Word: zeeland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they were lucky. Years ago most of them put their savings into gold coins, plumped them into socks. These last week Professor-Premier van Zeeland had not the rapacity to touch...
Privately Catholics discussed with their priests the latest move of wavy-haired young King Leopold III in calling to the Premiership an economist untried in statecraft, Professor Paul van Zeeland, Vice Governor of the National Bank of Belgium. In her wisdom Mother Church could offer no fiscal consolation. Her attitude, cautiously reflected by the Catholic Press of Belgium, was that no good could be expected of van Zeeland, "an admirer of Roosevelt...
Within 72 hours after Broker Verviers' arrest for guessing at 25% devaluation, Premier van Zeeland, having first closed all exchanges, was telling the Belgian Chamber and Senate that he planned to devalue the belga by a maximum of 30% if other nations will join Belgium in an international monetary stabilization pact. If they will not, then the bright blue sky is Premier van Zeeland's devaluation limit...
...spirit of "national sacrifice" this step was taken (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926). Last week, up to the very moment of Premier van Zeeland's announcement, the 25-year pledge in which King Albert participated was cited reassuringly as a reason why Belgians need not fear devaluation under King Leopold. When the belga finally slid off gold, Flemish peasants, thriftiest in the world, demonstrated fiercely in their villages against "Our French King...
Snapped onetime Premier Henri Jaspar: "What has Roosevelt accomplished? What? The worst thing about van Zeeland is that he is acting in good faith and is thoroughly imbued with American ideas...