Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier van Zeeland, pleasantly aglow after his thumping electoral victory last fortnight over Belgium's No. 1 Fascist, Léon Degrelle (TIME, April 19), was in no mood to give anything away to the Fascists from across the Rhine. Germany is starving for raw materials; the Belgian Congo is one of the richest properties in Africa. Dr. Schacht's scheme was that Germany should buy $84,250,000 worth of Congo copper, tin and oil, pay for it within a specified time with thermometers, automobiles, safety razors, cameras, et al. One potent group in Belgium hailed this...
...Mercier, wrathfully out of his Archbishop's Palace at Malines. He not only told the Catholic voters of Belgium in a formal statement that Rexism is "a danger to the country and the Church" but he issued an advance "rebuke" to anyone who cast a blank ballot. Under Belgian law every enfranchised male must vote. Many blank ballots were expected to be cast by such Catholics as consider the Premier too innovating a New Dealer. After the Primate had spoken everyone agreed, "Degrelle hasn't a chance...
Thus the short-term, immediate result of last week's polling was never in doubt but the Belgians, essentially a long-term folk, palpitated with eagerness to see if Rexism could win enough votes to make it a coming party. At the election of last May the Rexists, offering candidates for the first time, won 11.4% of the popular vote and 21 of the 202 seats in the Belgian Chamber. In Brussels, the district contested last week, they won last May 55,500 ballots out of a total of 340,000. This spring it has been Degrelle...
...Hitler will have to be humored to the extent that there will be no more British-French-Belgian staff talks...
Definitely Hollywood's comic find of the year, Actor Gravet, who changed his name from Graavey lest "people get me mixed up with the national dish," is a 31-year-old French-Belgian, who learned his precise English at England's St. Paul's School which he attended during...