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...principals (during a transatlantic jet flight?) in a spirit of reckless unity. Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia and directed by Italy's Damiano Damiani, the film stars the U.S.'s durable Bette Davis, Germany's Horst Buchholz and Belgium's Catherine Spaak. It is chiefly notable for the fun of watching Davis breast the New Wave plot with bitchy authority...
...Prince Carlos and The Netherlands' Princess Irene, as well as the Spanish birth of Belgium's Queen Fabiola, to woo the Low Countries. Nothing could shake the bitter Socialist Francophobes of Belgium and Italy. "The Belgian government can never accept this Spain," snapped Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, though he did not exclude bilateral trade agreements with Common Market nations. Italy's Ambassador Antonio Venturini made it plain that his government's apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) could never brook an apertura a Franco...
...crowd of swinging, singing diplomats and politicians filled Leopoldville's Manhattan Bar last week as the Congo's famed O.K. Jazz Band serenaded the honored guest with its improvised Spaak Cha Cha. As the first member of the Belgian government to visit the Congo since his country prematurely and disastrously thrust its former colony into independence, Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak might have expected far harsher words of welcome...
...Dash of Sweetener. Last August negotiations over the contentieux broke down, and Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula flew home from Brussels in a jet-propelled snit. His mood was not improved when the Belgians, three months later, failed in a move to ease him out of office. Papa Spaak's visit last week was aimed at renewing the negotiations. Long a friend of Adoula's central government, Spaak had opposed the Belgian conservatives who backed Katanga's secession...
After four days of secret sessions, the two men emerged beaming. "The contentieux are now behind us," Adoula announced. Spaak had recognized the Congolese government's claim to the stock portfolio but left vague the question of its future management. On the question of the public debt, Adoula agreed to pay; Spaak offered a sweetener of $20 million in commercial credit to Adoula's near-bankrupt government, plus another $3.6 million for development of a Congolese cotton industry...