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Into delirious Brussels came Premier Hubert Pierlot and the Government in Exile. They found less damage than they had feared, more food than they expected. On Belgium's small, neat farms and in the centers of the liberated towns, people shrugged at K rations, offered fresh food in return. But in the crowded working-class quarters there was hunger...
Last week in London exiled Belgian Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot broadcast to Belgians: "The enemy . . . hastens to put the finishing touch on his work of disorganization and destruction of the state. . . . On the deliverance of Belgium . . . the King will recover . . . the exercise of his prerogatives." Winston Churchill affirmed Allied support of the exiled Government. If the Germans had hoped to wreck Allied plans for Belgium by spiriting away the King, they had failed...
...radio. The U.S. slept on, but the radio worked as if it had the biggest audience in history. First, from London, came the rolling, authoritative voice of General Eisenhower, reading his proclamation to the people of Western Europe; then Norway's King Haakon and Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot...
Patriots and Puppets. European leaders in exile speedily followed with messages to their countrymen. Premiers Pieter S. Gerbrandy of The Netherlands and Hubert Pierlot of Belgium told their people of the opening of invasion, and called on them to resist the Germans "with all means . . . wherever resistance is possible." Both leaders added special warnings to underground fighters not to be tricked into premature action, but to follow only genuine Allied orders broadcast from London. Similar messages of encouragement and caution went to Norway from King Haason VII, to Poland from Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk...
...system pretty well intact (TIME, Jan. 25, 1943). Nazi exploitation and expropriation have presumably played havoc with Belgium's interior economy, left the true ownership of many properties in doubt. But even this factor-a specter of disintegration which overhangs all Europe-did not seem to worry Premier Pierlot. Comfortably, he recalled that Belgium still has her rich African Congo, now aboom with wartime demands for its rubber and minerals...