BELGIAN CRISIS
TWO RIVAL GOVTS.
LONDON, October 31. Premier Pierlot summoned his Cab-Li inet this morning to discuss the situation which in some parts of the"'" country amounts almost to the exist-..;, ence of two rival systems of law and—" order, says Reuter’s Brussels corres-£i pondent. A communique stated that£« the Government had decided to allowthe many thousands of men of the Re-~ sistance Groups to join the Army££ police and other public services ori ;; “ a voluntary basis. g" The correspondent. adds that situation is complicated in the Char-rt? leroi-Mons-Tournai industrial belt*~ where the 8.F.1. (Belgian Forces o£g the Interior), have, in many taken the law into their own hands~~ and arrested alleged traitors and laborators. The Socialist Party, toArt day, invited other parties to exchange * views on financial, food and coal problems and the Government attitude
to the underground army and the: purge of traitors. Some observers believe this may result in the formation of a left wing opposition bloc.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 November 1944, Page 5
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