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During the last 20 years of Max's burgomastership, his right arm in the City Council was a physician named François van de Meulebroeck. Meulebroeck, no cock sparrow, weighed 235 pounds. His clothes bagged on him, he came of peasant stock and loved to chat in his native Flemish with the fishwives in the market place. On Max's death, Dr. Meulebroeck became Burgomaster of Brussels...
Meeting the same opposition from Van de Meulebroeck that their fathers had had from Max, the Nazis tried to turn the Bruxellois against him by imposing a fine of 5,000,000 francs on the city. It only increased the Burgomaster's popularity. François van de Meulebroeck is 64. The Nazis decreed that no burgomaster could be more than 60, arrested him. They tore down posters of his proclamation of protest. In the spirit of his predecessor, the Bruxellois pasted them up again. Last week the two Belgian fliers who escaped to England (see p. 17) brought...
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