Over their coffee and pistolets (rolls), Belgians found no hint in their morning papers that anything special was in the air. But by evening of the next day, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak had resigned. Belgians were so bewildered that they called their first political crisis in over a year la drole de crise, as they had once spoken of la drole de guerre (the phony war).
The Christian Social Party had beefed that a new $6,850,000 subsidy to state schools meant discrimination against "free" schools, which are mostly Catholic (TIME, May 10). Socialist Spaak's...
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