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...brigandage and oppression cloaked by sanctimoniousness . . . Every agitator in Africa looks with hope to Dag Hammarskjold." In Paris the right-wing L'Aurore asked: "Do we understand that in the Congo the first objective is to evict the Belgians and the second to re-establish on his cardboard throne this astonishing Lumumba?'' Paris-Jour, echoing the feeling of those Western Europeans who see Europeans in Africa raped, robbed and murdered by what they regard as ungrateful subjects, sneered at Hammarskjold as the "chief of an international supergovernment exclusively at the service of the Afro-Asian countries that...
...club atmosphere of horsehair sofas, fireplaces, brass candelabras and rolltop desks, the shops breathe-as one historian noted appreciatively-"the fumes of privilege, of clubs, of Toryism." In keeping with the tradition that put a Savile Row uniform on Napoleon III when he mounted the throne of France, Hawes & Curtis recently finished a $900, gold-braided beauty for Thailand's King Bhumibol, as part of a 113-suit wardrobe. At Denman & Goddard's, cutters have been diligently remaking a drainpipe-trousered bohemian into the royal fashionplate that is Antony Armstrong-Jones...
...Bayreuth, Wagner's grandson Wolfgang was up. to his old tricks: stripped down, sparsely lighted productions designed to free the stern old gods of Valhalla from heavy, cardboard-shield and plaster-throne cliches. But by now, this once revolutionary style has produced some bothersome clichés of its own. The basic stage set of last week's Ring was an eight-ton, segmented concave disk looking somewhat like a huge radar antenna. In the second and fourth Rheingold scenes it was used intact, tilted toward the audience to suggest the rugged slopes of Wotan's mountain...
Married. Princess Diane of France, 20, sixth of eleven children of the Count of Paris, Bourbon pretender to the French throne; and Duke Carl, 23, the Duke of Württemberg's second son, scion of one of Europe's oldest (dating back to 1032) and wealthiest (among the holdings: 45 farms, twelve vineyards, forests totaling 45,000 acres) royal clans; in Altshausen Castle near Saulgau, Germany...
...confiscation. The U.S. put the world on notice that "the American continents are henceforth not to be considered as subject for further colonization." Further concerned that the "Holy Alliance" of Russia, Prussia and Austria might launch a war to restore newly liberated Latin American nations to the Spanish throne, Madison and Adams warned that the U.S. would view interference as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward...