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Belgium, though still technically committed by the Locarno Treaties to defend Britain or France if either should be attacked, has long been ready to let the rest of Europe go hang. Handsome young King Leopold III seven months ago gave out that his country intended to "follow a policy exclusively and entirely Belgian" (TIME, Oct. 26), and last week that policy was fulfilled. The French and British Governments, making a virtue of necessity both agreed to release Belgium from he promise to defend Britain and France from attack, but maintained their pledge, from motives of self-interest, to fight...
...annoy Nazi extremists unduly. He had the memorandum mimeographed, sent copies to Nazi bigwigs, other bankers, manufacturers, without comment other than a request for their personal opinions. That done Dr. Schacht stepped into a plane and hopped quickly to Brussels where he was elaborately welcomed by King Leopold, the Governor of the National Bank of Belgium and Premier Paul van Zeeland...
...Chicago's Palmer House one night last week some 1,300 people, including Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly, the British Consul General, Rabbi Louis Leopold Mann and numerous ministers, paid $2 apiece to eat fruit, asparagus soup, chicken, Salade Peoples Church, Frozen Cake 25th Jubilee. The jubilee was that of the world's largest Unitarian church (2,500 members), founded with 67 members in 1912 by a rotund, swarthy little man who today is Chicago's most popular Protestant pastor...
...finished before that ubiquitous meeting-goer, Lewis D. Gilbert ("U. S. Minority Stockholder No. 1"), rose to propose that Mr. Schwab be kicked upstairs into an "honorary chairmanship" with a $25,000 annual pension. Mr. Schwab, said Stockholder Gilbert, had outlived his usefulness. Loudly seconded was this thought by Leopold B. Coshland, a stockholder who once complained that Bethlehem was closer to Mr. Schwab's stomach than his heart...
...COMMONER MARRIED A KING-Baroness cle Vaughan-Washburn ($2.50). Guarded but self-revealing confessions of "Très Belle," who at 16 became the mistress of 65-year-old Belgian King Leopold II, bore him two sons, married him four days before his death...