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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mahler's Symphony No. 8. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
Belgium's Christian Socialists maneuvered doggedly for a cabinet that would restore exiled Leopold III to the throne. The anti-Leopoldists, led by the Socialists' Paul-Henri Spaak, blustered, brawled and blocked just as doggedly to keep the King away...
Students and strikers massed at Socialist headquarters, chanted "Ab -di -ca -tion!" and "Leopold to the gallows!" Paul-Henri Spaak doffed the morning coat of a continental diplomat for the shirtsleeves of pavement politics. He appeared at a third-floor window and cried: "We ask the gendarmes to retire. This is a legal demonstration. Gendarmes have no business here." Coatless and bareheaded, Spaak led a parade of his belligerent followers through the city. The crowd noticed a repairman on top of a tram whose guide rope had been torn down by demonstrators. "Come down off that tram...
Indefatigable Paul-Henri Spaak next hurried to Liege to join a parade of 20,000. Everywhere he warned: "What we are doing today is a prelude. If Leopold comes back, that's when the real trouble will start...
...Little Corporal. This week the Christian Socialists stepped back for a Liberal try at the royal question. Leopold's younger brother, the Regent Prince Charles, asked the Liberals' Albert Devèze to form a government. Short, sprightly, a politician to the tips of his grey mustache, Devèze has been a Deputy Premier and Defense Minister since August 1949. Dubbed "le petit caporal" because he likes to prance on horseback in uniform, the new Premier-designate was said to be hopeful of a three-party agreement to recall Leopold on condition that the King abdicate immediately...