Word: zeeland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London a procedure for dealing firmly with Germany's violation had just made its appearance in the form of a British White Paper (TIME, March 30). Returning from London to Brussels Premier Paul van Zeeland rose in the Belgian Chamber. "For the first time in history the British Government has defined in advance the course it would take in a given emergency," he cried. ''This unprecedented step was due to the fact that Belgium has so clearly given [Germany] no excuse for breaking the Locarno Treaty...
...Locarno Pact had simply vanished with the making by France and Russia of an altogether unrelated Military Treaty of Mutual Assistance (TIME, March 9 et ante). Last week M. Flandin in his efforts to get British thinking machines in motion was greatly assisted by Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland who, just before rushing to London to attend the League Council, spoke as follows to the Belgian Chamber...
After Pierre Etienne Flandin and Paul van Zeeland had thus spoken in clear, temperate language, His Majesty's Government found the honor and good faith of the United Kingdom engaged and tested. Famed British elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain (who was the chief architect of the Locarno Pact and was made a Knight of the Garter by King George for having erected this supposedly unbreakable barrier to war), vigorously jammed last week into British thinking machines his opinion that, since Germany in 1870 "dictated" to France and stripped her of two provinces, Germany in 1936 has no right...
Dispatches finally reported "victory for Mr. Eden" in getting Flandin and van Zeeland to agree that Germany should be invited to send a German delegation this week to London. This implied a return to the week's early British wish to hatch new accords with egg-breaking Germany. Simultaneously going forward in London last week were Eden-Flandin conversations of a most discreet character. An indiscreet French underling even said. "Of course it will not be necessary to bring sanctions to bear on Germany if we can get something better...
...only King Leopold but also Professor Paul van Zeeland, the "New Deal'' devaluationist Premier of Belgium, today frankly regard everything else as secondary to the menace of a Germany which is putting over one secret deal after another with Britain, the first to tear up the naval clauses of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, June 24), the second to tear up the air armament clauses (TIME, Jan. 6), and perhaps others suspected in Belgium but as yet undisclosed. Since King Leopold's sister is the Crown Princess of Italy, family ties make His Majesty a pleader...