The Archive · 1938

Craft May Be Salvaged

After landing at Manila at 7 p.m, the Germans were taken to the Brussels, Dec. 6.

The resignation of the Socialist ministers In the Belgian Cabinet is foreshadowed following a. resolution passed by a special congress of the Belgian Labour Party yesterday, rejecting the Government's decision to send an agent to Franco Spain. The vote in favour of the resolution totalled 972,450, and that against, 187,598, with 7,820 abstentions.

Speaking before the resolution was passed, M. Paul-Henri Spaak, the Prime Minister, declared that if Con-condemned the attitude of misters, a crisis was inevitable.

He warned the Congress against a return to sterile opposition, and said that a Government crisis would involve grave consequences for democracy, and would probably lead to the dissolution of Parliàment.

M. Balthazar, Minister for Public Works, explained clearly that passing the resolution would involve the resignation of the Socialist ministers, After the resolution had been passed, the Socialist ministers met, and it was decided to summon the Cabinet last night. The Government may meet the Chamber today and if the Socialists opposed the Government, the Socialist Ministers would resign.—Reuter.

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