Word: baudouine
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...first overseas trip will probably be to Paris, for a conference with President Charles de Gaulle. No date has been set, but Quai d'Orsay officials are hoping to confirm a meeting soon after the middle of May-before the state visit of Belgium's King Baudouin to France on May 24. The Kennedy trip, say De Gaulle's aides, "is practically certain...
Weeks of negotiation lay ahead before Belgium would get a new government. In the meantime, Eyskens, tired of it all and now without major influence, would stay on as caretaker Premier at the urgent plea of King Baudouin...
...around the world. In the streets of Brussels, pro-Lumumbist demonstrators tried to march on Congolese Army recruiting centers; others, carrying banners declaring ENOUGH HUMILIATION WITHOUT REACTION, in retaliation mobbed the U.A.R. and Russian embassies. Last week the government of Premier Gaston Eyskens, a dapper economics professor, collapsed. King Baudouin dissolved Parliament and called elections for March...
...Those who knew the Premier and his unyielding tenacity predicted that he would fight it through to the bitter end. At 55, Eyskens has lost neither his native Flemish stubbornness nor his passion for cold, precise logic. The stubbornness was vividly illustrated last year when even King Baudouin was demanding his resignation after the Congo was lost; Eyskens held fast, and Baudouin gave in rather than make the squabble public. The logic emerges in the Loi Unique itself. A classic economist who left a Louvain University professorship to enter politics, Eyskens is convinced that Belgium's survival depends...
Smashed Hopes. Clearly implicit was a threat to the throne itself, for there was no provision for a King in any of the vague federation schemes being promoted. Feverishly, Baudouin himself began summoning party leaders - including the Socialists - for urgent talks on the assumption that once the labor trouble ended, demands for federation would fade...