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...Agamemnon's captain and first officer moved into second-class quarters to make room for the Greek King and Queen. The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg parked her duds in the chief engineer's bunk. Ex-King Michael of Rumania and his honey-haired wife Anne were berthed in a double stateroom...
Numbering nearly 90 in all, they were representatives of the present ruling houses of Greece, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark and Sweden; disinherited princelings from Italy, France, Spain, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria; dynastic relics from kingdoms whose thrones had long since ceased to exist: Bourbon-Parmas, Mecklenburgs, Schaumburg-Lippes, Hesses, Thurn und Taxis, and Hohenlohe-Langenburgs...
Next morning, facing the Foreign Ministers of Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in the Belgian Foreign Ministry, Mendes began: "I could have put EDC as it stood to a vote in the National Assembly, but I am convinced it would have failed. The fact that I have re-examined the problem . . . proves, I hope, that I am a European and a partisan of European union...
...five: West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg. All have ratified except Italy and France, and Italy will certainly ratify if France does...
...naturally into American cities, whose real monuments, perhaps, are their practical, restlessly growing buildings; the capital's deliberate bronze and marble grandeur is not part of American life in the same sense that St. Peter's Square with its gossiping Roman housewives or Paris' Luxembourg Gardens with its baby carriages are part of Europe's. Most of Washington's open-air sculptures, such as Begni del Piatta's baroque memorial on the Potomac (opposite), are just handsome. A handful, such as Augustus Saint-Gaudens' quiet Grief (p. 72), merit long study. What Saint...