ELECTORAL DUEL
— Prew Aesi
Belgian Premier & Rexist Leader TRIAL OF STRENGTH
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(Eeceived 11, 8.45 a.m.) BEUSSELS, March 10. "I am acting in the interests of the country," declared the Premier, M. Paul van Zeeland, who haa accepted M. Leon Degrelle'a challenge to an electoral dueL M. Degrelle, who is the leader of the Fascist Bexist Party, last week ordered a Eexist deputy for one of the Brussels constituencies to resign, simultan-
eously announcing that he himself would contest the by-election, thereby challenging the Government to a trial of Btrength between their policy and his. A crowded Chamber eheered M. van Zeeland 's annonncement that he would oppose M. Degrelle personally, "for the sake of democracy and Parliamentary Government." The by-election will be held in April and is likely to be one of the fiercest in Belgian history.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 47, 11 March 1937, Page 5
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