HEAVY DEFEAT
THE REXIST LEADER
BELGIAN BY-ELECTION
EFFECT OF CHURCH VOTE
United Press Association— By PU'irtrii Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April 12, 1.10 p.m.) = BRUSSELS, April 11. , In the Brussels by-election M. Van Zeeland, . the Premier, secured 275,840 votes, and M. Leon Degrelle, the Rexist leader, 69,242. Invalid and blank, votes totalled 18,368. ; '■• . ; M. Degrelle attributes .his failure to i an appeal by Cardinal Joseph Van Roey,
Archbishop of Malines; and head of. the Roman Catholic Church. ;in Belgium^ whvadvised,.all the Catholics to.,vote against ;M. Degrelle, the Rexist leader. In a letter to the Press, he declared:—*
"The Catholic Church condemns Rexist methods and' principles, which
endanger the Church." He. called.on Catholics to vote, against the Rexists, saying: "It is not enough merely-to return blank papers." - • ■ . '
The Brussels Press publishes what purports to be an. agreement the Rexists and the Flemish- National Union aiming at the transformation of Belgium into a corporative federal State under a dictatorship, gradually increasing Flemish authority in Brussels.' ■ ; ■ . : ' '.■'■..'..■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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161HEAVY DEFEAT Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 10
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