SEPARATIST MOVE
DIVIDED BELGIUM CONSIDERABLE ANXIETY CAUSED (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 15. Tile “Morning Post’s” diplomatic correspondent at Brussels says progress of political elements in Belgium to further the German policy, even if ■not consciously pro-German, ! -is causing considerable anxiety, - and lhay endanger the position of Belgium as the keystone to western security. Flemish Nationalists; Mho revealed an unexpected strength at the elections, aim at separating Flanders from the rest of Belgium, incorporating it with Holland in a new Netherlands state, extending from Dunkirk to the Friesian Islands, leaving the Frenchspeaking population of Belgium, south from Brussels, free to join France.
More immediate demands are the complete financial autonomy of Flanders, suppression international agreements affecting Flanders including the FrancoLJebian military understanding:. These movements originated during the Great War, and wer e engineered by, Gertnanv as a valuable instrument for weakening the .Allies* , .... The Nazis are reported ,to have financially assisted jt'.,. ( .j t ; , 1 Thq recently, selected Fl.emi.sh Socialists oombining in t^e (; clemanj for the abandonment of plans,,for fortifying the eastern frontier.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1936, Page 5
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