POSTERS IN FLEMISH AND FRENCH, PARTY MEETINGS ADDRESSED BY PARTY LEADERS VANDEN BOEYNANTS, PAUL HENRI SPAAK AND VAN HOUDENHOVEN.


1.
GV ELECTION POSTERS IN STREET
0.04

2.
CU COMMUNIST POSTER
0.06

3.
CU POSTER FOR FLEMISH PLP
0.10

4.
LV INT..PEOPLE IN HALL, FLEMISH POSTER (PVV)
0.14

5.
LV PEOPLE SEATED IN HALL
0.17

6.
CU VAN HOUDENHOVEN SPEAKS
0.22

7.
SV PAN MEMBERS SIT ON ROSTRUM
0.26

8.
CU PEOPLE CLAP
0.30

9.
LV POSTERS OF SPAAK IN STREET
0.35

10.
LV PEOPLE LISTEN
0.39

11.
SV & CU SPAAK ADDRESSES PEOPLE
0.47

12.
LV FLEMISH HECKLERS YELL, WAVE HANDS
0.53

13.
GV STREET SHOWING ELECTION POSTERS
0.57

14.
LV PEOPLE IN HALL LISTEN
1.02

15.
LV VANDEN BOEYNANTS AT MICROPHONE
1.07

16.
CU DITTO
1.12

17.
LV PAN PEOPLE LISTEN IN HALL
1.16



Initials JRG/V/JH/BB



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Background: BELGIANS GO TO THE POLLS ON SUNDAY (MAY, 20) WITH THE LONG-STANDING LANGUAGE PROBLEM STILL ONE OF THE MAJOR ISSUES.

CAMPAIGN MEETINGS ARE IN FULL SWING. AT COURTRAI IN FLANDERS THE PRESIDENT OF THE FORMER LIBERAL PARTY, NOW CALLED THE PARTY FOR FREEDOM AND PROGRESS (PLP, OR PVV IN FLEMISH), MR. VAN HOUDENHOVEN RALLIED LISTENERS TO THE FLEMISH-SPEAKING CAUSE.

IN THE FLEMISH CATHOLIC TOWN OF LOUVAIN, MR. PAUL HENRI SPAAK, THE FOREIGN MINISTER CAMPAIGNING FOR HIS SOCIALIST PARTY (PSB) SPOKE IN FRENCH, THE OTHER OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE STATE. TUMULT BY FLEMISH HECKLERS BROKE OUT, AGAINST THIS WALLOON REPRESENTATIVE.

MR. VANDEN BOEYNANTS, PRESIDENT OF THE CATHOLIC PARTY, (PSC) SPOKE AT A MEETING OUTSIDE BRUSSELS.

THE NEW PARLIAMENT WILL MEET ON JUNE 10.

(A CHRISTIAN SOCIAL AND SOCIALIST COALITION GOVERNMENT TOOK OFFICE AFTER THE LAST ELECTIONS, IN 1961.)