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...late King Albert was pro-French to the core, but his son, the present young and earnest King Leopold III, has consistently appeased the Flemings. Against this rising Flemish tide the Walloons have become desperate. On the battlefield of Waterloo recently leading Walloon orators significantly spoke of ties with France, just as the Flemish Nationalists look toward The Netherlands. Never before in Belgium's history has the unity of the country been so threatened...
...been sentenced to death in 1918 (and later reprieved) for plotting Flemish autonomy with Germany, was appointed a charter member of the newly created Flemish Academy of Science. The Walloons were furious and the Cabinet of Premier Paul Henri Spaak fell on that issue. It was suspected that King Leopold had backed the appointment. After that Belgian statesmen struggled to form Cabinets, failed in dizzy succession. Soon the suspicion was rife that the King had dictatorial ambitions. Last week a shortlived Cabinet-that of Walloon Premier Hubert Pierlot-was again about to resign when His Majesty stepped in. He refused...
...time being any notion that King Leopold was to become a royal dictator was checked. That question may again arise if the new elections result in the same old deadlocked divisions of Liberal v. Conservative, Walloon v. Fleming, that past elections have produced...
...Belgian Cabinets these days are as flimsy as playing-card castles. Month ago King Leopold III accepted Premier Paul Henri Spaak's resignation in the Flemish v. Walloon crisis caused by patriotic War veterans (TIME, Feb. 20). He asked Walloon Catholic Henri Jaspar, who had been Premier from 1926 to 1930, to form a new Cabinet. After two days of fruitless interviews, Jaspar gave up; 36 hours later he died of a stomach ulcer about which he had told no one. Former Cabinet Minister Hubert Pierlot, also a Walloon-Catholic, tried next. He built up a Cabinet of Catholics...
Satie: Gymnopédie Nos. I & 2. (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting: Victor). French musical impressionism had three inventors: Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and Ernest Fanelli. Today only Debussy is remembered as a front ranker. But these two little pieces, orchestrated by Debussy, are as deft and fresh as Seurat water colors...