The Archive · 1940

Belgium King Solves Cabinet Crisis

Royal Rebuke Declares "Time Inopportune"

Brussels, Apr. 27.

The Belgian Cabinet crisis, precipitated by a split over the Government's education policy, has ended as a result of intervention of King Leopold.

M. Hubert Pierlot, the Prime Minister, and his ministry have decided to continue in office following the receipt of a letter from the King stating: hen the army is igilantly guarding the frontiers, and when the situation makes it the duty of all Belgians to be more united than ever, the time is inopportune for a Ministerial crisis on internal policy. I should be acting against the country's higher interests in accepting the resignation of the Government when the vote of the Senate confirmed that its foreign policy was almost unanimously supported by the nation."—Reuter.

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