Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Marie Spaak, 23, slim daughter of Belgium's rotund Premier Paul-Henri Spaak; and Arthur Palliser, 26, British Foreign Office Secretary; in Saint Gilles, Belgium...
...Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain had recoiled from the materialist philosophies of their professors. They had even brooded about a suicide pact, until Philosopher Henri Bergson's lectures opened their eyes to the possibility of a truth beyond reason. Then they read two of Bloy's books. Wrote Maritain: "All the values we gave to things were put in different places, as if by the turning of an invisible switch. We knew . . . from then on that 'there is but one sadness, and that is, not to be of the saints' . . ." Maritain and his wife...
Belgium's "crisis" ended in total victory for Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. When a faction of his own Socialist Party had refused to go along with his handling of the Socialist-Catholic dispute over school subsidies, he had resigned (TIME, May 17). Last week, at the "earnest request" of Regent Charles and of Parliament, he withdrew his resignation. Spaak was back on his own terms-the compromise finally adopted in the school dispute was (except for minor details) the one on which he had insisted all along. "He is really strong -too strong for the others," said a Brussels...
Over their coffee and pistolets (rolls), Belgians found no hint in their morning papers that anything special was in the air. But by evening of the next day, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak had resigned. Belgians were so bewildered that they called their first political crisis in over a year la drole de crise, as they had once spoken of la drole de guerre (the phony...
...school, Paul-Henri was erratically brilliant. Once, when he flunked an exam, he forestalled punishment by declaring: "I have already administered to myself the full flow of reproach which a boy in my situation usually gets from Papa and Maman" Spaak's culture is essentially French, and his early heroes were French. He was particularly keen on Napoleon until, in his own words, he "became aware that it was compromising for a politician to admire Napoleon too much...