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Half of Belgium last week rose against King Leopold III, who had returned to the throne the week before. More than half a million workers walked out in a general strike called by Paul-Henri Spaak's Socialist Party. All Belgian steel mills, most coal mines and many industrial plants were closed. The great port of Antwerp was dead. Airline flights into and out of the country were canceled. Sabotage hindered railroad traffic and communications were interrupted. Electric power was cut off in many places...
When the Social Christians called for a vote, 139 Socialists, 38 Liberals and ten Communists walked out of the Belgian Parliament. The vote was 198 to 0 for the recall of Leopold...
...military transport plane escorted by eight Gloster jet fighters. He brought with him his two sons, 19-year-old Prince Baudouin and 16-year-old Albert, but he had left his wife, the beautiful Mary Liliane, in Switzerland. He wore the khaki uniform of a lieutenant general of the Belgian army. As he stepped out of the plane at Evere airport near Brussels at 7:20 a.m., he stood rigidly at attention while a band played the Belgian national anthem, La Brabanqonne...
Married. Georges Simenon, 47, prolific (more than 350 books) Belgian-born French novelist now living in California; and Denise Ouimet, 30, his secretary; he for the second time; in Reno, the day after his divorce (after 27 years of marriage, one son) from Regine Simenon...
...able former Minister of Education, who is an impatient man. Cracked one UNESCO representative last week: "For Torres Bodet, manana means today." Bodet had a pet project of his own-nothing more nor less than peace. He favored a Yugoslav suggestion for an international intellectual congress for peace, a Belgian proposal to form a committee to study the effects of new weapons, a Czech plan to outlaw atomic weapons. When the conference rejected these projects, Bodet got sore. Cried Bodet: "I ask the conference to place on the agenda the selection of my successor...