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Europe's most explosive crisis last week was in Belgium. The man who might detonate it. King Leopold III, was in St. Wolfgang in the Austrian Alps. Reports that he might come home sent angry citizens swirling through the streets, shouting: "Down with Leopold!'' "Hang the King!" Defiant Walloons (French-speaking Belgians) threatened to bar his reentry into the country with their bodies. Socialist Premier Achille van Acker threatened to resign if King Leopold set foot on Belgian soil. There were rumors that Britain might intervene to restore Leopold to his throne...
...could not flout the advice of Belgium's Premier, unless he could replace him with a less hostile Premier. But any Premier and Cabinet that favored the King's return could be fairly sure of a resounding no-confidence vote in Belgium's Parliament. To St. Wolfgang the King urgently summoned several leading Belgians for talks. Reports that Leopold would appoint prewar Premier Paul van Zeeland or Lieut. General Ganshof van der Meersh, a Resistance leader, as Premier were met by Brussels trade unions with threats of a general strike. Gloomed Van Zeeland: "I wish the next...
From strong-willed Queen Mary, the Belgian Queen received right royal counsel: Leopold must "be a King." Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte asked King Leopold to pay her a visit. Luxembourg is Belgium's southeastern neighbor. From St. Wolfgang, King Leopold promptly announced that there was "no question of abdicating," that he was proceeding with the formation of a new government...
Emil Jennings, back in U.S. pictures with a difference, was photographed at his villa in St. Wolfgang, Austria, as he played a familiar role for a new audience. To Allied questioners, the top-ranking Nazi actor-director explained that he made an anti-British film because Goebbels forced him to. Jannings, who once specialized at playing disintegrating old men, was beginning to look the part...
When the U.S. Army entered Weimar, it found that the mortal remains of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had disappeared on an iron-age pilgrimage never dreamed of by Poet Matthew Arnold. Also missing from its place beside Goethe in the city's Friedhof (cemetery) was the coffin of Goethe's great friend and fellow poet, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller...