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...Ends: Leopold Ackerman, George Duane, Bill Grosvenor, George Haydock, Al Jaretzki, John Morgan, George Putnam, Roger Tatton...
Political reconstruction was also in progress under Max Liebe, prewar Nazi agent and spy, now Counselor of the German Embassy. King Leopold was immured in Laeken Palace, still a national hero because he foresaw the approaching debacle and acted in time to save countless Belgian lives. Discredited because it fled at the moment of crisis, the refugee Government of Hubert Pierlot (still in Vichy) prepared its resignation last week, hoped the Nazis would permit its members to return as ordinary refugees. In Brussels pro-German Henri de Man, onetime Minister of Finance and President of the Belgian Labor Party...
...July, along with other U. S. envoys to the invaded Low Countries, Ambassador Cudahy was invited by the Nazis to leave Belgium. He had meanwhile visited King Leopold, seen that President Roosevelt and the U. S. press got a sympathetic account of the Belgian monarch's surrender to the Nazis. Last week Mr. Cudahy turned up in London, the guest of Ambassador Joe Kennedy...
...Directly disputed Prime Minister Winston Churchill's statement that King Leopold surrendered with the least possible notice to the Allies. ". . . The Allies were informed and fully informed of his decision no fewer than three days before...
Three Belgian refugee children were returned from Portugal to their father in Brussels: Princess Josephine Charlotte, 12, Crown Prince Baudouin, 9, Prince Albert, 6, offspring of King Leopold...