BELGIUM: Theunis Back

Ex-Premier Georges Theunis did not go to the Riviera (TIME, March 10).

He stayed in Brussels.

King Albert asked Baron Houtart, Catholic Deputy for Tournai, to form a new cabinet. He refused, saying that only M. Theunis was suited to the office under the present circumstances.

MM. Paul Hymans, Adolf Max Pechael and Albert Deueze, all Liberals, called upon M. Theunis, Catholic Party, promised him Liberal support if he would consent to form a new cabinet. As this would give his ministry a solid majority in the Chamber, M. Theunis informed the King that he would head a new government.

The chief feature of the cabinet is that M. Jaspar is replaced by M. Paul

Hymans at the Foreign Office; he will again practice at the bar. M. Hymans, also a lawyer, is well known as a statesman. In 1920 he was President of the Assembly of the League of Nations.