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Architect of peace, and Belgium's new Premier, is Théo Lefèvre, burly, beak-nosed boss of the Social Christians. At 47, Lefèvre belongs to a rising new generation of European leaders, is scarcely known outside his own country. A wartime resistance leader, tough, determined Lefèvre entered Parliament at 32 as a fervent royalist. When his party's old guard acquiesced to the Socialists' demand for Leopold III's abdication, Lefèvre organized a "Young Turks" revolt, and took over the party leadership. The oldtimers growled...
...Lefèvre decided that the time had come to end his long feud with the Socialists. "Belgium must end its violent quarreling, its partisan rivalry, its sterile rancors," he told his followers. "A new generation demands a more farseeing attitude...
Despite their losses, the Social Christians were still the strongest party, would be the backbone of any new coalition. Badly trounced Gaston Eyskens would not be at its head. Emerging as new Social Christian candidate for the premiership is tough, freewheeling 47-year-old Théo Lefèvre. president of the party since 1950. In the end, Lefèvre would probably turn not to the Liberals but to the Socialists for help in forming a government. Socialist Leader Paul-Henri Spaak himself has ambitions for the nation's top job; moreover, the Socialists insisted that they...
...York papers devoted much space to the shortage in their city. There is supposedly only a 60-day supply lef in the reservoirs. This means that these reservoirs are depleted to only 37 percent of their full capacity and that the city is in danger of finding itself short of water for the winter...
Iceland, whose Parliament began meeting on the sounding, desolate plains of Thingvellir (pronounced Thing-vod-lef) in 930 A.D., found itself overrun by British and U.S. soldiers, all with a healthy taste for blondes. Prices had risen 70% in less than a year and a half. Fishermen-fishing is Iceland's chief industry-netted almost as many mines as fish. The State liquor monopoly was being wrecked by bootlegging. Premier Hermann Jónasson's Cabinet had fallen twice in less than a month. The 1,011-year-old Parliament (the Althing) had rejected price-control plans...