BELGIAN P.M. SEEKS TRUCE
<N Z.P A. Reuter — Copyright) BRUSSELS, Feb. 8. The Prime Minister, Mr Pierre Harmel, will address Parliament today to call for a general truce in the crisis now shaking Belgium.
But it is not expected that he will make definite proposals for solving the war between the Socialist Party, a
I member of his coalition, and (the 9000 Belgian doctors demanding that free hospital | treatment be banned. Earlier, there had been rei ports that Mr Harmel might ask for emergency powers to solve the health insurance crisis and other social and economic problems. Mr Hannel’s Social Christian Party has supported the doctors’ main claims, but the Socialists demand that free medical treatment be maintained. The split in the coalition led last week to the Cabinet’s resignation. King Baudouin refused to accept the resignation and called on the government and doctors to resume compromise talks. The doctors responded by postponing their call for an immediate nation-wide strike. The Socialist Party’s executive, in an emergency meeting last night maintained its opposition to the doctor’s demand.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30980, 9 February 1966, Page 13
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