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...England's King is such that for him to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign state would automatically create a "Constitutional Crisis," with alarmed British politicians Hell-bent for abdication. The status of the King of the Belgians is such that last week brown-haired young Leopold III, unaccompanied by any of the Belgian Cabinet, arrived in London to negotiate in person with the British Government vital issues as to Belgium's role and defenses in case of another...
Alighting from an ordinary railway carriage, the King of the Belgians drove straight to his Embassy in London. There Leopold III had in to dinner that night British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, British Opposition Leader Major Clement Attlee, a few such fascinating British parliamentary figures as Winston Churchill, plus a British Foreign Office contingent: Mr. Eden, Lord Cranborne, Mr. Orme Garton Sargent, etc. etc. After vigorous general discussion at table, King Leopold later in the evening drew aside and got down to cases with the British expert on the issues in question, Mr. Orme Sargent...
...after the royal Belgian Embassy dinner, King Leopold limousined around to the Foreign Office, negotiated for several hours, then dined at Buckingham Palace, resumed his dealings with British statesmen on the third day, at last returned briskly to Brussels, his capital. In official British circles it was intimated that informal agreements had been reached all along the line. Some of these will be implemented in treaty form, and for purposes of signing Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden may go to Brussels. Apparently the Belgian King and British statesmen are satisfied that...
...election, nominated himself a candidate. From smart young Liberal Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland came a gallant countermove. He decided to resign his own seat, declared that he himself would oppose Rexist Degrelle "as a non-partisan candidate," then hurried off to the Royal Palace to confer with King Leopold III who fixed April 11 for the contest. Declared the Premier: "I do not intend to campaign by radio. No candidate will resort to the radio. The country would only be uselessly upset through that kind of campaign." Thus was cut from beneath Rexist Degrelle's feet any chance...
...Chicago the original Loeb & Leopold considered they were lucky when Clarence Darrow got them off with 99-yr. sentences. Soviet Supreme Court Judge Lintin's son last week got eight years and his "dream friend" five years in labor camps. There, according to the hopeful Soviet official press this week: "They may be regenerated into the ranks of wonderful Soviet Youth." It was pointed out that if the hammer-murderers had broken a hammer in a factory, thus committing "sabotage," they might have been sentenced to death...