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Political reconstruction was also in progress under Max Liebe, prewar Nazi agent and spy, now Counselor of the German Embassy. King Leopold was immured in Laeken Palace, still a national hero because he foresaw the approaching debacle and acted in time to save countless Belgian lives. Discredited because it fled at the moment of crisis, the refugee Government of Hubert Pierlot (still in Vichy) prepared its resignation last week, hoped the Nazis would permit its members to return as ordinary refugees. In Brussels pro-German Henri de Man, onetime Minister of Finance and President of the Belgian Labor Party...
...Hollow-cheeked old Gustav V rode out to Stockholm's stadium, warned 30,000 holiday-making Swedes: "The danger is not past. ... I therefore exhort you not to relax." >Bitter, broken and bewildered, Leopold III, King of the Belgians, brooded in his castle at Laeken, on Brussels' edge. Execrated by his allies, who were not to be placated by the restrained comments of the British Prime Minister, repudiated by his own Government, by his overseas empire, by approximately one-third of his eight million people (fled to France), by nearly every important personage of his country, Leopold...
...last week, when the twelve survivors of Round 2 were preparing to fight it out in the finals, Brussels, agog, was laying bets right & left. The twelve finalists had been moved from their lodgings to the Royal Palace in suburban Laeken. There each of them was shut in a soundproof room with a piano and a brand-new manuscript copy of an unpublished (and unknown) concerto by Belgian Composer Jean Absil, composed especially for the occasion. For seven days they sweated over this assignment, kept from contact with the outside world but allowed to walk in the Palace grounds...
...Queen of the Belgians lay in state in the black-draped "Tinkers Hall" of Laeken Palace last week with four generals as a guard of honor during the day, black-robed nuns to watch over her at night. Only her face was visible above the violet-strewn counterpane...
Born, To Queen Astrid of the Belgians and King Leopold III; a second son, Albert; in Laeken...