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...Leopold III, who had returned to the throne the week before. More than half a million workers walked out in a general strike called by Paul-Henri Spaak's Socialist Party. All Belgian steel mills, most coal mines and many industrial plants were closed. The great port of Antwerp was dead. Airline flights into and out of the country were canceled. Sabotage hindered railroad traffic and communications were interrupted. Electric power was cut off in many places...
...catch its share of the swarms of postwar tourists, the proud city of Antwerp (pop. 266,636) has been delving into its rich old attic and displaying its heirlooms-the work of generations of Flemish craftsmen and painters. This summer Antwerp is trying something...
...burgomaster and aldermen got the idea last year when they went to see a modern sculpture show in The Netherlands' Arnhem (pop. 103,666) and came away determined to beat the Dutch. They vowed that it would be "necessary to the renown of Antwerp to do better than is done elsewhere...
...Antwerp took no official position, one way or another, on the sculpture in its big show. But the city fathers could read the press reviews with pride and pleasure. Acknowledged Brussels' Le Peuple: "Antwerp . . . never does things halfway . . . Honor to the city of Antwerp...
...life has been made happier for having his picture in TIME. In June, 1947 your Medicine department published one of our Foster Parents' photographs of a little Belgian girl, Maria Michiels, who had lost an eye and suffered severe injuries when a V-2 hit her home in Antwerp. A veteran of the 13th Port, an American Army unit which operated Antwerp's port after the invasion, saw the picture in TIME and thought that he recognized the girl. He made some inquiries and established the fact that she was indeed the child saved from her burning home...