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Show STRONG mm SIEESE 1 1 ANDORRA? SHALL ODORIFEROUS TRIBUTE TO BISHOP BE REDUCED?) 1 . By NKA Service 1 ANDORRA. Oct 23. A piece of cheese threatens to disrupt the peace Of Andorra, smallest and oldest repub- I ; lie in the world Neither the age nor the. fragrance of the cheese has anything to do with It, lt'v 1 he quantli The question is this hail the Bishop Bish-op 0 Urgel be allowed si3 seml-annu-I al tribute two cheeses, as formerly, or I only one cheese? Political strife and schism revolve around these cheeses which are sl feet In circumference The "two-cheese party Insists that the Bishop of (Jrgel be satisfied with the ancient custom, which, according to the "Acle of Parcagc" of 1288 the Magna I'harta of Andorra. decreed that he should receive In addition to his salary of 460 francs, two large j chooses and two hams twice a year I Now comes the cry for government cconom and the birth of the "one-1 cheese party." These people believe cheese party : These people believe that tho bishop has been tasting too highly of the joys of Ufe; that In this! area of the high cost of living, one cheepe should suffice for one man's needs. The bishop re-fuses to say what his cheese needs are. nor will he comment ill ' T n his annual pheese capacity, lie going to let the p.-., pie .,C, 1,. n,i while they are deciding, this little republic re-public of 175 square miles, perched high in the Pyrenees mountains, (a far mors disturbed than they were during I the world war. |