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...long ago I heard from another TIME-reader who was also in the throes of writing a book. She is Mrs. Willa Thompson Trierweiler, and she had just returned to her home in Echternach, Luxembourg, after a long stay in a Swiss hospital, when she wrote me. She found a stack of copies of TIME awaiting her, and proceeded to go through them. One article that caught her attention was the letter I wrote to you about TIME'S Quebec correspondent, Roger Lemelin (TIME, Aug. 18), and she was struck by the number of ways in which his experiences...
...France, Britain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany and Denmark. Next year the U.S., Canada, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina and Australia are expected to join. Last week Japan (with more than 1,000,000 judo athletes) joined the federation and Risei Kano, son of judo's founder, became the new president. *In judo hierarchy, contestants are graded by an intricate system. Novices wear white belts. Then, through about two years' training, the novice judoka progresses through yellow, orange, green, blue and brown belts. From brown to the coveted black takes another year. There are ten grades...
...hardheaded Dutch, who learned in World War II that they cannot exist without allies, are already closely bound by common tariffs with Belgium and Luxembourg in Benelux; with three other nations (Italy, France and Germany) in the common iron & steel pool of the Schuman Plan, and in the projected European Army; with all these nations, and eight more besides, in the mutual defense guarantees of NATO. By its latest action, The Netherlands went farther than any nation has before to prepare itself for the rights & duties of a United States of Europe, should that day ever come...
...Harry Truman's Minister to Luxembourg, Perle Mesta kept old friendships warm on both sides of the political fence. Her latchkey was always out for her good friends Ike & Mamie Eisenhower, who frequently dropped over to get away from the routine at SHAPE. Last week a Washington reporter asked Minister Mesta what she would be doing the day after inauguration. Replied Perle hopefully: "I now don't know what I'll be doing. I love Luxembourg, though. I just love Luxembourg. I've had lots of offers . . . but right now all I can think about...
Engaged. Princess Josephine Charlotte, 25, sister of Baudouin, King of the Belgians, eldest child of ex-King Leopold III and the late Queen Astrid; and Grand Duke Jean, 31, heir to the throne of Luxembourg; in Brussels...