ELECTORAL DUEL.
Belgian Premier’s Stand. Press Association—Copyright. Brussels, March 10. “I am acting in the interests of the country,” declared the Prime Minis ter, M. van Zeeland, who accepted M. Degrelle’s challenge to an electoral duel. M. Degrelle, leader of the Registe, last week ordered the Resist deputy for one of’the Brussels constituencies to resign, simultaneously announcing that he Would himself contest the byelection, challenging the Government to a trial of strength between its policy and his.
A crowded Chamber cheered M. van Zeeland's announcement that he w'ould oppose Degrelle personally “for the take 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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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 380, 11 March 1937, Page 5
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118ELECTORAL DUEL. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 380, 11 March 1937, Page 5
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