BELGIUM'S GRAVE HOUR
STRONG MEASURES BY THE GOVERNMENT
LONDON, May 20. "Agitators and propagandists are active throughout Belgium, trying to paralyse economic recovery and create disorder," declared the Belgian Prime Minister, M. Van Acker, broadcasting from Brussels radio. "They have already incited a coal strike, and if they succeeded in bringing on a general strike Belgium would be faced with famine within a few days," he said. "The Government has 1 therefore decided to prohibit strikes for three months and has ordered the arrest of all agents provocateurs and fifth columnists and the suspension of newspapers seeking to create disorder. I do not want to exaggerate or dramatise, but I must tell you that this is a grave hour. Our food stocks are virtually non-existent, and a general strike would plunge the country into chaos."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 5
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