Word: pierlot
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot...
...Henri Spaak fell on that issue. It was suspected that King Leopold had backed the appointment. After that Belgian statesmen struggled to form Cabinets, failed in dizzy succession. Soon the suspicion was rife that the King had dictatorial ambitions. Last week a shortlived Cabinet-that of Walloon Premier Hubert Pierlot-was again about to resign when His Majesty stepped in. He refused to accept the resignations, ordered new elections on April 2 and then sat down and wrote his ministers an extraordinary letter in which he pleaded not guilty of either dictatorial ambitions or of appointing Dr. Martens. Without mincing...
...asked Walloon Catholic Henri Jaspar, who had been Premier from 1926 to 1930, to form a new Cabinet. After two days of fruitless interviews, Jaspar gave up; 36 hours later he died of a stomach ulcer about which he had told no one. Former Cabinet Minister Hubert Pierlot, also a Walloon-Catholic, tried next. He built up a Cabinet of Catholics and Socialists which toppled after exactly one week. King Leopold, who is said to feel that something old and yet new in the world-autocracy-might not be bad for Belgium, this week stepped in with a firm hand...