1948 in Belgium explained

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

Incumbents

Monarch – Leopold III, with Prince Charles as regent

Prime Minister – Paul-Henri Spaak

Events

• 1 January – Benelux Customs Convention comes into force.^[1]
• 17 March – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.
• 29 May – Alfred De Taeye's bill to incentivise the building of new homes passes.^[2]
• 23 July – Association belge des familles des disparus foundeed
• 22 August – Order in Council for the implementation of the De Taeye Act.^[3]
• 25 August – Treaty of Brussels, establishing the Brussels Pact for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence, comes into effect.
• 8 October – Agreement of Belgium and Luxembourg with the United States for exchanges under the Fulbright Program.^[4]

Publications

• Belgisch Staatsblad/Moniteur belge^[5]
• Jean Lejeune, Principauté de Liège

Deaths

• 17 September – Prosper Dezitter (born 1893), wartime collaborator

Notes and References

1. 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=-DzAUoEmW_EC August–September 1948