BELGIAN NEUTRALITY
Fears That She May Incline to Germany REXIST ACTIVITY
(Reeeived 8, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 6. Conversations are proceeding through diplomatio channels between London and Brussels owing to a delicate situation arising in connection with Belgian neutrality. It is feared, with the receding chances of a Western Pact, and Herr Hitler's promise to respect Belgium's territoriality may divorce Belgdum from England and France. The Premier, M. Paul van Zeeland, is anxious to maintain the Anglo-Frehck-Belgian front, but pressure by M. Leon Degrelle, leader of the proEascist Rexists, complicates the situation. a soJution of which the English and Belgian Governments are endeavouring to reach. ' The Times' Brussels correspondent says that publio opinion in Belgian is becoming increasingly apprehensive lest a diplomatio stalemate in Western Europe may furnish Herr Hitler with a pretext for a new manoeuvre} making Belgium's position even more difficult than it has been since the violation of the Locarno Pact.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 44, 8 March 1937, Page 5
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