Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Austrian Pretender Archduke ("Kaiser") Otto slipped out of his Belgian refuge for an unknown destination, and Austrian Monarchists prayerfully recalled: "Our Kaiser Otto has said 'if my Empire seems about to fall to the Nazis, I will be in Vienna before Hitler...
Smiling pinkly, the only living ex-President of the U. S. reached Brussels last week on his first visit to Europe in nearly 20 years. Every Belgian paper, from Communist to Rexist, dropped its bickering to honor Herbert Clark Hoover, Belgium's Wartime Relief Administrator, with fulsome editorials. Every member of the Chamber of Representatives rose in his seat at word that Herbert Hoover had crossed the frontier. Dinners and receptions were held by the Foreign Office, the University of Louvain, the College of Burgomasters and Aldermen. The Belgian Government issued a new stamp, bearing the portrait...
...Young Belgians who never knew the War have especially good cause to be grateful for Herbert Hoover. The difference between the generosity of thousands of donors and what cautious Administrator Hoover considered the real need of Wartime Belgians left the Belgian Relief Fund with a whopping surplus of $25,000,000 when the books were closed in 1919. This was split three ways: $9,000,000 to rebuild Belgium universities, $6,000,000 for a foundation for scientific research, $10,000,000 for exchange scholarships between Belgium...
Most influential among Belgian Catholic editors, Victor Jourdain was stunned by the tragic fallacy of his policy of pacifism when Belgium was overrun. Soured, the old man vowed never to give the Germans the satisfaction of a silent opposition. He built a trapdoor to his attic, began translating smuggled copies of London papers. Through an intermediary who used a false name, Victor Jourdain supplied money to build up a staff of patriotic priests and laymen for gathering articles and distributing 20,000 copies of Free Belgium, taunting the German occupants and preaching patriotic passive resistance. The stories, written on thin...
...Premier Paul van Zeeland of Belgium resigned because (1 he no longer had the confidence of King Leopold, 2 his own party, the Catholic Centre, deserted him, 3 his known sympathy for German Nazi methods caused the Belgian democratic press to attack him heatedly, 4 the Rexist press attacked him for receiving pay from the Bank of Belgium after becoming Premier, 5 he was unable to balance the national budget after repeated efforts...