Thursday, October 21, 2010

Prince de Ligne back from Europe

October 22, 1928

Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgian Ambassador to the United States, returned today with his wife and their two daughters, on the Red Star Liner Belgenland.   The ambassador said he had "enjoyed his three months vacation in Europe very much, but was glad to return to America," according to a report in the New York Times.

He and his family spent two months, and one month in Belgium, and "found both prosperous."
"I met the King and Queen of Belgium, and they were very pleased with their trip to the Belgian Congo and much interested in what they saw there. 

Prince Albert said that the Belgian government was about to appoint a Consul General for New York, "as commerce was increasingly steadily between that country and the United States."

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