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Show W :zr.!!LJRsJStatpsturned...to - rebuilding the n areas of the war-tor- baked beans, apple pie,-- - Cokes and - she sent 1 etters tojhe ;boys mothers. One of her treasures is a box of more world. One of those7 areas was the" . little Duchy of Luxembourg, .whose than 1,000 thank-yo- u notes she re999 square miles of territory were ceived in reply. battered the N&iis in the badly "by As the months passed, LuxemBattle of the Bulge. bourg made real progress. With U.S. For years the U.S. ambassador to help, the1 restoration of her farms Belgium had also handled affairs and factories was completed. And with Luxembourg. But for all its the little country now makes some six million tons of steel and pig iron tiny size, Luxembourg was important It ranked No. 4 among the steel a year, about 50 percent more than producers of Western Europe, No. 7 before the war, and ten times fts in the world. But there was some much steel per capita as the United States produces! sentiment. It is a Something needed to be done to political trasecure Luxembourg's position among dition for the incoming party to the free nations. In 1949 President make a clean sweep of diplomatic Truman decided to nominate Perle posts abroad, filling them with its Mesta to be the first U.S. Minister to own favorite sons and daughters. the Grand Duchy. "It was a fillip to Therefore, it's regarded as a tribute Luxembourg's pride that America to the job Mrs. Mesta did that she decided the quiet little country merwas one of the last Democratic inited a minister at all, and an added cumbents to be removed ? by the compliment to receive a close friend Republican administration. of President Truman." - laslo tii Soviet Ualoa "Ma4ame Minister" Wight a To the echo of the final gown in Paris for her presentation to Luxembourg's salute to the "Madame Minister," Grand Duchess Charlotte and headed Mrs. Mesta left Luxembourg in 1953. for her new assignment. She found, Soon afterward she became the first the little land to be a charming counAmerican to take advantage of try of storybook castles and lovely, slightly easier travel regulations in wooded valleys. the Soviet Union, embarking on a th Mrs. Mesta, like the new mistress tour that carried' her of any house, decided to redecorate. miles. 12,000 Her legation residence was done The Reds wanted to impress Mrs. over in striped upholstery and flowMesta, of course, with the blessings ered drapes. of life under Communism. But she She was at her desk .by 9 every saw through all their deceptions and came back to say that she'd been morning. And when she visited Luxembourg's iron mines and steel mills, "shocked" by conditions in the Soshe soon proved to the workers that viet Union and that "the free world she knew what they were talking is the only place to live." . about and understood their probBack in the United States, Mrs. lems. By the time Minister Mesta Mesta's tour provided ammunition got around to giving her first party, for a number of lectures whose fees one of the guests declared, "Your went to help foreign students who President couldn't have sent us a wished to study here. And today the nicer present" former minister continues to fill lecMrs. Mesta once told a friend: "I ture engagements, telling of her get the same stimulation out of many experiences abroad. She also continues to give splashy parties that you do out of whisky." But despite her reputation as a shindigs at her Washington home, lavish hostess, she is a Christian the Sheraton-Par- k Hotel. At one of Scientist who neither drinks nor the biggest parties recently, 750 smokes. But she loves a snappy guests raised toasts to members of the press. : game of poker or canasta. Mrs. Mesta says that being a Since the hotel is also the resifemale diplomat proved no handicap. dence of many members of Congress She had both the business and social and the Eisenhower administration, experience to put her at confident Mrs. Mesta can keep in close touch ease in her new post, and she has with political developments. She the wonderful knack of making isn't making any predictions on 1956, others feel comfortable, too. but in general she's "very optimistic." "I think President Eisenhower has Friead of the mea la service the sympathies of the people," she Besides giving fancy receptions for declares. Then she adds ' with a public officials and leading citizens, twinkle: "And now that he's being she began holding monthly "G.I. advised by the Democratic leaderparties" for all servicemen who hapship in both houses of Congress, we pened to be in town. 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Moistened or d, Rich dry. it has a taste and texture dogs love. in meat protein, economical Homogenized Gaines Meal gives your dog a wealth of digestible pit? every food element known to help keep him in the Prime of Life -healthy, happy and strong the way you want him always! nourishment-includi- ng rm , iS 0 " a rftooocr or ctNCdAi MARCH 27, 1955 rooos FAMILY lTrSN WEEKLY t" MAGAZINE ' |