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Congo & Security. A visit of state is ipso facto not a business visit, but Leopold III is expected to busy himself finding out what the British Government mean by a startling decision they took last week. This was to send to visit Adolf Hitler this week the notably pro-German Viscount Halifax, whose Cabinet post is Lord President of the Council. With all Europe assuming that Halifax & Hitler will talk over Germany's demands for colonial territory; her aspirations in Austria and Czechoslovakia; and her intentions toward Soviet Russia, now that Germany, Italy and Japan have made an anti...
...Zeeland v. Degrelle. Considering the importance of economic forces in the modern world, Belgium's late King Albert gave and King Leopold has given much consideration to whether a modern State should not be managed by an expert or experts, rather than run by a politician or politicians...
Another 1914? Adolf Hitler may be no more dependable than was Wilhelm II in respecting the new German pledge not to invade Belgium and even defend her against aggression, but King Leopold and his generals like to draw attention to such facts as that in 1914 the peacetime armies of Belgium and Germany were respectively 42,000 and 870,000, whereas in case of war next year the figures would be 84,000 and 550,000 at best estimates. Brussels, however, does not consider that Germany will next fight westward toward Belgium and France, but instead eastward...
...rate can only lead at last to a major war. The alternative, as His Majesty sees it, is for statesmen to learn something about economics and apply what they learn toward easing the world's stresses & strains, instead of holding endless conferences in terms of politics & prestige. King Leopold last summer made a public appeal for action along these lines so trenchant that the London Laborite Daily Herald said it "may alter world history." and the London Conservative Morning Post declared: "The very least that countries to which the appeal was directed can do is to give the proposal...
...long as Germany remained disarmed by the Treaty of Versailles, it was to Belgium's advantage to remain allied with Britain and France. King Leopold III, seeing that Hitler's rearmament of Germany in violation of Versailles had created a new situation, secured from Britain and France a release from Belgium's obligation to aid them, while they agreed to remain bound to aid Belgium in case she is attacked. This coup by King Leopold in person, his Minister in Berlin followed up by quietly obtaining from Hitler a pledge that Germany, too, will defend Belgium...