourg City, the duchy's capital. The land belonged to Grand Duchess Charlotte herself...
...Geneva last week, the U.N. Trusteeship Council took up the case of Ruanda-Urundi's 1,000,000 sleek, lyre-horned cattle, which were doing much too well for the good of the land's 3,800,000 people. A report on the Belgian administration of the Central African trust territory had revealed that the cattle were crowding the humans for living space...
...Royal Favor. Franck was born a Belgian. Like Mozart, he was the victim of a pushing father who insisted that the "exceptional boy" bring fame & fortune to the family by becoming a virtuoso pianist. When young Cesar began to teach, Franck pere drew up a table showing the exact time it should take Cesar to get from pupil to pupil, then back home again to his practice. When the young man insisted on composing as well as performing, father Franck brashly had Cesar dedicate his first published music to King Leopold I, hoping for Belgian royal favor. None came...
Married. Carl Ludwig von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, 31, fourth son of Emperor Karl I, last ruler (1916-18) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; and Princess Yolande de Ligne, 26, daughter of Prince Eugene de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to India; in an elaborate ceremony performed by the Primate of Belgium, at the De Ligne family castle, Beloeil, Belgium...