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Last week in London exiled Belgian Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot broadcast to Belgians: "The enemy . . . hastens to put the finishing touch on his work of disorganization and destruction of the state. . . . On the deliverance of Belgium . . . the King will recover . . . the exercise of his prerogatives." Winston Churchill affirmed Allied support of the exiled Government. If the Germans had hoped to wreck Allied plans for Belgium by spiriting away the King, they had failed...
...communes, 2,300 quisling mayors have been put in power. They will have to be ousted, replaced by trustworthies before normal order is regained. From the 45-mile sea-coast 180,000 people have been shoved inland. They must be returned. Wrecked residential and industrial areas must be rebuilt. Belgian railways, looted by Germany, must be rehabilitated...
...belonged to the U.S. radio. The U.S. slept on, but the radio worked as if it had the biggest audience in history. First, from London, came the rolling, authoritative voice of General Eisenhower, reading his proclamation to the people of Western Europe; then Norway's King Haakon and Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot...
...other walls portraits of distinguished cattle share honors with the cattlemen. Among them: the Duke of Northumberland, "the best Shorthorn bull in all England in 1839"; a charming oil of a Guernsey cow with dainty pink nostrils and eyelids. There is a two-foot bronze sculpture of a Belgian horse by Rosa Bonheur's gifted brother, Isadore...
Such a program will probably be more practicable for Belgium than for most of Europe. Since the day the Nazis immured him in Laeken Castle, 42-year-old King Leopold has kept his title but has refused to govern. Belgian courts have stubbornly refused to cater to the Nazis, and have kept the prewar judicial system pretty well intact (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943). Nazi exploitation and expropriation have presumably played havoc with Belgium's interior economy, left the true ownership of many properties in doubt. But even this factor-a specter of disintegration which overhangs all Europe...