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Hidden in a shadowy corner of the Luxembourg Gardens-where children, lovers and park bench sages still hold pre-eminence over visiting statesmen-stands a large, Government-owned bee colony. Its keeper, a white-bearded octogenarian named Ernest Baudu, lectures any stray stroller who will listen on the facts of life, both apiarian and human. "Within each hive all bees are devoted to each other. But when a tired bee drops into a foreign hive," he sighs, "he is immediately asked for his passport. Often, in times of scarcity, a group of bees swoops on a richer hive. War ensues...
...raised once more. Last month Pope Pius urged Christian principles upon the peacemakers Last week Protestant leaders of eight nations, in London for a four-day meeting of the World Council of Churches, reiterated the word from Rome, called for a joining of Protestant and Catholic hands to let statesmen know the strength and power of the Christian faith...
British troops searched for bodies in the wreck of Jerusalem's King David Hotel where 80 had died in a Zionist terrorist explosion. British statesmen in London groped for something solid in the rubble of their Palestine policy. World sympathy for Zionism, though not yet a ruin, was beginning to crumble. The Arabs, who seemed to profit most by last week's events in the Holy Land, sat tight...
...Atom (Mon. 11:15 p.m., CBS). A nightly series on the possibilities of atomic power, bringing scientists, engineers, military leaders and statesmen to the microphone...
Strangely enough, the government that tied Catholics and Socialists together got its start through the Russians. At Easter-time 1945, when the Russians were driving into Austria, Socialist Sage Dr. Karl Renner, one of the country's few surviving elder statesmen, found himself in Gloggnitz, a small town 40 miles from Vienna. The Red Army entered the town, and all Easter Sunday and Monday, Dr. Renner waited for something interesting to happen. Nothing did. Bored, Renner set out on Tuesday for a stroll along Gloggnitz' Main Street. Relates Renner with massive calm: "After a while, I came upon...