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...return to Belgium the brouhaha about Prince Albert's marriage showed signs of dying down. At issue was the fact that if Pope John XXIII performed the marriage at the Vatican, there could be no civil ceremony first, as Belgian law requires. Reason: since the Vatican is a sovereign state, it considers its own service to have civil status as well. "In a gesture of particular solicitude toward Belgium." the Pope last week helped to pacify the situation by agreeing that young Albert and Paola should be married in Brussels instead of in the Vatican...
...Sabena and West Germany's Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup-like "EMNID" Institute were anxious to see Germany remain a sovereign state; the solid majority (52%) favored membership in a European union...
...European organization, economic or political. But his government has scrupulously carried out all its Common Market Treaty obligations, and his ministers insist that they are not "anti-European," but in favor of something called "cooperative unity" the hammering out of common European policies in negotiations between fully sovereign governments...
Appointed last week as Deputy Secretary of Defense: Navy Secretary Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr. His record...
...public business stepped an alumnus of the solidly schooled fraternity of bankers and lawyers that produced such topflight governmental figures as Dulles, McCloy and Dillon, Forrestal and Lovett. To succeed the late Donald Quarles as Deputy Secretary of Defense, President Eisenhower last week named Navy Secretary Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, longtime Philadelphia investment banker (see box). In a rare (at least this year) burst of nonpartisan confidence, the Senate Armed Services Committee waived its usual lengthy questioning, unanimously approved him. Gates, said Democratic Chairman Richard Russell, was "admirably qualified." What made Russell's words even more meaningful...