ELECTORAL DUEL
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
PREMIER V. REXIST LEADER
BELGIAN POLITICS
United Press Association—By Electric Tele^
graph—Copyright.
BRUSSELS, March 10.
"I am acting in the interests of the country," declared the Prime Minister (M. Van Zeeland), who has accepted a challenge by the Piexist (Fascist) Leader (M. Leon Degrelles to an electoral duel.
M. Degrelle last week 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 "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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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 9
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