Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic Royalist newspaper, Het Volk, which had stood gamely by him during the pre-abdication days, but now grumbled that Cabinet ministers were being humiliated and sabotaged by "someone" at the royal court. Last week Leopold summoned Premier Eyskens to Laeken palace, began by blustering that the press attack on him "has to stop!" ended by saying resignedly that "I will leave Laeken; you must find me another place to live." Leopold's preference: the 18th century Villa Belvedere, just across the street from Laeken, once (under the second Leopold) occupied by royal mistresses. The government's countersuggestion...
...Responsible." Alarmed by press accounts of shocking conditions in the regrouped centers, De Gaulle's delegate general in Algeria, Paul Delouvrier, has ordered a halt to further regrouping. Complains one French officer: "For years these people have been dying like flies. But nobody bothered to go have a look. Now that we have brought them down from the hills, we are responsible...
...decided that on the evidence available no charge can be framed against identified individuals in respect of identified illegal force used in the incident." Angrily, Labor M.P. Barbara Castle jumped to her feet to demand, "Has there been any identity parade of warders? If not, why not?" The British press, with honorable exceptions, has shown little fire about the affair, moving Paul Johnson to write heatedly in the left-wing New Statesman comparing Hola to concentration camps and British people's apathy to that of Germans under Hitler-only worse, for Germany had the excuse of press censorship...
...proposal, as leaked from the office of Finance Minister Rufo Lopez Fresquet, was so zany that the Cuban press thought somebody was pulling its leg: anyone mentioned in the Cuban social register or newspaper society pages would have to pay a tax for the honor. The bite would be $1 per mention, plus $1 for each flattering adjective. Titles of nobility would be taxed $100, and photographs $10 per column inch. For collecting the tax, the newspapers would be allowed to keep 25% of the take. Going along with the gag, Prensa Libre used up seven adjectives in describing Minister...
Back in New Brunswick, where he grew up, Britain's peppery Lord Beaverbrook put up at Fredericton's Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, spent hours right next door in the city's Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, one of his many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday...