Word: pierlot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold's case has been summed up by wartime Premier Hubert Pierlot. "The King is not a traitor," he wrote in 1947. "We have never doubted his good intentions. There is nothing unconstitutional in a King's being wrong, provided he follows the advice of his government. In this case, his ministers take the responsibility for his acts. But the King has acted on his own against the advice of his government . . . What is even more serious, he refrained from informing his ministers of his intentions ... A minister who bears the responsibility has a right to know...
...Rundstedt's Christmas drive. Belgian political factions had scarcely interrupted (but never really stopped) their quarrel in face of the threat that the drive implied. Last week in Brussels crisis loomed again. The five Socialist members of his Cabinet threatened to withdraw their support from Premier Hubert Pierlot. His Government seemed to be tottering...
Bayonets in Belgium. Following a fortnight of riots in Brussels, the Belgian Chamber of Deputies met behind a wall of British tanks and bayonets, voted, 116 to 12, to retain Premier Hubert Pierlot. In Brussels, there were many strikes. But most of Belgium was quiet. The Communists continued to shout: "The Pierlot Cabinet is condemned by the mass of people." Through the newly opened port of Antwerp, people expected Allied food...
...meet the crisis Premier Pierlot rushed back from his country house to Brussels. From Paris, where he had gone for economic talks, rushed Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak. The cabinet met in emergency session. Cried Resistance Chief Demany: "There can be no compromise. . . . Since the Germans were driven out, two traitors have been shot out of 60,000 collaborators arrested. Now in one day we have four patriots killed by the police. That is the score-two traitors and four patriots! . . . We must not have a revolution. But we must have a succession of evolutions until we achieve...
...some hundreds of people in France who must be shot and some thousands who must be removed from their posts. By creating delays, some émigrés in the Government . . . risk falling into the plight of the Belgian Government, whose émigrés also learned nothing. The Pierlot Government ... is doomed sooner or later by prostituting itself and calling on foreign aid against the people...