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LUXEMBOURG: Friend in Need

In the large, luxurious legation of Luxembourg in Washington one day last week Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Charlotte and her dashing consort Prince Felix gave a reception. Guests were Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Government officials, other bigwigs. But the guest of honor was a stocky, middle-aged man with a long face and a white-toothed smile who has never held any diplomatic post above that of charge d'affaires: Alabama-born George Platt Waller, for ten years consul and charge d'affaires in Luxembourg.

In the capital of the gill-sized Grand Duchy, where he was dean of the diplomatic corps, George Waller lived...

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