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Egged on by his Socialist supporters. Premier Paul Emile Janson, who has headed Belgium's coalition Cabinet of Liberals, Socialists and Catholics for the past six months, last week asked for increased taxes to carry on his social reforms. Catholic members, loud in their demands for cuts in Government expenditures, promptly bolted M. Janson's coalition, joined their own bitterest enemies, the pro-Nazi Rexist party of Léon Degrelle, to vote against the tax proposals. M. Janson then chose to resign...
...title conferred by the late King Albert I, was on his way (TIME, Feb. 28). In a seven-day "sentimental journey" he toured reconstructed War areas, which he had not visited since he accompanied President Wilson in 1919. After conversing with young King Leopold III, Premier Paul Emile Janson and Foreign Minister Paul Spaak, the former President left for Lille, France, two medals the richer...
Health Minister Wauters had hardly refuted this accusation when a Rexist Deputy swaggered up to Belgium's present namby-pamby Premier Paul Emile Janson, and offered him a sealed envelope supposedly containing evidence for further charges against Wauters. At this new example of fascism turned smearism, the mild Premier for once showed spunk. "Did you, sir, steal these?" he shrilled. "And where?" Then he treated the Chamber to a denunciation of Rexist tactics, dramatically returned the unopened envelope to its purveyor...
After failing to form a new Cabinet fortnight ago, M. Paul Emile Janson went before Parliament last week as head of another Cabinet, the first Liberal Premier of Belgium since 1884. Brussels political experts figure he has a majority of 70 in the Chamber. In effect M. Janson simply reformed the Cabinet of nonparty Economist Professor Paul van Zeeland (TIME, Nov. 1), expected by many last week to return as Premier after the courts confirm a Parliamentary vote which recently cleared him of charges in connection with a scandal at the National Bank of Belgium (TiME, Sept. 20 et ante...
During the War, able Liberal Janson worked under Relief Director Herbert Hoover, became Defense Minister in 1920, has since been Minister of Justice four times, today is the uncle of his own Foreign Minister, Paul Henri Spaak. Often a representative of Belgium at sessions of the League of Nations, Premier Janson is rated conscientious, independent of mind and a brilliant orator. "My new Government," he declared, "will continue Belgium's policy of steering clear of foreign alliances...