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Before noon all Europe knew of the tragedy. In Brussels Premier Paul van Zeeland held an emergency meeting of the Belgian Cabinet, boarded a plane for Lucerne to take back the body. When the news was broken to Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, mother of Queen Astrid, she prepared to fly to Brussels. Overcome by grief, she was forced to cancel the flight, went on by train. In London the death of Astrid coincided with the announcement of the engagement of the Duke of Gloucester, caused King George to order the British Court into a fortnight's mourning...
...people of Belgium Premier van Zeeland last week broadcast...
Every Belgian with a fixed income was quietly robbed by Professor Paul van Zeeland, the Kingdom's unsmiling New Deal Premier, when he devalued the National currency (TIME, April 8). This public loss left the Treasury with a public gain of 3,500,000,000 francs ($118,000,000) in the value of its gold stocks. Designating this last week as "profit," Premier-Professor van Zeeland ordered Minister of Public Works Henri de Man to spend the entire sum during the next three years on making work for Belgium's jobless...
Meanwhile Premier van Zeeland saw Belgium's money sag sadly on foreign exchange last week to the lowest value touched since he officially devalued last March...
That situation Premier Flandin handled, as well as he could, by sending France's Minister of Commerce Paul Marchandeau to Brussels this week. There M. Marchandeau will tell Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland that France, unable to permit Belgium to flood her with goods at devaluation prices, must follow Great Britain in upping tariffs against Belgium. In the French Chamber, despite a croak from No. 1 French Socialist Leon Blum, the Deputies of France voted rousing gold standard confidence in the Flandin Government...