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Some 5,600,000 Belgians went to the polls this week to elect a new Parliament. They cast their ballots with Belgian calm; but one incident in Brussels revealed the social tension beneath the surface...
...Leopoldist argument was made by the Catholic ex-Premier Paul van Zeeland: "The Belgian is a man who likes things in their right places. At the bottom of every Belgian heart is the feeling that the royal question has not been put in its right place . . . We believe the King should come back, but, of course, only if most of the people want him back . . . We want to consult the people...
...first year, ECA, faced with an emergency, tended to the opposite direction. ECA sometimes stimulated fast production in a way that worked against future European economic unity and overall efficiency. Example: before the war, The Netherlands made heavy purchases from Belgium's big railway equipment industry. Today, the Belgians do not want to trade with The Netherlands because the Dutch can pay them only guilders, not now convertible to dollars. Like everyone else in Europe, the Belgians want dollars to buy in the U.S. So the Dutch are building their own railway equipment industry just across the Belgian border...
Many middle-of-the-road Belgians, unimpressed by Le Peuple's poisonous campaign, nevertheless suspected that Leopold, a man of considerable intelligence and ability, was a natural autocrat who would never be comfortable within the limits of a constitutional monarchy. In 1940, two weeks after the Germans invaded Belgium, he had refused the pleas of the Belgian cabinet to leave the country and form a government-in-exile in London. In 1944, the Nazis took him to Germany; he was liberated there by the Allies and went to Switzerland. The Brussels Parliament installed his brother Charles as Regent...
...track down the broadcasters of these titillating messages, Belgian police were patrolling the back roads of rural Limburg last week in small trucks loaded with apparatus for locating secret transmitters. But the dour, closemouthed Flemish farmers were as uncooperative as they were in the wartime days when the Gestapo hunted for Belgian underground radio operators...