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Britain's Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ernest Davies, who has been tarrying in Paris at the Council of Foreign Ministers session hamstrung by Russia's Andrei Gromyko, got a request from his six-year-old daughter in London: "If you are coming home on Saturday will you bring Mr. Gromyko cors I love him and think he looks very nice . . . Love Sally."
Social Notes
Home from the hospital, Kelly and Judy Stewart, twin daughters born last month to Gloria Hatrick McLean Stewart and James Stewart, Hollywood's most eligible bachelor until he married at 41, joined their parents and Mrs. Stewart's two sons by her previous marriage, Ronald and Michael, for a traditional movieland rite: the first family publicity stills.
The first big party for staffers from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe was held by British Field Marshal Montgomery on the lawn before the 17th Century castle of Courances near Fontainebleau. Among the guests who sipped drinks à I'anglaise (lukewarm and weak) and chatted with the host: General & Mrs. Eisenhower.
In Greenwich, England, somebody swiped the seven-inch, diamond-studded headdress presented to Admiral Lord Nelson in 1798 by Sultan Selim III of Turkey to commemorate Britain's victory over Napoleon in the battle of the Nile.
Somehow, a copy of Le Drapeau Rouge, Belgium's Communist sheet, turned up on the back seat of the capitalistic Cadillac used by Margaret Truman during her stay in Brussels. In the absence of a better explanation, a U.S. diplomatic aide hurriedly gave a diplomatic one: "Everybody keeps informed on what the enemy is doing."
King Leopold III, storm center of Belgian politics since his surrender to the Germans in World War II, announced that he was giving up his throne next month, two months ahead of the promised date. Then His Majesty, with his commoner wife, the Princess de Rethy, departed for a two-week vacation at the French Riviera. After the coronation of Leopold's eldest son July 17, Belgium's new monarch will be Baudouin I.