The Archive · 1937

Coalition Cabinet for Belgium

M. Paul-Henri Spaak Able to Reach Compromise Brussels, Nov. 8.

Despite the refusal of M. Paul Hymans, Leader of the Liberal Party, to ce-operate, M. Paul Henri Spaak, Foreign Minister in the last Cabinet, {has virtually succeeded in forming a new Coalition Government com-{prising six Socialists, six Catholics and three Liberals. It is rumoured that M. Henri de Mans will be given the important portfolio of Finance. M. Spaak is also president of the Nine-Power Conference.—Reuter.

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