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...crisis last week was in Belgium. The man who might detonate it. King Leopold III, was in St. Wolfgang in the Austrian Alps. Reports that he might come home sent angry citizens swirling through the streets, shouting: "Down with Leopold!'' "Hang the King!" Defiant Walloons (French-speaking Belgians) threatened to bar his reentry into the country with their bodies. Socialist Premier Achille van Acker threatened to resign if King Leopold set foot on Belgian soil. There were rumors that Britain might intervene to restore Leopold to his throne...
Loud Resentment. Except for the Catholics, all Belgian parties of the left and center had joined to resist the royal return. Behind this loud resistance was Belgian loud resentment because Leopold had: 1) surrendered to Germany in 1940 instead of continuing the war in exile; 2) married a commoner, comely Mademoiselle Marie-Lelia Baels, while most of his subjects were suffering under the German occupation; 3) thereby become the son-in-law of a rich Belgian industrialist about to face a charge of collaboration with the enemy. There was no expressed opposition to the King's eldest son, Prince...
From strong-willed Queen Mary, the Belgian Queen received right royal counsel: Leopold must "be a King." Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte asked King Leopold to pay her a visit. Luxembourg is Belgium's southeastern neighbor. From St. Wolfgang, King Leopold promptly announced that there was "no question of abdicating," that he was proceeding with the formation of a new government...
...Allied Military Government. Belgium's Minister of Education Auguste Buisseret took the occasion to make a few remarks on the educational system from which they had recently been liberated. His remarks were a grudging tribute to the effectiveness of Nazi teaching methods. A considerable number of Belgian youngsters, said M. Buisseret, had been infected with Naziism during the occupation because of the Nazis' remarkably persuasive teaching. A set of 8,000 lantern slides and 300 movies were circulated from a central exchange in Germany. Nazi supervisors also brought in other attractive visual aids, including maps, brochures, brightly colored...
...Result: Belgian pupils now find old classroom procedures dull. To counteract Nazi poison, M. Buisseret last week applied to a United Nations education commission in London for advice on replacing Belgium's old system with one as good as the Nazis...