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...beauty of the book lies in its treatment, in its precise and vivid descriptions of Flemish country life and customs. Van der Meersch has a gift (aided here by highly sympathetic Translator Hopkins) for conveying the mud and mist of the low-lying Belgian country, the bleakness of its villages, the hard craft and knockabout hilarity of its inhabitants. To describe them he strays frequently, and to good effect, from the path of his narrative. Best scenes: a country woman dressing, layer by layer, in her go-to-market clothes; description of a cockfight; Breughel-esque picture of a village...
Next day Japan had grown so belligerent toward the Brussels Conference that the Belgian Government hastily informed Tokyo that if October 30 seems too early a date the Conference can be postponed, but the Imperial Japanese Government were expected to announce this week that they will refuse the invitation to sit in, in any case...
...reorganized under the leadership of Finance Minister Henri de Man and the resignations of its members were before King Leopold III. Many expected Economist van Zeeland to go to Basle and succeed the recently drowned Director of the Bank for International Settlements, M. Pierre Quesnay. Attacks of the Belgian Fascists or Rexists upon M. van Zeeland for continuing to receive emoluments from the National Bank of Belgium after he became Premier resulted in a parliamentary vote clearing van Zeeland (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante). But the blatant Rexist press has never ceased repeating its charges, and last week van Zeeland...
...Majesty had given timely warning of his venture into statecraft, had announced in a speech the winter before that he was resolved to "follow a policy exclusively and entirely Belgian" (TIME, Oct. 26). So long as Germany remained helpless and disarmed by the Treaty of Versailles, the best bet for Belgium had been as an ally of France, but now that Germany has burst her bonds such an alliance would only antagonize the Reich. After His Majesty's trip to London it remained to secure for Belgium whatever treaty pledges Germany might be willing to make, but Leopold...
...German Government," read the official text, "is ready, just as are the British & French Governments, to grant assistance to Belgium in case she should become the object of aggression or invasion. ... It confirms its determination under no circumstances to impair such inviolability & integrity and at all times to respect Belgian territory except, of course, in case of an armed conflict . . . in which Belgium should participate in military action directed against Germany...