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...Roman Catholic primate. Saturday night he fasted. Sunday morning, pale and strained, he donned the robes of his new office, motored to St. Stephen's Cathedral. The eyes of high church and state dignitaries, including Cardinal Innitzer, Papal Nuncio Johann Dellepiane and Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl, were upon...
...first time in ten years, the Belgian people this week heard the voice of their exiled King. In a seven-minute speech, recorded in Switzerland and put on the radio in Belgium, Leopold outlined a compromise plan for his return. He asked that he be recalled to the throne, whereupon he would "temporarily" cede the royal powers to his 19-year-old son Baudouin. In Brussels anti-Leopoldists asked: How long is "temporarily...
...King's speech, written after a conference with Christian Socialist Premier-designate Paul van Zeeland, was broadcast first in a somewhat heavy French, for Wallonia, where Leopold had lost in the March 12 plebiscite; then in a thin, nervous Flemish, for Flanders, which had voted for his return. Leopold recognized that he should reign again only with the approval of a "great majority" (he got an overall 57.68% in the plebiscite), and with the "loyal support of all political groups...
...Much or Too Little? In the meantime, while Baudouin ruled as Lieutenant General of the Realm, Leopold would "make contact with all levels of opinion and bring back peace . . ." The temporary delegation of power to Baudouin would end, Leopold suggested, "with the accord of the government and at the moment which I shall consider to conform with the interests of the nation...
...Leopold conceded enough for anti-Leopold Liberals and Socialists? Too much for pro-Leopold elements in the Christian Socialist (Catholic) party...