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...operates two million acres of palm-oil plantations in the Belgian Congo, 300,000 acres of coconut plantations in the Solomon Islands. It has its own freighter service between West Africa and England, sends three fleets of its own trawlers into the North Sea for fish (until midway in World War II, Unilever operated 17 of the world's fastest whalers...
...French, Italian, Austrian and Belgian Socialists had a different position. They foresaw an eventual break with the Communists, but thought the present moment was "premature." Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland strung along with the British Labor Party, as they usually do. The Argentine delegate, Nicolás Repetto, hoped a Socialist International might help him fight Perón. A Canadian delegate favored an anti-Communist Socialist International, but he had a worry of his own: "Any future war will be between America and Russia-and we Canadians are between. We will get the atom bombs that miss...
Died. Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne, 74, old-school Belgian Ambassador to London, bemonocled dean of the diplomatic corps of the Court of St. James's; of a heart attack; in London. A diplomat's diplomat, he loved verbal jousts with the press, once defined his job: "A good ambassador is one who carries off the pork without spilling the beans...
...World War I he served two years with the Spahis Algeriens, then served with the Belgian War Purchasing Commission in London. (To do so, he learned English in 15 days.) After that he served on a dozen government missions, became vice president of the Ford Motor Co. of Belgium and, in 1939, Belgium's Finance Minister. When Belgium fell, he was the first Minister to arrive in London, just before the heavy air raids started. By that time he held the portfolios of finance, war, navy, economic affairs in the government-in-exile...
...Jackson, whose real name, according to the Mexican police, is Jacques van den Dreschd (he is a Belgian traveling on false Canadian papers), is still in a Mexico City jail. A month ago, Manhattan's socialist New Leader reported that the FBI, at the request of the Mexican Government, was working on his case. Jackson had committed an assassin's No. 1 crime: he had failed to escape. Said the New Leader: the Mexican police have discovered that the NKVD is now trying to liquidate Jackson; the operation is in charge of a little-publicized U.S. woman Communist...