BELGIUM: Shots at H. R. H,?

The black-gowned judge of the Brabant Court of Assizes sat in his Brussels courthouse last week to try one Fernando de Rosa charged with attempting to assassinate Crown Prince Umberto of Italy during H. R. H.'s visite de fiancallies to his present wife Princess Mane Jose of Belgium last year (TIME, Nov. 4).

During the visit, while sound cameras buzzed expectantly, Prince Umberto had arrived at the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier to lay a wreath. Pistol Man de Rosa wiggled his way through surrounding guards, fired...

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