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...Belgium last week the crisis came to a head. Ever since his return from exile, Belgium's Communists have attacked Premier Hubert Pierlot. They have criticized his Government's courageous but unpopular deflation program (TIME, Nov. 6), its slowness in purging collaborators, its handling of food rationing and crippled communications. When Premier Pierlot last week ordered Belgian Resistance groups (40,000 strong) to disarm and disband, his three leftist ministers (two Communists and one Resistance) resigned in noisy protest...
...there was still an afterglow of liberation gaiety-but it was forced. Belgians needed food, clothing, fuel. Transport was paralyzed. This week the Allied High Command began diverting 200 tons of food daily for 20 days, to help meet Belgian needs. It would bolster, it might save Premier Hubert Pierlot's Government. But in Belgium, as in France, Communism had grown and hardened under the Nazis. Belgian Communists sternly charged Pierlot's Government with inefficiency. Said London's New Statesman and Nation: "This is the opening round in the struggle between new revolutionary forces ... and groups wishing...
...week, the Belgian parliament, meeting for the first time since 1940 on Belgian soil, temporarily gave him a royal job. Regent Charles's first act was to announce that he was merely keeping the throne warm for his brother. Then he accepted the wholesale resignation of Premier Hubert Pierlot's cabinet-in-exile, started looking for a new government...
...Said Pierlot: "The Government will direct its efforts to the restoration of the national life, the liberation of Belgium and the King. . . . Elections will be held . . . after voting lists have been revised and prisoners returned...
...Premier Pierlot and his Government, in office since before the Germans came, had promised to resign when liberation was a fact. But they needed a king to resign to, and Leopold was a prisoner in Germany. Nervously they talked of a regency...