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...Belgium, Catholic resistance (TIME, Feb. 17) is still strong, as shown by Rexist Leader Leon Degrelle's angry attack last week: "The main point, however, remains Hitler, the Axis and Rexism, which the priests bitterly tear by their teeth every Sunday morning in sermons full of hatred. . . . This abuse of religious freedom for provocation purposes in an atmosphere of rebellion, which is created by numerous Belgian priests, is absolutely intolerable...
...Nazis would permit its members to return as ordinary refugees. In Brussels pro-German Henri de Man, onetime Minister of Finance and President of the Belgian Labor Party, was rated as the Belgian equivalent of Pierre Laval in France. Leon Degrelle, flashy Führer of the Belgian Rexist (fascist) Party, was released from prison by the Nazis and worked hard to gain power...
Fascist editors took charge of leading newspapers, and a new Nazi organ, Brusseler Zeitung, assured Belgians daily that Germany had already won the war, that all Europe must be Nazified. Although the conquerors had not made their final will known, they patronized Rexist and Flemish extremists who advocated a new "Dietsch" State composed of Belgium, The Netherlands and northeastern France...
...take Germany's side against the Allies, serve as a springboard for German attack upon Britain and France, Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and Fiihrer Hitler had used threats and a Fifth Column. Neither worked. One of the first things that happened last Friday was the arrest of Rexist Leader Leon Degrelle, would-be Nazi Gauleiter of Belgium, and 2,000 of his followers. Force was the Nazis' last resort, and force was met with as effective force as a country of 8,300,000 can bring against one of 100,000,000. For in Leopold the Belgians have...
...Belgium's Léon Degrelle has been working sub rosa since April 1939, when his Rexists were roundly trounced in the Parliamentary elections. Last week, as Belgium placed Belgian ex-service men on guard over utilities and communications centres, no one seemed to know anything about Rexist Degrelle. But it was a safe guess that the Government had him where he would find it mighty inconvenient to quisle...