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...politician, one of the leaders of the Catholic Party and onetime Minister of Finance (1934). But though Scholar Sap has been professor of economics at Louvain University, Politician Sap is not a man to forget a grudge. Independently wealthy, Gustave Sap has been frequently named the financial backer of Rexist Leon Degrelle, Belgian Fascist leader who was soundly trounced at the polls by black-haired, red-mustached Premier Paul van Zeeland five months ago (TIME. April...
...accounts. Parliament believed him. Gustave Sap's own Catholic Party demanded that he either apologize publicly or leave the organization. Gustave Sap refused to do either, sued a number of his Catholic brethren for slander, but from then on attacks on Paul van Zeeland were generally made by Rexist Leader Leon Degrelle...
Last week the question of the Belgian Premier's double salary was reopened with a bang. Rexist Degrelle declared that. whether or not the Premier was getting his money, the National Bank of Belgium still carried Paul van Zeeland's 600,000 Belgian franc salary on its books. It was thereupon revealed that at least part of this sum had been quietly pocketed by the bank's Governor Louis Franck and the other directors. Nobody was greatly exercised when Premier van Zeeland belatedly admitted that he had accepted bonuses in 1934 and 1935 when he had left...
...March 12-Don't criticize the Rexist [Belgian Fascists] movement of Degrelle...
Although reporters found Rexist Degrelle looking utterly sunk and blaming his defeat on the lack of silence from Malines, his Fascist dander was soon up again, and Berlin was expected to pour heavy contributions into fresh efforts to turn Belgium Rexist. Exulted Victor van Zeeland: "The result has exceeded my wildest hopes! And now to work-all together, for King, Law and Liberty...