Foreign Ministers, perennially harassed characters, often wish they could be in two places at once. The Netherlands last week did its best to make the trick possible. When Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees formed a new government, after a 65-day cabinet crisis, he appointed not one but two Foreign Ministers. No. 1: Johan Beyen, 55, former executive of a soap company and a political independent. No. 2: Career Diplomat Joseph Luns, 41, a member of the Catholic Party. The dual appointment had a political reason (the Catholics were determined to have the Foreign Minister's post), but it also had...
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