Word: poullet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some months the lack of confidence felt by Belgian bankers and industrialists in the Belgian Finance Ministry has been made manifest by their refusal to cooperate with Premier Poullet's Cabinet in its efforts to stabilize the franc, which has been steadily declining...
Finance Minister Janssen (Socialist) was obliged to resign, and the Cabinet fell last week when Premier Viscount Poullet at length found it impossible to hold together the highly complex Centrist-Socialist coalition, which has enabled the Poullet Cabinet to carry on for eleven months...
Recently he traveled to Italy, conferred with Mussolini, and returned to Belgium "fired with the ideal of action." Last week he acted up, scandalized most of his steady-going countrymen. His followers staged an anti-cabinet demonstration in Brussels, just as Crown Prince Leopold and Premier Viscount Poullet were about to receive the War standards of several disbanded Belgian regiments at the National Army Museum. Scattered throughout the crowd of 40,000 persons who witnessed this ceremony, the fledgling Fascists created a terrific uproar: "Keep the Army at full strength! Down with Poullet! Hang him! Vive la Belgique immortelle! Hurrah...
Amid pandemonium, the Fascists threw their own hats, and all the hats they could snatch, into the air. Mistaking a streetcar employe with a red "danger" flag for a Communist, they drubbed him soundly. Premier Poullet "turned pale," escaped discreetly through the back door of the Museum, leaving Crown Prince Leopold to receive the Fascists' cheers...
...days later, the Chamber showed its contempt for the Fascist movement by according an ovation to Premier Poullet, and then rushing through legislation designed to cut down the period of compulsory military service in the Belgian Army from twelve months...