1948 in Belgium

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1948
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The following events happened during 1948 in the Kingdom of Belgium.

Contents

Incumbents

Monarch Leopold III, with Prince Charles as regent
Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak

Events

Signatories of the Treaty of Brussels (1948) Pact van Brussel. De 5 ministers, Bestanddeelnr 902-6324 cropped.jpg
Signatories of the Treaty of Brussels (1948)

Publications

Deaths

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References

  1. 1 2 3 H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968).
  2. Chantal Bisschop, Meer dan boer alleen: Een geschiedenis van de Landelijke Gilden, 1950–1990 (Leuven University Press, 2015), p. 253.
  3. Fredie Floré, "Housing for War Victims, 1946–1948: A Problematic Building Project by the Belgian Government", in Living with History, 1914–1964: Rebuilding Europe After the First and Second Wars, edited by Luc Verpoest
  4. Bulletin de la Classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques (Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 1996), p. 186.
  5. August–September 1948 on Google Books.