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Even a king as young as Leopold III could not miss that cue. Next day the mob was saying that His Majesty had sent M. Jaspar packing and M. Jaspar was saying that he had voluntarily returned the royal mandate because he could not get M. Francqui into his Cabinet...
Since both the Catholic and Liberal parties have pledged themselves to maintain the belga on gold, Dr. Sap should have been popular among his colleagues. He balanced the budget last month, and, with Foreign Minister Henri Jaspar, rallied all the gold bloc countries to stand together at the Brussels Conference (TIME, Oct. 29). In the end, however, Dr. Sap's economies, imposed on each and every Minister, made him the Cabinet's Simon Legree. When, having already cut civil servants' salaries 24%, Dr. Sap insisted last week that he must cut them 5% more, the Cabinet resigned...
Promptly His Majesty asked Gold-Standardist Henri Jaspar to form a Cabinet. M. Jaspar at once tried to get as Finance Minister Belgium's squat old Copper King and No. 1 banker, M. Emile Francqui, stabilizer of the Belgian franc in 1926. Before the Cabinet slate was announced last week, Brussels proletarians heard that it would contain a director of the Liége National Arms Factory, began murmuring against "The Gun Makers' Cabinet...
...present this alternative in an appropriate atmosphere, Foreign Minister Henri Jaspar of Belgium succeeded in assembling at Brussels last week a conference of the entire Gold Standard Bloc: France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Poland. The Poles had at first refused to attend. At the last minute Warsaw got wind that Paris was prepared to make handsome concessions all round to keep the Bloc on gold. In a wild scramble a "Polish Delegation'' to the Brussels Conference was hastily recruited at the Polish Legation in Brussels...
...Conference rose, promising to reassemble within three months, Belgium's Henri Jaspar rubbed his hands in satisfaction. The Netherlands' delegates on their way home were pained to hear that a Netherlands Society for Managed Currency had just been formed to get Holland off the gold standard "by all the legitimate means at its disposal...