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...Paris last week, the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission issued its first two catalogues, which offered to transplanted Americans (and secondly to Europeans) $11,500,000 worth of everything from aspirin to three-ton Diesel cranes. First taker: the Belgian Government, which got 300 automobiles and 125 tons of steel rods...
...hours next day Premier van Acker berated his King for conduct inimical to the welfare of his country. The Premier charged that Leopold had 1) expected a German victory; 2) interviewed Adolf Hitler after Belgium's capitulation to arrange postwar collaboration with Germany; 3) refused to back the Belgian Government in Exile; 4) rejected advice to escape and join the Maquis...
...number ran into hundreds of thousands. The discarded Polish government in London hoped to draw some of them into its large, stateless army (see FOREIGN NEWS). But that government wanted no Jews. The British and U.S. occupation armies absorbed thousands as laborers. Many more thousands were going to French, Belgian and Dutch farms and mines to work...
...cross between two bee varieties (Carniolan and Italian), the Squamish bees were brought to the Squamish River Valley from Holland 35 years ago by a Belgian immigrant. Now there are some 50 colonies of about 60,000 bees each. To protect the strain, the British Columbia provincial government has barred the importation of other bees into Squamish Valley. Entomologists fear that because the Squamish is a hybrid, its reluctance to sting may not last. But Feedham believes that by long breeding it has now become a distinct new strain. He looks forward hopefully to a honey-producing bee so gentle...
Cold Belgium. In Belgium, production has been hamstrung by a series of political strikes (e.g., the miners oppose the return of King Leopold), and is only 65% of normal. Typical result: the Belgian steel industry was so short of coal in March that only one plant operated. Now the mills are turning out only 25,000 tons of steel a month, 12% of prewar production...