Word: baudouine
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...Brussels' Laeken palace last week, Belgium's King Baudouin, raging at the news of the second U.N. resolution calling for Belgian withdrawal from the Congo, rounded on dapper Premier Gaston Eyskens. "This is the end," snapped Baudouin. "I demand your resignation...
...wrath, gloomy King Baudouin, 29, spoke what was in the heart and on the lips of thousands of his countrymen. "What has this government accomplished?" roared Brussels' Le Soir. "It has gone from defeat to defeat. Never in Belgium's memory has our prestige been so low." Similar outcries came from the right-wing Liberal Party, whose 21 helping votes have kept Eyskens' Social Christians in office and the Socialist Party out. Hovering ominously in the background was a growing cluster of quasi-Fascist splinter groups whose members booed Parliament itself, marched noisily through the street with...
Things were a little awkward from the very start, as young King Baudouin arrived in the Congo to celebrate and declare its independence. On the way into Leopoldville from the airport, an exuberant nationalist pressed close to his open limousine, grabbed the King's sword from beside him, and flourished it above his head before the police could move in and pommel him away. Later, as the King entered the new parliamentary chamber, where Ghanaians in togas mingled with bemedaled Western ambassadors, the Belgians shouted, "Vive le Roi!" The Congolese Assemblymen, preferring to cheer the new nation...
...protect the Congo!" said Baudouin, and formally proclaimed its independence. But New Premier Patrice Lumumba, jealous of the limelight everyone else was enjoying, took the opportunity to launch a vicious attack on the departing Belgian rulers. "Slavery was imposed on us by force!" he cried, as the King sat shocked and pale. "We have known ironies and insults. We remember the blows that we had to submit to morning, noon and night because we were Negroes!" Deeply offended, King Baudouin was ready to board his plane and return to Brussels forthwith. Only the urging from his ministers persuaded...
...Lumumba), but with Belgian help might attract enough support from among the 18 other elected parties to form a coalition government. In pursuit of this scheme, Kasavubu last week flew to Brussels to dicker with Belgium's Minister of the Congo and to call on young King Baudouin, who is scheduled to open the Congo's first Parliament at the end of the month, provided the country does not explode into bloody civil war beforehand. Watching the events in Brussels with rising anger, choleric Patrice Lumumba growled: "The Belgians prefer to give power to stooges and retain power...