Word: ze
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Little Corporal. This week the Christian Socialists stepped back for a Liberal try at the royal question. Leopold's younger brother, the Regent Prince Charles, asked the Liberals' Albert Devèze to form a government. Short, sprightly, a politician to the tips of his grey mustache, Devèze has been a Deputy Premier and Defense Minister since August 1949. Dubbed "le petit caporal" because he likes to prance on horseback in uniform, the new Premier-designate was said to be hopeful of a three-party agreement to recall Leopold on condition that the King abdicate immediately...
Crown Prince Baudouin. What made Devèze believe the stubborn factions were ready for harmony? "That's my secret," chirped the little corporal, then added brightly: "Have pity on the pianist...
...orphanage and a hospital for the poor, brought in food and medicines, cleaned up the filthy streets and buried the dead* -more than 5,000 of the 30,000 or so Philadelphians who had remained. Such men as Merchant Stephen Girard, French Refugee Dr. Devèze and former Negro Slaves Absalom Jones and Richard Allen worked with extraordinary heroism and leadership. As Author Powell discloses their steady gallantry, they take on the stature of American heroes...