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...Belgian crisis reached a new climax. For three miles through Brussels' streets stretched an army of Belgian Resistance groups, demonstrating against their Government's order to surrender their arms. In front of the Chamber of Deputies and the office of Premier Hubert Pierlot police scuffled with the demonstrators. Sticks and stones thudded, grenades exploded, rifles cracked. Casualties (as reported by the Resistance forces): four demonstrators killed, 38 wounded...
...week Belgium's Communists and other leftists had inflamed the Resistance forces to defy the Government. Now they had got what they wanted-martyrs and a lethal slogan: "Pierlot Assassin! Pierlot Assassin...
...Premier Pierlot did not budge. His Government set a deadline for surrender of Resistance weapons, on pain of "legal proceedings." He said: "We want liberty with order." Said Britain's Major General G. W. E. J. Erskine, head of the Allied Military Mission in Belgium: "Allied forces will assist the Government with the view of insuring respect for law and order because both are essential for the conduct of military operations...
...ministers beat a tactical retreat, told their followers: "Personal arms must be surrendered. . . . The Resistance must do everything in its power to maintain order . . . avoid any conflict with Allied armies." But 15,000 Belgians with Hammer-&-Sickle flags marched through Brussels streets and continued to shout: "A bas Pierlot!" (Down with Pierlot...
Crisis in Italy. In Italy the Government of Premier Ivanoe Bonomi faced a crisis almost as acute as that threatening Premier Pierlot. In Rome, the Socialists and Communists (whose Naples membership had bounded from 2,000 to 60,000 in a year) staged a huge public rally. Up the Palatine Hill trudged thousands of men & women, carrying big pictures of Stalin and Lenin and Hammer-&-Sickle flags. Soon the Domitian Stadium (some 175 yds. long by 52 wide) was jammed with 25,000 red-shirted demonstrators. Most of them were middleclass...