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Moscow might frown, but persistent Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak knew what he wanted: a Western European Bloc. Pausing briefly in Brussels last week on his way from London to Paris, he made a historic statement. Said he: twice in a generation Belgian neutrality had been violated, Belgium overrun; as a result Belgium had renounced forever her traditional policy of neutrality and independence. He added "The British will supply military equipment to us. A certain number of Belgian soldiers will go to Britain for training in British methods...
Bagpipes skirled as Canadian soldiers paraded "somewhere in Belgium" last week. While silk-hatted Belgian functionaries looked on, Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery pinned decorations on 60 Canadian officers and men. Over a loudspeaker, "Monty" said that the victory in the Battle of the Scheldt Estuary, fought largely by Canadian infantrymen, was "magnificent." He doubted that any other troops could have accomplished...
...never flown a plane. For the first time in his life he opened the throttles wide, took off, somehow managed to get headed west. Two hours and 400 miles later he was over an advanced field of the U.S. Ninth Air Force on the French-Belgian border. With no idea of how to land, he circled and circled. U.S. gunners trained on him, set his left engine afire and solved his landing problem...
Round 1. In Western Europe liberation had been a joyful binge. Now Europe had a hangover. In Brussels, as in Paris, there was still an afterglow of liberation gaiety-but it was forced. Belgians needed food, clothing, fuel. Transport was paralyzed. This week the Allied High Command began diverting 200 tons of food daily for 20 days, to help meet Belgian needs. It would bolster, it might save Premier Hubert Pierlot's Government. But in Belgium, as in France, Communism had grown and hardened under the Nazis. Belgian Communists sternly charged Pierlot's Government with inefficiency. Said London...
...France people, scared by the Belgian experiment, feared that the De Gaulle Government might try the same deflationary trick. Last week they scrambled frantically to buy U.S. dollars, British pounds and gold in the black market. Result: the franc, pegged at 2?, sank until a dollar was bringing 315 francs. The franc did not rise till Andre Istel, French delegate at the Bretton Woods conference, announced that France had no intention of following Belgium's plan. The Allies helped by recognizing De Gaulle. This implied releasing to his Government over $1 billion of French gold to put a solider...