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Three magistrates of Brussels reversed a German-enforced incorporation of the town's suburbs in a Greater Antwerp. The Germans had asked for a deferment; when the request was ignored, the judges were arrested. Belgium's judiciary, as it had done 25 years ago,* used the only weapon it had, walked out of the courts in protest...
Until recently, James Ensor kept open his father's little Ostend souvenir shop, did an average business of 35 francs a day. Before the war the painter was heavily represented in the museums of Antwerp, Brussels, Dresden and Vienna, and not at all in the museums of England, where he held his first British exhibition...
...there are at least two important Ensors: his Tribulation of St. Anthony (1887), thrown out of the Cologne Museum by the Nazis as being "too modern," is now owned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; his Intrigue (1890), owned by the Royal Museum of Antwerp, is in the Museum of Modern Art's safekeeping...
...street in civilian clothes. A Nazi cop hove in sight. Artist Hélion immediately went up to him and asked him the time. Asked the cop: "What are you doing in a forbidden area?" Said Hélion: "I'm a worker imported from Antwerp." He added: "Where can I get a decent glass of beer?" The cop directed him to his favorite bar. With German money obtained from secret sources Hélion got to Berlin. There, Hélion spent most of the day in Berlin's largest department store...
CENTER OF THE WEB-Katharine Roberts -Crime Club ($2). A Nazi agent, captured on his way to Belgium, yields secrets that enable a British Intelligence officer to penetrate the inner spy circles of Antwerp, where he charms, obfuscates and finally defeats the dreaded Fraulein Doktor. Spy-stuff at its best...