Word: baudouin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestant Princess Margaret is considering marriage to Belgium's Roman Catholic King Baudouin, and sent Norfolk as her emissary to inform the Pope...
...diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) lawyer known as the "Little Lion," tough-minded Governor Petillon took as his authority a recent promise made by King Baudouin: "human relations have now to be tackled; economic development no longer is enough." Last month the Little Lion ordered all Congolese bars to admit Africans so long as they behave well and are properly dressed. When some owners refused to admit Negroes unless they first submitted to a medical checkup, Pétillon bluntly warned them to obey his decree...
committees. Particularly, the U.N. had deplored Belgium's refusal to allow the natives any political voice whatever. "We must be inspired by our own consciences, and our duties," said Baudouin pointedly...
...trees swarmed with black urchins and the crowds along the road shouted "Vive le Roi!" as Leopoldville welcomed young (25) King Baudouin to the Belgian Congo's steamy, metal-rich and thriving jungleland. Resplendent in white-and-gold uniform, Baudouin was the first Belgian monarch the Congo had seen since 1928, when grandfather Albert I visited a far less prosperous and bustling Congo...
Many of Leopoldville's 20,000 Belgians were not prepared in advance to be much impressed by their young king. "That infant," snapped one sun-helmeted businessman as he watched Baudouin's arrival in a Sabena DC-6 airliner. The colonists had seen too many prim, unsmiling photographs of the bespectacled King, watchfully flanked by his father, ex-King Leopold, and his purposeful stepmother. But a change seemed to have come over shy King Baudouin the moment he left Brussels. He became relaxed, friendly and informal-a man on his own. On the plane, he insisted on getting...