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Last Saturday Leopold flew back to Belgium in a military transport plane escorted by eight Gloster jet fighters. He brought with him his two sons, 19-year-old Prince Baudouin and 16-year-old Albert, but he had left his wife, the beautiful Mary Liliane, in Switzerland. He wore the khaki uniform of a lieutenant general of the Belgian army. As he stepped out of the plane at Evere airport near Brussels at 7:20 a.m., he stood rigidly at attention while a band played the Belgian national anthem, La Brabanqonne...
Moderates who had hoped that the King would clear the air by abdicating in favor of Prince Baudouin were disappointed. The broadcast had the tone of a king who wanted to be a king...
...resume the throne and assume again his full constitutional powers. 2. Another plebiscite be held. 3. He abdicate in favor of his son, Prince Baudouin. 4. He return to the throne and then temporarily cede his powers to his son. 5. The monarchy be abandoned in favor of a Republican form of government...
Belgium's royal question became last week a question of the royal word. Exiled King Leopold had agreed, if he were allowed to return to Brussels, to transfer the throne temporarily to his son Prince Baudouin. This was acceptable to anti-Leopoldist Socialists and Liberals, if Leopold would guarantee not to interfere with Baudouin's regency. Some suggested that the monarch might stay in the Belgian countryside and devote himself to golf; others proposed the Congo. Then from Switzerland Leopold himself cut in huffily: "It is not necessary that I be asked for guarantees, which can add nothing...
...Much or Too Little? In the meantime, while Baudouin ruled as Lieutenant General of the Realm, Leopold would "make contact with all levels of opinion and bring back peace . . ." The temporary delegation of power to Baudouin would end, Leopold suggested, "with the accord of the government and at the moment which I shall consider to conform with the interests of the nation...