Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rexist Leader Leon Degrelle, would-be Nazi Gauleiter of Belgium, and 2,000 of his followers. Force was the Nazis' last resort, and force was met with as effective force as a country of 8,300,000 can bring against one of 100,000,000. For in Leopold the Belgians have found a leader to whom their allegiance, based on respect and affection, is just as solid as the most fanatical Nazi's to Adolf Hitler. And Leopold III is a stand-up man as well as a King...
Education of a Prince. In 1915, when he was 14, before he went to Eton, Leopold demanded and for six months was allowed to serve in his father's trenches as a private soldier. After Eton, he was tutored for four years along special lines mapped by his father, emphasizing economics. Also, travel. Oldtime U. S. newspapermen remember the democratic young prince (no great contrast, except among gay ladies, to Britain's then Prince of Wales) who accompanied King Albert through the U. S. in 1919, playing poker with them, driving the locomotive. With his father he visited...
Trial of a King. All this was fine and idealistic, but last week Leopold III and his people were faced by the jagged facts of war, of superlative aggression by an enemy whose morals, politics and economics are in another world; who would stop at nothing and was armed and powered for almost anything. Little good now did it do Belgium or 38-year-old Leopold, who is as perfect a gentleman in the British mold as his good friends and contemporaries, King George VI and War Secretary Anthony Eden...
...married Crown Prince Umberto of Italy-possible checkrein to keep Benito Mussolini from jumping in on Hitler's side; that his late wife was the King of Sweden's popular niece, which is one more tug at Sweden's fearful heart; that Franklin Roosevelt called himself Leopold's "old friend" and sent a message saying the U. S. people were shocked and angry. Now it mattered that King Leopold retained Lieut. General Henri Jean Charles Eugene Denis as Defense Minister when, last year, he reached retirement age. General Denis, from an old military family...
...King Leopold had vigorously cultivated friendship and common interests with The Netherlands. He joined Queen Wilhelmina twice last autumn in trying to secure peace by mediation. Said he: "Side by side with Holland, Belgium stands." She joined him, meanwhile, with a Dutch preparedness program which, while not calculated to do more than delay Germany until Allied reinforcements arrived, was a wide departure from her unarmed neutrality in the last war. It helped cover Belgium's vital interests to the north. Wilhelmina was urged to adopt it by patriarchal Hendrikus Colijn, long her most trusted adviser. Last week the Dutch...