Word: sons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold's household includes the three children of Astrid-Princess Josephine-Charlotte, 21, Crown Prince Baudouin, 18, Prince Albert, 15-and Mary Liliane's son, Alexandre, 7. It is an affectionate family circle. To the stepchildren, Mary Liliane is a gay, smiling maman...
...geographically, by deepening the division between Flemings (who tend to support the King) and Walloons (who distrust his alleged pro-Flemish sympathies). Leopold, said one report, favored a solution that would allow him to return to Brussels with honor vindicated and constitution upheld, then abdicate in favor of his son Baudouin...
...wife did not know the story; all she knew was that her husband could not be a traitor. But old friends shunned her. Her 13-year-old son Yaakov was expelled from his Boy Scout troop; she tried to keep the news from him, worked out stratagems to keep him indoors. "There were stories that we had a radio transmitter hidden in the refrigerator," she recalled, "that we signaled the Arabs from the window, that we hid the money the British paid us under the floor. But," she added bitterly, "no one ever came to investigate...
...Question of Sincerity. Lena Tobiansky sent her son to a children's camp, after changing their name to Bentov (son of goodness); but his identity leaked out and the other children called his father a traitor. Lena herself removed the shiny brass nameplate from her apartment door and moved to another part of the city...
Lena and her son Yaakov last week walked behind Meyer's coffin in solemn procession through Jerusalem, for Meyer Tobiansky was being reburied with military honors. His widow's hair had turned grey since last spring; her friends suddenly returned to her side, but she greeted them with unforgiving silence. She was bitter about the army and the press which had convicted and condemned her husband, but of Ben-Gurion she said: "He is a good...