BELGIUM: Again, van Zeeland

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 program of...