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...like. It was a miracle that I got out of Saigon with all my luggage." Biggest flop of her trip came when Ace Conversationalist Mesta tried for an hour to worm some pleasantries from India's Prime Minister Nehru. Sputtered the ordinarily voluble ex-U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "I never had such an interview. I talked, talked, talked and got nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Last week Konrad Adenauer and France's Premier Edgar Faure took off, in the midst of all their other perplexities, to meet in Luxembourg for an eight-hour session on how to save the Saar statute. Adenauer tried to get Faure to put off the referendum and pressure Joho into calling a Landtag election so that Saarlanders might vent their hostility on Hoffman without making the Saar statute an innocent victim of his unpopularity. But Paris and Bonn had explicitly agreed not to intervene in the Saar's decisionmaking, and so the two leaders agreed only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SAAR: Yes or No | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Hostess Mesta. On the second floor, in one of the Majestic's air-conditioned suites, was globe-circling Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, onetime Minister to Luxembourg. She never played hostess to a more difficult crowd. "One of the men," she said later, "sprayed me all over with tear gas. I went back to my own room and closed the door. It was very frightening, because stones were coming through the windows. In a few minutes they were pounding on my door and starting to make a hole in it with their knives. There was only one thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Wreck of the Majestic | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...Organization for European Economic Cooperation includes Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany. The U.S. and Canada are associated countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prosperity Round the World | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...exchange agreement was signed in 1953 by four countries, Great Britain, Denmark, Luxembourg and the Saar. Recently, it was enlarged when France, West Germany, Iceland, Ireland, and Norway added their ratifications to those of the original signers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New College Type Planned; Pact Links Europe's Exams | 6/3/1955 | See Source »

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