Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King without a Country. Belgium's tall, balding, repudiated King Leopold III was winding up an enforced St. Wolfgang vacation which had really been no vacation at all-just a parade of visiting politicians and prelates exhorting him to return to, or keep out of Belgium. But the Belgian Parliament had decided that he should not come home to Brussels. Last week the Swiss Government gave him permission to move into Switzerland, probably to his late father's chateau on Lake Lucerne. It was from there that he had set out ten years ago on the fatal motor...
Distinguished Cadavers. This electoral El Alamein, which brought British socialists to power for the first time in 14 years, strewed Britain with distinguished political corpses. Among the Conservative cadavers were: First Lord of the Admiralty Brendan Bracken; Secretary of State for India, Leopold S. Amery; Sir James Grigg, Secretary for War; Harold Macmillan, Secretary for Air; Sir Donald Somervell, Home Secretary; Ernest Brown, Minister of Aircraft Production; Richard K. Law, Minister of Education; Churchill's son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, Minister of Works; Churchill's son, Major Randolph Churchill...
Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration (New York City Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Too mature a score for the orchestra's record debut. Performance: fair. Recording: good...
...hours next day Premier van Acker berated his King for conduct inimical to the welfare of his country. The Premier charged that Leopold had 1) expected a German victory; 2) interviewed Adolf Hitler after Belgium's capitulation to arrange postwar collaboration with Germany; 3) refused to back the Belgian Government in Exile; 4) rejected advice to escape and join the Maquis...
...Belgians to uphold Parliament's decree of banishment in a national referendum. The issue would not be the monarchy, but Leopold. Three years hence, Leopold's son Prince Baudouin, 15, if he grew up of a sufficiently royal figure to fit the battered royal throne, would presumably become King of the Belgians...