Belgium (1951)

A Carl Dudley film from the This Is Our World Series about Belgium in the 1950s. 1950s, Belgium, Lion's Mound, Memorial of Waterloo 1815, agriculture, farming, horse-drawn plow, women gathering crops from soil, hands holding strawberries, workers spreading out and stacking flax to dry, men shoveling sugar beans into wagon, men watering and pruning flower field, grazing cattle, dairy industry, man pouring milk from pail into barrel, milkman with dog-propelled cart pouring and delivering milk, Liège, blast furnaces, metal industry, coal workers, textile industry, woman displaying Belgian linen, Bruges, elderly Flemish woman making Belgium lace, Seraing, Liège, Val Saint Lambert glassware factory, Brussels, street scenes, streetcars, trams, pedestrians, policemen, Place Rogier, guild halls, Grand Place, museums, galleries, masterpieces, Royal Palace of Brussels, changing of the guard, Brussels Parliament building, Brussels Airport, Sabena shuttle and terminal, passengers boarding Sabena plane, plane taxiing, Antwerp, street scenes, trams, streetcars, Port of Antwerp, shipbuilding, diamond cutting industry, flower field, cemetery with crosses and Stars of David headstones (possibly Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial), group of smiling children
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Whatever happened to the diamonds taken from the "Belgian" Congo 🇨🇩 🤔,
Did they get returned to Africa, or were they forever stolen property?