Word: zeeland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sacred Mission." President of the Assembly was that famed little Czechoslovak, Dr. Eduard Benes, but he could not leave home, having been elected President of his Republic (TIME, Dec. 30). The Assembly therefore had to elect a President last week, chose Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland of Belgium, who played an important backstairs role in promoting the Hoare-Laval deal which nearly made peace between Italy and Ethiopia last winter...
Once in the chair, Professor van Zeeland read to the Assembly an extremely long and conciliatory note from Italy most pleasing to Britain. It promised that Il Duce will not raise a great Ethiopian army of conscript blacks -the one thing Britain fears, since with it Italy might upset the balance of power in Africa-and concluded in Benito Mussolini's nearest approach to a dove-cooing vein: "Italy will consider it an honor to inform the League of Nations of the progress achieved in her work of civilizing Ethiopia. . . . Italy views this work as a sacred mission...
Belgium's young King Leopold last week entered the third week of his search for a Premier. He had lost a good one in able, young Premier Paul van Zeeland when the Belgian elections made the Socialists, instead of van Zeeland's Catholics, the Chamber of Deputies' biggest party. Van Zeeland's men had lost many seats to the Rexists, wild, new, Catholic-Fascist party of young Léon Degrelle. When van Zeeland resigned, he precipitated a partisan brawl among the National Union parties (Catholics, Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists) who had supported his effective...
King Leopold offered the Premiership to Socialist Leader Emile Vandervelde. The Catholics refused to support him. Last week the King turned again to van Zeeland. The "folded arms" strikes sweeping France had been copied by Belgian stevedores, diamond cutters, miners, munitions workers. Less tolerant than French police, Belgian police threw the strikers forcibly out of mines and factories they had occupied. In this atmosphere, Socialists and Liberals still refused to support van Zeeland. The King asked him to try again. Again he failed. The King spent a day talking turkey to Belgian politicians, told van Zeeland to try once more...
...Eden of Britain, Flandin of France, van Zeeland of Belgium, Baron Aloisi sent an embarrassing message...