Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
World Surpluses. In Italy, Japan, Belgium and Luxembourg, production has also been declining, probably less because of the U.S. dip than because of the fact that shortages have turned into surpluses around the world. Italy reached its peak production last October and Japan in December. However, Italy is expecting 1954 to be one of its better postwar years, and her trade deficit in January and February was trimmed to $149 million from $189 million a year ago. While unemployment in Japan is still low, the gloomy foreign-trade picture (1953 deficit: $313 million) has been darkened by a 20% decrease...