DELICATE SITUATION
BELGIAN NEUTRALITY
DIPLOMATIC CONVERSATIONS
LONDON, March 6.
Conversations are proceeding through diplomatic channels between London and Brussels owing to a delicate situation arising in connection with Belgian neutrality. It is feared that-with the receding chances;- of a western pact, Herr Hitler's promise to respect Belgium's territoriality may divorce Belgium from England and France.
The Premier, M. Van Zeeland, is anxious to maintain an Anglo-French-Belgian front, but pressure by M. Leon Degrelle's pro-Fascist Rexists complicates the situation, a solution of which the English and Belgian Governments are endeavouring to reach.
Tixii Brussels correspondent of "The Times" says that public opinion in Belgium is becoming increasingly apprehensive lest a diplomatic stalemate in Western Europe may furnish Herr Hitler with a pretext for a new manoeuvre, making Belgium's position ever more difficult than it has been since the violation of the Locarno Pact.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 9
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142DELICATE SITUATION Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 9
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