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...pledging respect for the territorial integrity of China and the Open Door meet again soon. As any such meeting is infuriating to Japanese minds, President Roosevelt has not wished to act as host in Washington, "and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has felt the same about London. Last week King Leopold III of the Belgians, Statesman Sovereign of the smallest Nine-Power Treaty signatory, agreed readily "at the request of the British Government and with the approval of the Government of the United States," to be host in Brussels on Oct. 30 and to have the Belgian Government send...
...months ago, young, vigorous Leopold III, Statesman-King of the Belgians, took up the mantle of his Foreign Minister, crossed over to London and closeted himself with Whitehall officials (TIME, April 5). Three days later the curly-haired Leopold took the boat train for Brussels, carrying with him assurances that Great Britain, and France as well, would release Belgium from the Locarno Treaty obligations of 1925 and the Anglo-Franco-Belgian agreement of March 19, 1936 by which Belgium promised to help defend Britain and France against attack. Chief feather in the Diplomat-King's cap was agreement...
...Belgium had been as an ally of France, but now that Germany has burst her bonds such an alliance would only antagonize the Reich. After His Majesty's trip to London it remained to secure for Belgium whatever treaty pledges Germany might be willing to make, but Leopold III judged it indiscreet for the King of the Belgians to do anything so sensational as visit Adolf Hitler. Last week routine diplomatic procedure to get the best deal Belgium could obtain as quietly as possible climaxed when, a handsome scrap of paper was handed by the German Foreign Minister, portly...
...Girl (Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Leopold Stokowski...
...Girl (Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Leopold Stokowski...