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Party-giving Perle Mesta arrived in Moscow for a visit to the Soviet Union. Asked her profession by a Russian customs inspector, the ex-Minister to Luxembourg replied: "I have none...
...from 6? to around 22?, and is rivaling the Swiss franc for stability. Italy's lira, which sank as low as 915 to the dollar during 1948's fears of Communist election victories, is almost up to the official rate (625). The Benelux nations-Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg-established such a good postwar export trade that their stable currencies did not even tremble during the disastrous floods. By contrast, France, still without a Premier, was running so big a governmental and export deficit that the U.S. last week had to put up $37 million to help stabilize...
...obstacles in West Germany. The Socialist opposition has started a court action to outlaw the treaties on the ground that the Bonn constitution makes no provision for rearmament. Moreover, before a single German soldier can pick up his gun, the other five signatories (France, Italy, Belgium. The Netherlands, Luxembourg) must ratify. So far none...
...iron was French, the limestone Belgian, the coke came from Holland and Germany. Yet the stream of molten metal, tapped last week by Italian workmen in the Luxembourg town of Esch, was steel that belonged to Europe-solid and symbolic evidence that the Schuman Plan dream is at last reality. Six nations, producing 20% of the world's steel, would henceforth pool their outputs, eliminate tariffs, surrender control (but not ownership) of their basic industries to a supranational High Authority, headed by a dapper Frenchman who hopes to forge not merely an industrial colossus...
Married. Princess Josephine Charlotte, 25, sister of Belgium's King Baudouin; and Crown Prince Jean, 32, heir apparent to the throne of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (pop. 300,000); in Luxembourg. The wedding, carried off in lavish, old-style pageantry in spite of rain, drew a glittering collection of guests: three kings, three queens, a grand duchess, an archduke, 22 princes, 18 princesses, and assorted lesser nobility. Royal feathers were momentarily ruffled when Princess de Rethy, commoner wife of Belgium's abdicated King Leopold III (father of the bride), got uncommonly close to the head...