BELGIAN BY-ELECTION
Rexist Leader's Defeat Expected (Received 17, 8.45 a.m.) BRUSW3VL/I5, The momentous by-election arlslngj out of the Premier's acceptance of the! challenge of the Rexist leader, M. Leonj Degrelle, to an electoral duel has been. fixed for April 11. M. Van Zeeland will be supported byi Catholics, Liberals, Socialists and Com-i munists, the last-mentioned regardingi Tii-m as representing anti-Fascist opin-j ion, while M. Degrelle is regarded as aj follower of Herr Hitler and Signori Mussolini. . j M. van Zeeland 's election is thought certain, but the fight will be very bitter. The figures will show whether the Rexists are making the- progress they claim. "I am acting in the interests of the«ountry," declared the Prime Minister in accopting the challengo by the Rexist leader. M. Degrelle ordered a Rexist deputy for one of the Brussels constituencies to resign, simultaneously announcing that he would himself contest the by-election, challenging the Government to a trial of strength between their policy and his. A crowded Chamber cheered M. Van Zeeland 's announcement that he would oppose M. Degrelle personally "fcr the sako of domocracy and Parliamentary government.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 52, 17 March 1937, Page 6
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185BELGIAN BY-ELECTION Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 52, 17 March 1937, Page 6
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