Word: zeeland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally acting and talking as if Belgium were a ripe plum just about to plump itself by an avalanche of votes into his lap-as Germany plumped into Hitler's. In his campaign speeches last week Orator Degrelle roared that his academic, scholarly opponent Premier Dr. Paul van Zeeland is "tainted with Americanisms," referred to Economist van Zeeland's professorial work at Princeton in scathing terms, accused him of "copying his economic policies off the blackboards of the Roosevelt Brain Trust...
...Cabinet of Professor van Zeeland is supported by a necessarily loose coalition of Catholics, Liberals, Socialists and Communists. It is typical of the setup of Democracy against which dictators rail, scoffing that efficiency is impossible if the head of the state has to spend most of his time conciliating the views of supporters so diverse. Challenged by Degrelle and his Rexist Party, however, the Cabinet parties pulled themselves together, urged Professor van Zeeland, who had never run for an elective office, to do so as a personal challenge to Demagog Degrelle. They assured the Premier he would be elected...
...ballots out of a total of 340,000. This spring it has been Degrelle's boast that he would win 100,000 and it was agreed last week that that would mean a "decisive Rexist victory"-even though the rest of the votes would surely elect Professor van Zeeland...
Amid a drizzling rain 275,840 Brussels ballots went to van Zeeland, 69,242 to Degrelle and 18% were blank. This was "Victory for Democracy." It made Adolf Hitler so angry that his personal Berlin newsorgan Volkischer Beobachter told Germans: "The election result was falsified in advance by the statement from the Archbishop of Malines...
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...