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...start to finish, last week's farewell party for the retiring ambassador* and his wife was a happy get-together of good friends. Evita brought a new portrait down from the second floor to show her guests. Perón gave his friend Don Jaime a hand-tooled Belgian automatic shotgun, just the gift for an ambassador whose favorite Argentine sport has been weekend partridge shooting (in the Gaucho getup given him by Defense Minister Humberto Sosa Molina...
...Vague Appeal. In Liberia, British West Africa, the Belgian Congo, the Union of South Africa and the Rhodesias, Dean Pope conferred with 125 native leaders, as well as missionaries and government officials. "As a whole," he said, "the African leaders are as embittered, confused and without hope as any group of men on earth...Grievances vary, but there is almost universal bitterness against white men-a small minority in every country who have arrogated to themselves all the most important political prerogatives, economic resources and cultural opportunities." The leaders have little contact with one another and Communism as a movement...
...Premier in this uneasy coalition was youngish (44), handsome Gaston Eyskens, who as former Finance Minister had been the scarecrow of Belgian taxpayers. His tax collectors, to whom he had given virtually inquisitorial powers, had outraged Belgians, who are highly imaginative deduction hunters. A learned, conservative economist, Eyskens will push strict government economy, lower taxes, fewer state controls...
...Christian Socialists' staunchest Leopoldist, ex-Premier Paul van Zeeland. Almost continuously for the past 13 years the Foreign Affairs portfolio had been held by the Socialists' able Paul Henri-Spaak, who last week became president of the Council of Europe's Consultative Assembly. Commented a Belgian newspaper: "Lost for Belgium but won for Europe...
Among the other countries whose Catholics have made claims for a cardinal is the Belgian Congo, with more than 4,000,000 Catholics and 28 apostolic dioceses. Said the Congo's Apostolic Delegate to a friend recently: "I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a Negro bishop made his appearance to get his red hat at the next consistory...