POSITION OF BELGIUM
DIPLOMATIC TALKS NEW WESTERN PACT LONDON, March G. Conversations are proceeding through diplomatic channels between London and Brussels owing to a delicate situation arising in connection with Belgian neutrality.
It is feared that with the receding chances of a Western pact, Hen-Hitler's promise in respect of Belgium’s territoriality may divorce Belgium from England and France.
M. Paul Van Zeeland, the Belgian Prime Minister, is anxious to maintain the Anglo-French-Belgium front, hut pressure by M. Degrelles and the proFascist Rexists complicates the situation, a solution of which the English and Belgian Governments are endeavouring to reach. The Brussels correspondent of The Times says that public opinion in Belgium is becoming increasingly apprehensive lest, a diplomatic stalemate ill Western Europe furnishes Herr Hitler with a, pretext for a new manoeuvre, making Belgium’s position even more difficult than it has been since the violation ol the I.ocnrno Treaty,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19267, 8 March 1937, Page 5
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