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...begin their semiannual foreign ministers meeting. On the agenda of the Allies, who formed their pact in fear in 1949 to face the deadly challenge of Soviet expansion, was not one single grim item of cold war business. Indeed, when they sat down in the modernistic Palais des Congrès on a hilltop in Brussels, their principal problem was France, not Russia, and most of the rest of the discussion was concerned with devising some sort of rapprochement with Eastern Europe...
Outside, the Brussels streets were enlivened by gay Christmas lighting and the trudge of desperate last-minute shoppers. Inside, just as desperate, 20 Cabinet ministers from six nations gathered in the boxy Palais des Congrès to try to reach agreement on Common Market farm policies and prices by year's end-or face the threat of Charles de Gaulle to break up the Market. So intricate did their discussions become that the question was who needed the most blackboards to diagram his proposals. At week's end delegates seemed satisfied that important progress had been made...
...substance of a new farm program was worked out by that date, they would veto passage of the Common Market into its second four-year stage, in which majority rule would prevail on all but specific major decisions. Forewarned, delegates of the Six gathered in Brussels' Palais des Congrès in mid-December to haggle over the complicated terms of the agreement...
...little background or experience for the task of nation-building. Yet they walk onto the world stage with uncommon self-assurance. A Patrice Lumumba, onetime postal clerk and jailbird in the Congo, debates Congolese independence on even terms with the skilled ministers of Belgium in Brussels' Palais des Congrès. Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika enraptures sophisticated U.S. audiences on a coast-to-coast lecture tour. Kenya's Tom Mboya, 29, who used to be courted only by English left-wingers, now holds forth suavely as honor guest in the private dining rooms of London's largest...
...hour, lean, pale Admiral André Marquis and grim Admiral Jean Marie Abrial had been waiting in the dock. The public that jammed the somber, oak-paneled Salle des Congrés at Versailles-where the High Court has been trying Vichy officials-had been buzzing with impatience. Since 2 p.m. the Court had been ready to proceed with Admirals Marquis and Abrial, accused of conspiring to keep the French Navy out of Allied hands in 1942.* But eleven of the 24 deputies on the jury panel had not appeared...