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...didn't make him any part of an authority on Australia in particular or the Far East in general. Nor did it introduce him to the wiles and subtleties of international diplomacy. In fact, it hasn't been of sufficient substances to withstand the ill effects of the "Belgian Paving Block Scandal" in which it was charged, though never proved, that New York City workers had used paving blocks belonging to the city to build up Flynn's private home. The scandal has been instrumental in making Flynn a definite liability to the Democratic party...
...Belgium last fortnight an 82-year-old gentleman who has been described as "the greatest modern Belgian artist . . . the first of the Expressionists ... a pre-Surrealist" was reported dead. He was Baron James Ensor, the son of an Englishman who sold sea shells and other souvenirs in a little shop at Ostend...
...years James Ensor, who never set foot out of Belgium, remained an English citizen. In 1930 Belgium's King Albert created Ensor a baron for his contribution to Belgium's esthetic reputation. Ensor became a Belgian. A street was named after him in his native Ostend. A tablet was placed on the wall of his house saying that he lived there. A statue of him was erected in Ostend's Casino Gardens. He unveiled it himself...
Alexander was dead at 33. Hannibal was 29 when he crossed the Little St. Bernard Pass in the Alps; he was 31 at Cannae and was 45 at Zama. Julius Caesar was 45 in the Belgian campaign; 47 when he invaded Britain...
Operating under the articles of the Geneva convention of 1929, it is the authorized channel for aid to student prisoners. In Germany alone 6,000,000 men are in prison camps, British, Belgian, French, Polish Serblan soldiers. The WSSF is one of the major organizations working to provide them with food an recreational facilities, but it is the only organization which is allowed to send teachers into the prison camps, and set up educational programs...