Word: leopold
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...letter to Prime Minister Chamberlain, urging him to go out and take steps to found a world organization for the Solution of Economic Problems. The trouble would be that in Britain "it isn't done," but in Belgium it is. Last week young, vigorous and thoughtful King Leopold III did it in a friendly letter which began "Dear Prime Minister" and was signed...
...Believe me, dear Prime Minister, your devoted LEOPOLD...
Meanwhile it was Belgian Week at the Paris Exposition and when Leopold III arrived from Brussels for the festivities, almost every French editor hailed his "idealism and courage." In the streets of Paris he was wildly cheered. In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull praised Leopold Ill's "timely suggestion...
...project so great as that envisioned by His Majesty can be compressed into an informal, friendly letter of reasonable length, but the encouraging lead which Leopold III gave to Premier van Zeeland was phrased in "the King's own hand" thus...
...York. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was expected back again. In the swank Cafe Bazar and Count Alfred Salm's tearoom across the way, chatter about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's impending arrival all but submerged the news that King Carol of Rumania, King Leopold III of Belgium, Prince Umberto of Italy, the young Franklin Roosevelts were coming...