WAR NEWS IN BRIEF
BELGIAN CABINET
(Rec. 12.10 p.m.) j xi LONDON, September 26. Ac the Regent’s request, M. PierJot, to-mght, formed a new Government of Belgium with himself as Prime Minister, says the .Brussels remains Foreign Minister, M. Camille Gutt, Finance Minister, and M. De Kleeschauwer, Ministers for the Colonies. The Cabinet includes 19 members, the abovebeing the only ones who held office while the Government onerated in London. . TA e T nsw Cabinet comprises seven Catholics, five Socialists, three Liberals, two non-party members, and two Communists. It is the first time Communists have achieved Cabinet remesentation in Belgium. One member of the Resistance Movements receives a seat without portfolio. M. De Laveleye, the new Minister of Education, was the head of the Belgian national radio in London. M. Pierlot described the Cabinet as “a bodv of 1 C"nc-n z -/’- u :-n n
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1944, Page 6
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