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...Belgian crisis reached a new climax. For three miles through Brussels' streets stretched an army of Belgian Resistance groups, demonstrating against their Government's order to surrender their arms. In front of the Chamber of Deputies and the office of Premier Hubert Pierlot police scuffled with the demonstrators. Sticks and stones thudded, grenades exploded, rifles cracked. Casualties (as reported by the Resistance forces): four demonstrators killed, 38 wounded...
...apprentice, now boss of the French Communists, echoed Pravda: "There are some hundreds of people in France who must be shot and some thousands who must be removed from their posts. By creating delays, some émigrés in the Government . . . risk falling into the plight of the Belgian Government, whose émigrés also learned nothing. The Pierlot Government ... is doomed sooner or later by prostituting itself and calling on foreign aid against the people...
...This is roughly equivalent to an $18-billion U.S. war loan.) But skeptical French financiers flatly called the loan a failure. They passed along the almost unbelievable gossip that two-thirds of the bonds were apparently bought by: 1) Belgian money fleeing the harsh deflation measures in that country (TIME, Nov. 6); 2) German franc holdings, built up in the occupation, coming back into France via Switzerland...
...Ever since his return from exile, Belgium's Communists have attacked Premier Hubert Pierlot. They have criticized his Government's courageous but unpopular deflation program (TIME, Nov. 6), its slowness in purging collaborators, its handling of food rationing and crippled communications. When Premier Pierlot last week ordered Belgian Resistance groups (40,000 strong) to disarm and disband, his three leftist ministers (two Communists and one Resistance) resigned in noisy protest...
...Moscow Pravda attacked the efforts of the French and Belgian Governments to disarm the Resistance groups: "Europe is winning release from a nightmare. Is it not obvious that the most important question facing the liberated country is complete elimination of any remnants of Fascist influence...