Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defense Minister Comte Charles M. P. A. de Broqueville was speaking last week in Brussels before the Belgian Chamber. There were those before him who remembered that he spoke, in 1912, as Premier, to much the same effect. He was heeded then, and Belgium embarked (1913) upon a five-year program of armament. But the Germans came within a year...
Returning to the Belgian Chamber, what seemed to be the true attitude of the Belgian Government, as opposed to the professionally alarmist views of the War Minister...
...Vandervelde is the outstanding Socialist of Belgium?and the Belgian Socialist party slightly outnumbers any other. He was about to speak for the laboring class. More, he would speak as one of the authors of Locarno, as the Belgian representative on the Council of the League, as the man who has attended more international conferences for peace than any other living Belgian statesman...
...sooner were these words telegraphed to Paris than the "inspired" French press launched a thoroughgoing preparedness scare (see FRANCE). It almost seemed that Parisian editors must have had their editorials ready in advance. Perhaps they had. The relations between the French and Belgian Governments are so close that what is going to be said by the Government at Brussels is often known in advance and sometimes dictated by the Government at Paris. What is the foreign policy of Belgium...
...Majesty Albert I, King of the Belgians, purchased last week his seventh personal motorcycle. These brittle, popping steeds are perhaps his most dangerous vice. More than once Belgian policemen have arrested a speeding motorcyclist (TIME, Aug. 16) only to let him go, abashed, when they found he was their King. For His Majesty a 200-mile motorcycle sprint is only a fair day's run-and 200 miles approximately suffice to cross Belgium from one side to the other in any direction. Beloved, fearless, King Albert of the Belgians usually motorcycles completely unattended. His newest mount is a recently...