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...much more in mind than simply defeating Premier Gaston Eyskens' economic austerity program. He sought the downfall of the regime. He demanded a new socialized pattern for Belgium, with nationalization of industry and central economic planning. He wanted a division of his country into two federated regions-the Walloon south and the Flemish north. Unable for years to achieve this by normal political means, he had seized on the strike to try to impose his program from the streets...
...procession of strikers set off from the Socialists' headquarters in Brussels' Maison du Peuple to march through the streets in continued protest at the government's economic austerity program. The big steel plants around Liegè, Mons and Charleroi remained dark and empty. In the southern Walloon country, angry strikers set up roadblocks when the gendarmes were not around, hurled four-pronged nails on the roads to discourage profiteering taxi drivers...
Last week there was open talk of abolishing the present system of government in favor of a loose federation between two self-governing states, one Flemish, the other Walloon. In Brussels, Socialist Deputies from Wallonia held a meeting without the Flemish Socialist members, issued a communiqué without precedent in Belgian political history. The communiqué noted that "government policies accentuate and accelerate the deterioration of the economic situation of Wallonia," and declared that "if these policies are not changed, the Walloon people will have no alternative but the revision of the unitary institutions of the country in order...
Background: Born in Brussels on Jan. 25, 1899, Spaak, like his native land, is an amalgam of two widely divergent strains. His Flemish father was one of Belgium's best-known artists, a poet, playwright and director of the Brussels Royal Opera. His mother, a Walloon, was Belgium's first woman Senator, the daughter of one of the nation's great 19th century liberal leaders and the sister of a former Prime Minister...
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, 65, confessed to reporters that; he was nursing three or four cracked ribs which he had injured in a 35-m.p.h. spill while aquaplaning with Assistant Defense Secretary W. J. McNeil at Walloon Lake, Mich., on July 4. Recalling that he had broken his hip while ice skating and his shoulder while fox hunting, Wilson concluded ruefully: "I guess I'll have...