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...parties at which the guests sit around and talk quietly about business and the weather. The Grand Duchess Charlotte rarely ever mingles with her guests; at the receptions in her toylike palace, she prefers to remain secluded in a small side room. Last week Luxembourg, whose national motto is Mir welle bleiwe wat mir sin (We want to stay as we are), suspected that its social life, at least, would not long bleiwe as it was. For Mrs. Perle Mesta, famed Washington hostess and new U.S. minister to the Grand-Duchy, arrived with plump aplomb, and her ideas...
...clock one morning last week, a formal procession of Peruvians turned into the broad, tree-lined Alameda of Chile's capital city, Santiago. It was Peru's Independence Day, and the procession, headed by well-groomed Ambassador Carlos Miró Quesada, drew up before the equestrian statues of Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martin, laid wreaths at the statues of Peru's (and Chile's) heroes...
Next day, they started to pour down. Santiago's newspapers carried a long and bitter communiqué from the Apristas. Ambassador Miró Quesada renewed his protest to the Chilean Foreign Ministry, then replied to the Aprista communique with a 16-point message of his own, declaring no less than six times that the Apristas were obviously Reds, since their party symbol (like that of Communism) is a five-pointed star...
...German title, Fliege mit Mir in die Heimat (Fly with me to the home-land), and a man named Franz Winkler was listed as its composer. Some thought it came from an old German folk song. Whatever its origin, it had become a D.P. song and had swung through the concentration camps after the war. Last week, Fliege mit Mir, dolled up with new lyrics and a new name, Forever and Ever, was flying near the top of the U.S. hit parade...
...desolate. But by night, scrap dealers and black marketeers crowd into such slick cellar restaurants as the Goldene Treppe (Golden Staircase), where they dine on smoked salmon and duck at $12 a meal, and into such cafés as the Allotria (Tomfoolery), where they jitterbug to Bel Mir Bist Du Schön with heavily rouged hostesses known in Germany as Animierdamen-"animation ladies...