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...more daubing on official buildings, but plenty of attention to such private undertakings as shops, hotels, garage owners, doctors. Meanwhile, the Belgium Royal Commission on Names and Dialects made haste to appease M. Grammens and all Flemish nationalists. Announced last week was a change of name for hundreds of Belgian towns and villages. Samples: Leuven for Louvain, Ieper for Ypres, Brugge for Bruges, Kortrijk for Courtrai...
...home in London as much as in Belgrade, Prince Paul and his beautiful Grecian-born wife, Princess Olga, occupied the "Belgian suite" of Buckingham Palace. Greeted by his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, His Royal Highness cocktailed with old Oxford chums, dined with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, teaed with the Prime Minister. Also, in long talks Paul discussed with George VI the future of 15-year-old King Peter II, whose Regent he will remain until Peter begins to rule Yugoslavia in his own right...
...Germany, the Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter warned small neighboring nations they would be treated as enemies in any future war unless they eliminated anti-German comment from their press. This was aimed especially at Switzerland, where an unofficial foreign news censorship committee exists. Recently the Belgian Press Association spunkily rejected a suggestion from the Belgian Foreign Office that they set up a similar committee...
...taking care of the exiles, Van Zeeland foresees two problems: "the status of the Jews' new country" and a slight readjustment of the world's capital. If the civilized countries take heed of the Jews' plight, it "would help general business recovery," the Belgian statesman predicts...
Later in the evening Van Zeeland lectured at Ford Hall in Boston. Van Zeeland has received a Master of Arts degree at Princeton, where he studied as a Follow on the exchange scholarship fund founded by the Belgian Relief Commission after the World War. Although he served as premier during the perilous times from 1935 to 1937, Van Zeeland looks incredibly young...