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...popular hero in the mold of the late Nye Bevan, and just as militant a Socialist. He grew up in the bitter, capitalist-hating 1930s, fought bravely against the Nazis in the World War II under ground. Now he clearly had much more in mind than simply defeating Premier Gaston Eyskens' economic austerity program. He sought the downfall of the regime. He demanded a new socialized pattern for Belgium, with nationalization of industry and central economic planning. He wanted a division of his country into two federated regions-the Walloon south and the Flemish north. Unable for years...
...high position and go quietly back home to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises. What then? Not the least of the anomalies of present-day France is that under the constitution of the Fifth Republic. De Gaulle's place would be taken by the president of the French Senate: Gaston Monnerville, a 64-year-old Negro from French Guiana...
When Parliament reconvened after the holiday recess, Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Liberal-Christian government brushed aside Socialists' demands that the Loi Unique be withdrawn, won a vote of confidence 121-83. Those who knew the Premier and his unyielding tenacity predicted that he would fight it through to the bitter end. At 55, Eyskens has lost neither his native Flemish stubbornness nor his passion for cold, precise logic. The stubbornness was vividly illustrated last year when even King Baudouin was demanding his resignation after the Congo was lost; Eyskens held fast, and Baudouin gave in rather than make...
Real Division. But it was becoming ominously clear that blocking Gaston Eyskens' bill was no longer the lone, clear issue among the swirling mobs of strikers and the Socialist slogan slingers. The dammed-up bitterness of a nation sharply divided for generations was flowing again, underlining anew the point made by a statesman to his King 40 years ago: "Sire, there are no Belgians. There are only Flemings and Walloons." The largely agricultural Flemings of the Dutch-speaking north for years have felt that successive governments have discriminated against them in favor of the French-speaking Walloons...
...seductions, and wit keep it from self seriousness, is delightful. The characters are stereotypes, and the ironies are always pleasant. (Th General's friend, Dr. Bonfant, announces that life must be lived like a cavalry charge, and then goes home to be browbeaten by his own shrewish wife. When Gaston, the secretary, hints that he is falling in love, the General shouts, "You must gorge yourself on cheap novels!" And Gaston replies, "No, sir, on the classics, exclusively. But the course of events is frequently quite similar...