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That sentence summarized Western Europe's fear. In the French National Defense Ministry's Salle des Maréchaux, where Napoleon used to brief his marshals, the five Western European nations last week decided to set up a watch on the Rhine. Implementing the Brussels alliance (TIME, March 15), the defense ministers of Great Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg met and agreed on common measures against aggression-i:e., against a possible Russian attack. They set up "permanent international command . . . under a permanent military chairman...
...stage of the Archbishop's riding school behind Salzburg's Festspielhaus. In its place workers had put up a simple Ionic-columned portico for this year's big show: an ambitious production of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice by ambitious Conductor Herbert von Karajan (TIME, Mar...
Last year Tenor Beniamino Gigli heard María Helena, invited her to sing Mimi with him at a charity performance in the Teatro Presidente Alvear. There, talentwise Cirilo Grassi Díaz, manager of the Teatro Colón, heard her, offered her a chance at the Colón this season...
Smart old Grassi Diaz knew what he was doing. After María Helena's debut (once again she sang with Gigli), Buenos Aires newspapers broke out in a rash of praise. Said La Prensa: "A great success . . . She has a pure, generous, fresh and moving voice . . . [She] has shown rare qualities which promise a brilliant career...
...María Helena knows that early success does not always make a career. She plans to keep on studying, hopes some day to sing at La Scala or the Met. Said she last week: "I might go a long way if I don't hurry...