Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such an operetta was The Dollar Princess (1907) which, sensitive to the march of history, turned its back on gypsies and archdukes and instead examined the American millionaire. Today, few people remember it except music publishers, sentimentalists, and the Russians, who last week began adapting The Dollar Princess for their own devices...
Clarin was forced to take the plane back to Brussels. There, according to the plan, the authorities were supposed to send him back to London, and London back again to Brussels, so that he would dramatically shuttle back & forth until the world got the point (whatever the point was). But the Belgians did not stick to the scenario and put Clarin in the red brick prison known in Brussels as the Little Castle. For two weeks, the world citizen stayed in a cell together with two dozen common drunks...
...Back to the Envelopes. At length, Fellow Citizens Cameron and Allanbrook rode to the rescue, decided to picket the prison. But in Belgium picketing is illegal in certain out-of-bounds areas, and the Little Castle was out of bounds, all right. The rescuers, however, found that the law said nothing against demonstrations on canals. Next day, in a rubber dinghy, Ewan set out on the Canal de Charleroi, right next to the prison. Through a megaphone of rolled newspapers, he shouted that Clarin should be freed...
...solve this problem," said the bartender, "would be for the King to abdicate and let his son Baudouin come back and be King. We hear young Baudouin isn't too bright, but who the hell wants a bright King? Only it looks as if it isn't going to happen because our King is a stubborn, bitter...
...Fruits & Flowers." Not only in Le Pot but all over Belgium, people were excitedly thrashing out the question of whether the King-tall, blond Leopold-Philippe -Charles -Albert -Meinrad -Huber-tus-Marie-Miguel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, otherwise known as Leopold III-should come back from exile to resume the throne. It is the overriding issue in the June 26 elections, and by last week the campaign was hot and ferocious. The Christian Social Party (Catholic) favored Leopold's return. The Socialists and Communists were against it. Labor threatened a general strike if Leopold returned...