Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both are young, personable, Roman Catholic. Many an inspired despatch has linked their names, praised her 'cello playing, his dexterity at the wheel of a roaring motor, her welfare work among Belgian babies, his dashing career as an Italian colonel. She met him first in Rome when she was only eleven, while spike-helmeted Germans were trampling her own Brussels. Last week he came with a suite of 31 Italian nobles to seek her hand. Only a bullet was needed to make completely romantic the engagement, officially proclaimed at Brussels, of Marie Jose, third child and only daughter...
Died. Leon Delacroix, onetime (1919-20) Belgian prime minister; at Baden-Baden, Germany; of heart disease...
Certainly there was nothing spectacular last week in the wilted mien of Belgian Banker Leon Delacroix as he went up to bed from the busy ballroom well after midnight. Nearly all the European delegates looked tired as spaniels. Distinguished M. Delacroix affects smartly upturned moustaches. Now they drooped. As he disrobed, the onetime Prime Minister of Belgium and the only original member of the Reparations Commission who remained a member last week sighed to Mme Delacroix, "Hélas, I am not so young...
...ballroom next morning there were eulogies. Cried Banker Delacroix's colleague, Belgian Delegate Louis Franck, "He died like a soldier on the field of battle, but more happily than a soldier, for he fell not in cruel struggle but in the service both of his country and mankind!" Other delegates were as meaninglessly effusive. Then spoke blunt Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, famed President of the Reichsbank. Recalling the hate-pregnant past, when Belgium's Delacroix came to Berlin directly after the War as a trustee for German railway bonds and a mem ber of the commission which revised...
...reporters Architect Warren wrathfully snorted: "The greater share of the money Mr. Hoover sent consisted of the residue of the Belgian Relief Fund, which by the will of the donors already belonged to the Belgian people...