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...Englishman Oscar Millard, onetime London correspondent in Belgium now in Hollywood doing a movie version. He heard it from Paul Jourdain, whose father Victor was pre-War publisher of Le Patriote and Wartime publisher of La Libre Belgique (Free Belgium). The German occupants in Brussels silenced all other patriotic Belgian papers but in spite of all efforts Free Belgium defied the Germans to the very day of the Armistice, then carried on to become the fourth largest modern Belgian daily...
...Cites "Belgian Babies...
Stating both sides of the question he said that a balance must be found between the undisputed value of absolute freedom of speech and press, and the vicious effect of propaganda from Europe. He cited the "Belgian babies" propaganda as a factor contributing to our entrance into the World War. Subsequent investigation, he said, did not reveal one case of children having their hands cut off by German soldiers...
...years ago, under the auspices of the Belgian Government, a tall, rawboned cinema director, Armand Denis (Goona-Goona), and his wife, Leila Roosevelt, undertook a $150,000 expedition to the Belgian Congo. Purposes: to make a motion picture survey of certain parts of the country for Belgian Congo's National Park Institute; to take sound film material suitable for use in an African movie. Explorer Denis, his wife, cameramen, and Pooka, a cat (which survived sand storms and a fight with a leopard, only to be run over later on a quiet New England country road) pushed their...
There were urgent reasons touching the Belgian Congo sufficient to bring His Majesty to England (see p. 19). Both the King and Prince Charles studied at Eton, have many English friends. Traditional practice in impending royal engagements is for all concerned to issue lying official denials right up to the last moment...