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...Belgian Socialist who hissed Queen Elisabeth in Antwerp last week, and for every Flemish Frontist who threw leaflets at Her Majesty, throngs of loyal subjects cheered lustily, sang the Royal Anthem. Police arrested four Socialists for hissing, five Flemings for leafleting. Born a German, the able Queen is considered pro-French by rabid sectionalists who want "Flanders for the Flemings!" Whether she really enjoyed it or not, Queen Elisabeth sat through a long Flemish opera, alert, gracious, regal...
...socialite, tutored abroad, summered at Newport, she overcame her early handicaps and became a surprisingly serious novelist. Her novelette Ethan Frame is still spoken of respectfully by bumptious younger critics. Though she has lived in France since 1906, her books have been stanchly U. S. products, except for a pro-French interlude during the War. By her juniors she is rated respectfully as an old lady writer of surprising youth, surprising up-to-date notions. Among her many books: The House of Mirth, Old New York, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, Twilight Sleep, Hudson River Bracketed...
...Pro-French Brussels is of course fiercely anti-Fleming. The photograph showed Queen Elisabeth not merely in the company of Flemings but Flemings drinking Flemish beer. At Her Majesty's elbow loomed a beer keg. Around her in attitudes made classic by Franz Hals lolled a group of Flemish gentlemen carelessly attired, puffing blissfully at their Flemish pipes...
...luke warm to hot in shouting that we oughtn't to collect from France what they certainly owe us! You know the men I mean-such as Myron Timothy Herrick. If Kaiser Wilhelm had given him the Iron Cross and if he had become as pro-German as he became pro-French, only Heaven knows what might have happened...
There came a climax to the pro-French policy of Belgium's Premier Theunis and Foreign Minister Jaspar. They proposed a Franco-Belgian economic convention. They took it to the Chamber. It was defeated 95-79. M. Theunis resigned and, in spite of King Albert, refused to reconsider...