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Able young King Leopold again showed last week the tough metal of his Royal House. His late great father, King Albert, early picked and largely trained for the present job of Premier of Belgium sagacious young Economist Paul van Zeeland who recently conferred with President Roosevelt in Washington (TIME, July 5), and under whose management Belgian recovery has made astonishing strides. Because the Premier is more of a statesman than a politician, King Leopold has several times strongly intervened, as the late King...
Premier van Zeeland, shortly before he left Brussels for Washington last month as an economic emissary for Britain and France as well as his own country, was naturally much preoccupied with his mission, and permitted his Cabinet to be persuaded by militant Flemish Nationalists to introduce and rush through the Belgian Chamber just before he sailed a most controversial Amnesty Bill. This bill goes back to early days of the World War, when many Flemist Nationalists, eager at all times to set up Flanders as an independent country apart from Belgium, were duped into thinking Imperial Germany would aid their...
...plan in the making to have the U. S. take a direct interest in the Bank for International Settlements and supply some capital that could be used for stabilizing currencies abroad. But whether it was this or some entirely different plan, the mere presence of M. van Zeeland was enough to make news, for it opened the possibility of the U. S. finding some new diplomatic playmates in Europe. The British and French are deeply involved in the intricacies of European politics. A more useful diplomatic connection with Europe may be through the neutral Oslo Group of Scandinavian countries...
Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. While President Roosevelt went off to the Jefferson Islands Club for his weekend "charm school'' party (see col. j), the van Zeelands stayed for a round of Washington parties, visited New York and it was announced that Premier van Zeeland would return this week...
Washington for still more conferences before sailing home on the Normandie. Of one thing about the most important diplomatic event of the week Washington could be certain: M. van Zeeland, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hull were not spending long hours together playing ticktacktoe...