Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply coming to this country to get a degree from Princeton. Of course if he should come to Washington, I would be very glad to see him." Not for an instant did Washington wiseacres believe it was as simple as all that. They are firmly convinced not only that Premier van Zeeland has an ulterior motive in coming to the U. S. to get his honorary degree from Princeton, but that President Roosevelt is responsible for bringing him. Vaguely, but with conviction, the wiseacres talk about the Oslo Group...
...Count Charles de Broqueville in 1934, with the special job of deflating Belgium's dangerously inflated currency. Parliament would not accept many of the reforms he suggested. Paul van Zeeland resigned in November, pulling the Broqueville Cabinet down with him. In March 1935, Paul van Zeeland became Premier of Belgium...
...through, unemployment has dropped, impoverished agriculture is now prosperous, but sober Paul van Zeeland sees himself in a larger role: leader of a new group of European powers. Hence his desire to placate Belgium's noisy Flemish minorities, hence his embarking on a quiet campaign no other Belgian Premier has dared: to make friends with The Netherlands...
...personal reasons also Paul van Zeeland is anxious to better relations with The Netherlands. Previous leader of the Oslo Group is elderly, conservative Hendrikus Colijn, Premier of The Netherlands. His was the idea of reviving the 1930 group. After much sly spadework it was on his invitation that members of the northern nations met quietly at The Hague on March 3. Premier Colijn has not the youth, the personality, perhaps even the ability of Paul van Zeeland. But he is an important figure. If Paul van Zeeland is quietly to replace him he is very anxious to keep...
Educational. No shrewd observer last week expected anything very definite to come from Premier van Zeeland's return to Princeton. They did not believe that he had anything so concrete as even a trade agreement to offer Mr. Roosevelt. They did believe that the trip was an exploratory gesture by the Roosevelt Administration and the Oslo group looking toward more definite action, some day. They believed that from his wholehearted admiration for President Roosevelt and the U. S. and his shrewd knowledge of European conditions. Premier van Zeeland was the best man on the Continent to make the trip...