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Mutual Suspicion. Buyers are few, for European businessmen still have a royalist attitude toward broad public ownership by modest investors. A few Swiss chemical shares sell for $10,000 apiece, and no effort is made to split them to widen ownership. Hoping to keep out of the public eye, Belgium's biggest producers of chemicals, matches, beer and sugar do not even list their shares on the Brussels Bourse. The tra dition of secrecy is stronger than the desire to attract mattress money; European companies commonly report only the skimpiest information about profits or forthcoming products. The suspicion...
...Royalist Ambitions. Without a word to her family, Irene flew to Paris, where she joined her fiance, Spain's Prince Carlos de Borbón y Parma. Her engagement to him and her conversion to Roman Catholicism caused a constitutional crisis two months ago that was only ended by her removal from the Dutch line of succession (TIME, Feb. 14). Now, in a country precariously balanced between Protestants and Roman Catholics, the crisis flared up again when the pair flew from Paris on to Rome for an audience with Pope Paul VI. The meeting was held in secret...
...though it is a Protestant church, where such a ceremony is palpably impossible. When Juliana refused, Irene abruptly decided to stay home from a scheduled state visit to Mexico with her mother. And in further retaliation, Irene issued a public statement that she would support her fiance's royalist ambitions and Falangist politics. The Queen appeared in tears at the airport, even waited for a while, apparently in the hope that her errant daughter would change her mind, finally took off when Irene did not show up. "You can't do such a thing to your mother," muttered...
...long private sessions, Nasser vowed to withdraw his forces from Yemen, and, in return, the Saudis vowed to cut off aid to Yemen's royalist rebels. "I don't want Yemen," Nasser declared. "I don't want to endanger or control any Arab land. I want only that all Arabs should unite against the Israeli threat." So it went down the line. Only last October, Algeria and Morocco tried to redraw their disputed boundary with blood, but last week in Cairo, Morocco's King Hassan II and Algeria's ebullient Ahmed ben Bella warmly agreed...
Mussolini and Diem owe the slogan to its originator, the Royalist La Rochejaquelin, who shouted the same enjoinder-in French-to his Catholic followers during the Wars of the Vendee (1793), a vain counterrevolution against anticlerical republican revolutionaries...