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...Focus. The Council of Foreign Ministers' opening session (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) marked the return of Europe's political life. London embassies carried a heavy traffic of emissaries: the Greek Regent, Archbishop Damaskinos; French Socialism's aging Leon Blum; the Czech Premier, soft-spoken Zdenek Fierlinger; Britain's ambassadors and ministers to Near and Middle East countries...
Princess Elizabeth of England was unofficially engaged to two foreign princes -according to rumors in each prince's country. Within eleven days Buckingham Palace denied that she was about to marry either 41-year-old Prince Regent Charles of Belgium, or 24-year-old Prince Philip of Greece...
...Athens Regent Archbishop Damaskinos met attack with counterattack. For Greece he claimed the Epirus section of southern Albania, where "many of our people are suffering persecution" under Albania's Premier Enver Hoxha. Hoxha is believed to have somewhat the same relation to Marshal Tito that Tito has to the Kremlin...
...ticklish spots before, has never distinguished himself but has kept out of trouble. He was in Belgrade when the Germans strode in. While he did not spot in advance the rise of Marshal Tito, he had the sagacity to back youthful King Peter in the uprising against the discredited regent, Prince Paul. Before and after Belgrade, he represented the U.S. in South America (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, etc.). He speaks Spanish and French, no Polish...
...suffering under the German occupation; 3) thereby become the son-in-law of a rich Belgian industrialist about to face a charge of collaboration with the enemy. There was no expressed opposition to the King's eldest son, Prince Baudouin, 14, whom Leopold's younger brother, Prince Regent Charles, was training for the pleasures of kingship...