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...Strasbourg last week, Paul-Henri Spaak, acknowledged leader of the federation forces, resigned his job as President of the Council of Europe's Consultative Assembly (see below) with a ringing indictment of all the proud and cautious pettifoggers who could agree only on "what could not be done." He grieved, but he did not give up. Oddly enough, his disillusioned outcry came in a week when France for the first time in its history pledged itself to surrender some of its sovereignty: the French Parliament ratified the Schuman Plan to pool Europe's coal and steel...
...about and to participate in four days' joint debate with 20 members of the Assembly. Their ambitious agenda: "Union of Europe, its problems, progress, prospects and place in the Western world." Rhode Island's crusty old Senator Theodore F. Green took turns with Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak as chairman...
Since then, Baudouin has made 42 major public appearances. Belgium's ministers and statesmen have found him disciplined, earnest and intelligent. Even Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak, his father's implacable political enemy, likes Baudouin, is impressed by his intelligence. More romantic Belgians have seen in the boy's habit of walking with hands folded behind him, in his leanness and in his shyness a clear resemblance to his grandfather Albert...
...Belgium's postwar Social Christian Party, unexpectedly became Belgium's Premier last October, after the royal abdication crisis had forced Premier Jean Duvieusart to resign. Pholien grew very fond of his new office. He was irritated, however, by the globetrotting reminiscences of Foreign Minister Paul Van Zeeland, ex-Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, and other colleagues...
...Brussels, Ike bypassed the Belgian Air Force honor guard waiting at the Brussels airport, hurried to his car and hurried into the city. He quickly conferred with civil and defense chiefs, talked to Party Leaders Paul-Henri Spaak (Socialist) and Roger Motz (Liberal), learned that Belgium proposed to: 1) increase her strength in Germany from one to three divisions by the year's end, 2) double the draft period from 12 to 24 months...