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...paintings are mostly small and glossy, done on panels and crammed with miniature details. The great Flemish artists who produced them-Memling, Dirk Bouts, Roger van der Weyden and the brothers Van Eyk-held a reducing glass up to nature, painted serenely sweet and ordered little worlds. No master before or since has surpassed them in that, but more passionate artists are apt to find them too phlegmatic, and to prefer the thornier works of Hieronymus Bosch, who also lived within Burgundy's bounds...
...King's Oath. From a script held in a trembling hand, the new King read a message to his people first in Flemish, then all over again in French: "After having consecrated himself entirely to the country, King Leopold III ended his reign by a gesture whose grandeur and abnegation excite admiration. I thank the country for having paid him unanimous homage...My father inculcated in me respect for the constitution and traditions of the dynasty. I shall remain scrupulously faithful to them...
Jesuit Father Hernandez Heras, organizer of the exhibit, picked up d'Ors' idea of universalism and sailed it back. Could he accept "the Herculean forms of a prizefighter that Michelangelo gave God in the Sistine Chapel...the fat Flemish women Rubens painted as Virgins?" Heras, who teaches at St. Xavier's College, Bombay, thought some of the Indian types were "nearer to the Judean type of Jesus and the Holy Family than our classic figures...
Belgians first began to hear of burly Constant Permeke when he blustered into the Flemish art settlement of Laethem-Saint-Martin in 1909. There, with a few other young experimenters, he set about fighting the impressionist artists-in-residence. For their softly lighted diffused studies Permeke substituted virile paintings of grubby, stocky farmers with huge limbs and bullnecks, stuck them in earthy, gloomy landscapes...
...diplomat spoke before the Flemish Economic Association: in the audience was Premier Joseph ("Petit Père") Pholien, just back from the U.S. (TIME, April 16). Two nights later, at another dinner, Pholien replied. This time Ambassador Murphy was in the audience. Pholien said that Belgium's defense spending "would amount to 5.5%, not 5%, of its national product." He added that it is often misleading to compare defense expenditures of nations in terms of percentages of gross national product...