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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the housemaid plainly did not know it, she and the Queen Mother, who tends to patronize Belgium's Communists, probably saw eye to eye about the election's dominant issue. That issue was "the royal question": should the Queen Mother's exiled son, King Leopold III, be recalled to the throne from which he had been barred by Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: The Royal Question | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Leopoldist argument was made by the Catholic ex-Premier Paul van Zeeland: "The Belgian is a man who likes things in their right places. At the bottom of every Belgian heart is the feeling that the royal question has not been put in its right place . . . We believe the King should come back, but, of course, only if most of the people want him back . . . We want to consult the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: The Royal Question | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Most experts agree that this general "revaluation" has to come sometime. The question is when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: The Quiet Crisis | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...Hungary's dreaded Minister of the Interior. Since Rajk's name had headed the single list of candidates in his district, his election had seemed sure. When the rapporteur of the Mandate Credentials Committee omitted Rajk's name from the list of new deputies, an uneasy question began to be asked around Budapest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Down the Sink | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...week's end, Israeli representatives in Washington emerged sweating from a two-hour conference in the air-conditioned offices of Acting Secretary of State James E. Webb. The Israelis were smarting from a U.S. rebuke for their stand on the refugee question, but they were still adamant. Next day the Israeli embassy sharply announced that Ethridge had "misrepresented" Israel's stand on the Arab refugee question. Final peace in Palestine, it seemed, would have to wait until the neighbors were on speaking terms again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: No Talk, No Peace | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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