Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgian Cabinets these days are as flimsy as playing-card castles. Month ago King Leopold III accepted Premier Paul Henri Spaak's resignation in the Flemish v. Walloon crisis caused by patriotic War veterans (TIME, Feb. 20). He asked Walloon Catholic Henri Jaspar, who had been Premier from 1926 to 1930, to form a new Cabinet. After two days of fruitless interviews, Jaspar gave up; 36 hours later he died of a stomach ulcer about which he had told no one. Former Cabinet Minister Hubert Pierlot, also a Walloon-Catholic, tried next. He built up a Cabinet of Catholics...
Generally known as "Flemish primitives," these 15th-Century artists were primitive in little but their religious sincerity. Modern painters marvel at the jewel-like permanence of color and patience of workmanship in their best pictures-two reasons why collectors short on verve but long on taste have made a safe hobby of Early Flemish masterpieces. The finest U. S. collection of Flemish primitives was formed by a lawyer, the late John Graver Johnson of Philadelphia...
...Johnson collection, now owned by the Philadelphia Museum, formed the nucleus of last week's exhibition at Worcester. Enriched by 44 pictures from public and private collections in Belgium, it was the first sizable, over-all show of 15th, 16th, and 17th-Century Flemish painting ever held in the U. S. Jointly responsible for it were the Worcester Museum's affable, oval Director Francis Henry Taylor and Assistant Director Henri Marceau of the Philadelphia Museum. They succeeded last summer in getting the help of Léo van Puyvelde, distinguished, bluntspoken* director of the Royal Museums of Belgium...
Twenty years after the World War Belgium is still torn with Wartime hatreds. The Walloons and many loyal Flemings have never forgiven those Flemish politicians who played ball with the German invaders in the hope that Germany would sever Flanders from the rest of Belgium and set it up as an autonomous state. Many pro-German Flemings were arrested for treason and imprisoned after the War and as long as King Albert sat on the throne, they had no hope of securing their freedom. Two years ago, however, broad-minded young King Leopold set out to unify his nation before...
Patriotic War veterans made no secret of their hatred of this royal boon, patiently waited for an incident to demonstrate their feelings. Fortnight ago, they found one. One of the Flemish politicians pardoned by the King's bill was Dr. Adrian Martens, a mediocre medical man who had worked for Flemish autonomy. Sentenced to death, Martens escaped to The Netherlands in 1918. The Belgians burned him in effigy. After the passage of the amnesty bill, he returned unobtrusively to take up practice in Ghent. Some time ago, Belgian Premier Paul Henri Spaak proposed Dr. Martens for membership...