Word: pholien
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Socialists, who support Baudouin, are agitating for new elections (their slogan: "For the new King, a new Parliament!"), are expected to make headway. Catholic Premier Pholien's fence-sitting cabinet is expected to offer Catholic King Baudouin its resignation, may soon be replaced by a Socialist-Catholic coalition. But Belgium's biggest problem is outside her borders: the threat of Russian aggression. By 1952, Belgium has promised to contribute to the NATO army one full armored division, two infantry divisions, two reserve divisions...
...diplomat spoke before the Flemish Economic Association: in the audience was Premier Joseph ("Petit Père") Pholien, just back from the U.S. (TIME, April 16). Two nights later, at another dinner, Pholien replied. This time Ambassador Murphy was in the audience. Pholien said that Belgium's defense spending "would amount to 5.5%, not 5%, of its national product." He added that it is often misleading to compare defense expenditures of nations in terms of percentages of gross national product...
Stout, amiable Joseph Pholien, a lawyer who helped found Belgium's postwar Social Christian Party, unexpectedly became Belgium's Premier last October, after the royal abdication crisis had forced Premier Jean Duvieusart to resign. Pholien grew very fond of his new office. He was irritated, however, by the globetrotting reminiscences of Foreign Minister Paul Van Zeeland, ex-Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, and other colleagues...
Last month 66-year-old Premier Pholien decided to make his first visit to the U.S. He and Madame Pholien quietly paid their own fares on a scheduled Sabena Airline flight to New York. After some hurried sightseeing in Manhattan, the Pholiens, accompanied by State Department and Belgian officials, left Washington last week for a look at the country. They inspected a General Motors truck plant in Detroit and a chemical factory in Muscle Shoals, Ala., rode in a helicopter at Wright Field. Back in Washington the Premier had lunch at Blair House with Dean Acheson and Harry Truman...
This week, pleased and impressed by his quick trip, Joseph Pholien was headed for home...