Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands had just completed, or were about to complete, new cabinets, in which resistance or leftist leaders dominated. Belgium was faced with a political crisis touched off by King Leopold's decision to return home. In France, the French defeat in Syria had raised new questions about the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle. Would he still be strong enough, by the time of France's national election next fall, to keep the right and left in suspended solution? In Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's position had been further weakened by the snub given...
Europe's most explosive crisis last week was in Belgium. The man who might detonate it. King Leopold III, was in St. Wolfgang in the Austrian Alps. Reports that he might come home sent angry citizens swirling through the streets, shouting: "Down with Leopold!'' "Hang the King!" Defiant Walloons (French-speaking Belgians) threatened to bar his reentry into the country with their bodies. Socialist Premier Achille van Acker threatened to resign if King Leopold set foot on Belgian soil. There were rumors that Britain might intervene to restore Leopold to his throne...
...Leopold III, King of the Belgians, suddenly recovered his health. From Salzburg he sent word that he was coming home. Since Socialist Premier Achille Van Acker's Government had virtually barred the sovereign's return (TIME, May 21), Leopold's decision plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis...
...administrative bolus to its No. i political ward case-India. From his
palace in New Delhi, Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India,
broadcast a new proposal to break the country's three-year political
deadlock and put her "on the road to self-government." In London,
Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India, announced the proposal to
an approving Parliament. High points:
...King Leopold listened. Then he wrote a letter to his brother, the Regent: the King's health, impaired by German imprisonment, did not permit him to return at once to Belgium; would Prince Charles continue to act as regent? Leopold was able to deliver the letter in person since Prince Charles stayed on as a house guest...