Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels the escape of King Leopold III from the Nazis caused neither joy nor sorrow, but considerable embarrassment. The Socialist Party demanded that the King stay out of Belgium. The Catholic Party declared that if Leopold was kept out it would leave the Cabinet, in which it holds the balance of power...
...Salzburg rushed a Cabinet deputation, joined by Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, breathless from his dash home from the San Francisco Conference. Leopold's brother, the Regent Prince Charles, also went along. Spaak urged Fabian tactics: the Socialists wanted Leopold to abdicate, the Liberals wanted him to rule-might it not be better for the King to prolong his exile just a little longer until Belgians could make up their minds...
...John Amery (contrary son of Britain's Secretary for India Leopold Amery), another renegade Axis propagandist. He was threatened with execution by Italian partisans, saved his life by pleading British citizenship...
...Yalta agreement was not mentioned; this, ostensibly, was an internal affair between the Russians and the Poles. Among the Poles so honored were Deputy Prime Minister Jan Jankowski, and leaders of the principal parties (Socialist, Peasant, Nationalist, Christian Democrat) opposing Moscow's Warsaw regime. Another was General Leopold Okulicki, who had succeeded Tadeusz Bor, leader of the ill-fated Warsaw August uprising, as commander in chief of the London Government's underground army. Some of the 16 hardly deserved the title of "democratic leaders," but they had what amounted to a Russian pledge of safe conduct...
...history. Into The Netherlands, just liberated by the surrender of all the occupying German forces, dropped Queen Wilhelmina (after five years' exile in Britain) and Princess Juliana (after five years' exile in Canada and the U.S.). Into Switzerland, en route to Belgium, rode King Leopold III, after five years of imprisonment in Germany...