Activities Described as Intolerable in Brussels Chamber "Brussels, June 14.
Nazi activities in Belgium were vigorously flayed in the Chamber of Deputies during yesterday's session, several members demanding an energetic stand by the Government.
Premier Hubert Pierlot promised to defend the country, from foreign interferences.
Deputy Louis Pierard of the Sodalist party, deplored the fact that a Prussian Prince was recently permitted to speak at Eupen, one of the two territories regained by Belgium following the Great War.
He considered it intolerable that official German representatives should want to know the political or religious convictions of Belgiam subjects representing German firms, threatening reprisals if they were to have any Jews on their staff.
The Deputy concluded in demanding a vigorous protest to the German Ambassador to Belgium. He also asked for an investigation into the sources of income of certain Belgian journals.
Deputy Balthasar, another Socialist. member, outlined a series of occurtences in the two redeemed cantons of Eupen and Malmedy, denouncing the friendship between the Flemish Nationalists and the Nazis.
The Premier admitted the veracity of certain of the facts which, he said, had already been the subject of an exchange of views with the German Government, He promised to investigate those of which the Government had not yet been informed. He asserted that he intended to defend the domestic independence of the country as much as its freedom in other spheres.—Havas.
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