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...While Belgian Catholics still smarted under defeat, Catholics in the neighboring Netherlands celebrated their restoration as the nation's biggest party. In nationwide elections for provincial councils (which do not directly affect the national government), the Catholic People's Party polled 31.5% of the vote, inching past their coalition partners in the national government, the Socialists, who gained slightly themselves, to poll 29.4%. Chief losers: the Communists, who polled only 284,284 votes, a decline...
Coolidge also said that the museum will present next month an exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings lent to Fogg by the Belgian government...
Foreign Minister Paul van Zeeland put his case before the Belgian Senate wearily but succinctly. "Can we remain isolated? No. Can we defend ourselves? No. Is NATO enough? No." What Western Europe needs, he said, is the European Army (EDC), with its projected twelve German divisions...
...Brussels, Belgium's deposed King Leopold, 52, and wife the Princess de Rethy, took a plane for Central America, where, as the official explanation went, the King will make a study of exotic jungle birds. More practical reason for the expedition: Leopold, on whom many Belgian monarchists still dote, deems it wise to be elsewhere during this April's national elections...
...peculiar in their indifference to affairs beyond their borders. When you are in Accra, it is almost impossible to discover what is happening next door in Nigeria. When you move over to Lagos, you might be on another planet from Accra. Almost no news comes out of the Belgian Congo, French Africa or Portuguese Africa. If you want to find out what is happening there, you have to go in person...