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...heavy silence of the crowd outside, as Leopold signed the instrument of abdication, three teen-age girls passed a single handkerchief back & forth, dabbing fitfully at welling eyes...
...Leopold II's beautiful mistress, Dancer Cleéo de Meérode...
...Leopold's major fault was perhaps that he wanted too much to be a King. As constitutional monarch of the Belgians, he had adamantly, and often bravely, refused to take a back seat while his ministers ran the country. His willfulness had led him into many dark hours, the darkest of which was his surrender of the Belgian army to Hitler in 1940. In recent years, Leopold's stubborn refusal to give up the throne of which more than half his people felt he was no longer worthy deeply rent Belgium...
Last week, after 17 years as sovereign, Leopold III, King of the Belgians, did what he could to make amends and restore harmony among his people. Before a distinguished group of 250 in the Royal Palace's white-and-gold throne room in Brussels, the stern, still handsome and young-looking (at 50) monarch relinquished his right to reign to his 2O-year-old son Baudouin. "It is with pride," Leopold told the boy, "that I transmit to you the noble and heavy mission of henceforth bearing the crown * of a Belgium which has remained, despite the most terrible...
...people, Leopold said: "My dear compatriots...the future of the country depends on your national solidarity...