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...French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay. Round the other side, headed in the opposite direction, sped a Citroën bearing French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. The Frenchman's chauffeur slammed on his brakes as another Citroën, with Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak inside, cut across his bow. A stately Rolls-Royce carrying Britain's Ernest Bevin slid in behind Schuman's car. Stalled motorists along the avenue furiously honked their horns. For a breathless moment it looked to fascinated Paris pedestrians as if the four diplomatic cars would become...
...Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, now president of the Council of Europe's Assembly, who had hitherto been mild on the subject of Leopold, called the Leopold-Eyskens agreement "sheer political folly." If the King got less than 55% of the votes, said Spaak, the institution of the monarchy itself could be endangered. "The King would render the country an immense service," added Spaak, "if he agreed to abdicate. If this sacrifice is above his strength, the King could say he would return only with wide popular support . . . at least two-thirds of the whole country...
Rambunctious Rebellion. The Assembly last week showed that it had determination. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak had relinquished public office at home just in time to be elected first president of the Assembly. His first act was to call for a short, practicable agenda. The Assembly rambunctiously rebelled against the Committee of Ministers, which has power to tell the Assembly what it can and cannot talk about. Cried Winston Churchill: "Why all this interference with the freedom of discussion...
Sounding the Parties. At home in Belgium, the Catholics' sharp Paul van Zeeland, as Premier-designate after the recent election, sounded out the other parties for a coalition whose foremost task would be to hold a plebiscite on the royal question. The Socialists, led by able Paul-Henri Spaak, rejected Van Zeeland's proposals, ordered their powerful trade unions to prepare for a general strike. Led by Roger Motz, the Liberals also rejected the Catholic proposal. The Communists and their bosses such as Edgard Lalmand were not consulted. They have been steadily fading as a factor in Belgian...
...govern Europe's finances sat in the same gilt & cream chamber where the De Rothschilds once practiced their financial wizardry.* Delegates from 19 OEEC areas had come to La Muette to work out a new Intra-European Payments plan. After hours of futile argument, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak suggested that the meeting adjourn. Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps cut him short with a crisp insistence. "Gentlemen, I have to go back to England tomorrow," he said, "but my plane does not leave until 6 in the morning. I am at your disposal until then...