1938 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Leopold III
- Prime Minister â Paul-Ãmile Janson (to 15 May); Paul-Henri Spaak (from 15 May)
Events
- 12 March â Henri de Man resigns as finance minister after his fiscal proposals are rejected.
- 13 May â Paul-Ãmile Janson's governing coalition falls apart.
- 15 May â Paul-Henri Spaak forms a government of national unity.
- 9 October â Municipal elections
- 11 September â 26th Gordon Bennett Cup held in Liège.
Publications
- Willem Elsschot, Het Been
- Marius Valkhoff, Philologie et littérature wallonnes (Gronginen and Batavia, J. B. Wolters)[1]
Art and architecture
Births
- 3 April â Gérard Sulon, footballer (died 2020)
Deaths
- 14 July â Charles Liebrechts (born 1858), explorer
- 27 December â Emile Vandervelde (born 1866), politician
