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Retiring from the Navy in 1946, Kirk was invited into the diplomatic service. He served first as concurrent Ambassador to Belgium and Minister to Luxembourg, then went to the Soviet Union. Early this year, on the strength of his Belgian contacts, Kirk was pressed into special service. He flew to Brussels to persuade officials of the Belgian combine controlling the Congo's giant mining enterprises to accept the proposal for a strong central government in the Congo rather than a powerful Katanga under Moise Tshombe. Recalling that service, the Administration asked aging Alan Kirk to return to Government work...
Ogled Oligarch. Juliana's top-ranking guests were Queen Elizabeth, one of the world's richest women.* and the Shah of Iran, whose pretty young Empress Farah was the week's most ogled oligarch. The other reigning monarchs on hand: Norway's King Olav V, Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte, and King Baudouin of the Belgians, who arrived a day late in order to spare Queen Fabiola, who is reportedly pregnant, the full rigors of a royal wingding...
...Europe. But Common Market officials in Brussels are sure that the Kremlin will eventually have to accept the inevitable; after 15 years, Russian trade officials finally show signs of giving in on a similar issue and will probably soon be dealing with Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg as Benelux, not as three separate nations. For Moscow, that is a concession to reality...
...tory is only time. The news last week apparently brought little reason for cheer. Moslem and French blood mingled in the gutters of Algiers. In East Germany Volkspolizoi machine-gunned an official U.S. automobile. In Geneva, the 17-nation Disarmament Conference dragged on to ward deadlock, and in Luxembourg the six Common Market foreign ministers broke up bickering because France stubbornly opposed plans for West Europe's political integration. But in time, history might well conclude that all these were minor disturbances - or even positive steps - in one of the century's most important events : the emergence...
...Geneva, despite some signs and more talk of U.S. -British differences, the two nations actually worked in the closest unity; Britain's Lord Home was being at least as tough on Berlin as Secretary of State Dean Rusk. At Luxembourg, no one believed that De Gaulle or any other power could in the long run prevent West ern European unification. As a prominent politician once put it: "Europe takes three steps forward then one step back, but we arrive." And in Algeria the French army hit hard at the S.A.O., a fact that almost certainly meant the terrorist organization...