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...Belgian women had scarcely ceased weeping over the coffins of the victims of Rundstedt's Christmas drive. Belgian political factions had scarcely interrupted (but never really stopped) their quarrel in face of the threat that the drive implied. Last week in Brussels crisis loomed again. The five Socialist members of his Cabinet threatened to withdraw their support from Premier Hubert Pierlot. His Government seemed to be tottering...
...Belgian crisis was not merely Belgian. The problems of the little kingdom, whose King Leopold III is a German prisoner, seemed like a desperate distillation of the problems of much of liberated Europe. Behind these problems lay hunger (the physical absence of sufficient food), cold (the physical absence of fuel in one of Europe's bitterest winters), the war-induced collapse of the economic system (which was unable to produce vitally needed consumers' goods or to give jobs to people who vitally needed them...
Waiting to take political advantage of this general despair was a dynamic party with a plan for ending it. The Communist Party's demonstrations had touched off the Belgian unrest which British intervention prevented from reaching crisis proportions last fall. The Communist Party had had a determined hand in continuing to give the social discontent a political form and drive. The one thing that gave pause to the recalcitrant Socialists last week was the fear that if they withdrew from the Government, Communists might increase their strength...
...Manhattan, he brought antitrust charges against famed De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd., its diamond-selling subsidiary, Diamond Trading Co. Ltd., Belgium's "Diamang" and "Forminiere," world's biggest diamond miners, and five other British, Belgian and Portuguese companies. Together they supply 95% of the world's diamonds...
...Armored retook Saint-Vith, a town of bloody and gallant memory. North of there, the Germans still stood on Belgian soil in a small bend of the border. They were smacked by the famed 1st Infantry, the stout peg which had held down the north shoulder of Rundstedt's salient. The doughboys attacked at 4 a.m. in a heavy snowstorm, without artillery preparation, and gained two miles...