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...with darkly shadowed eyes, Harold Burton is as conservative as Robert Taft, though he frequently disagrees with him (Burton was for conscription 100%). Dispassionate, honest, he has few close friends, many admirers. His Yankee ancestors fought in the American Revolution. He himself fought in the Meuse-Argonne, won the Belgian Croix de Guerre and the U. S. Order of the Purple Heart...
Other Men of Good Will in that amorphous, hopeful group were the Frenchmen Daladier, Georges Bonnet, Yvon Delbos (whom Romains says he made Foreign Minister), Ambassador André Francois-Poncet; Belgian Cabinet Minister Henri de Man; presumably many whom Good Willman Romains does not name. They believed that "nothing good could ever come of war," devoted themselves to plotting peace coups which somehow never came off. The greatest of these plots was hatched by Henri...
...Washington last week Speaker Frans van Cauwelaert of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives issued a not-too-convincing rebuttal. Said he: "There was no treason involved. The King gave himself up in order to share the fate of his Army. He was then and is now a prisoner of war. The Belgian Ministers in London are still loyal to the King and, having pledged cooperation with the British cause, are working for victory and the day of the King's release...
...recently bought an old house in downtown Philadelphia, decided to warm it with a party, advertised in newspapers for guests, limited their visit "to ten minutes for men over 18-ladies over 16." He drew about 1,000 people, who received a pamphlet written by Thaw on the Belgian food crisis, listened to a five-piece orchestra play Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, gulped free soda pop, watched Thaw eat dinner in the kitchen, were ushered out soon after 9 p.m. by city detectives...
...reach England. His ship, loaded with contraband, heard an S. O. S. every day of the trip and was stopped by the British Navy for inspection the day of the Athenia disaster. Steering a zig-zag course across the Atlantic, the Dutch boat almost met disaster by following a Belgian ship in the English Channel. The Belgian ship, a half hour ahead on the same course, struck a mine off Plymouth and was blown to bits...