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...Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium's Socialist Premier, is usually several jumps ahead of political trouble. Last week he was caught off guard. Paul Struye, Spaak 's Minister of Justice, had just commuted the death sentence of two Belgian collaborators. When Socialists joined Communist deputies in protest, Struye, a member of the Catholic party, handed in his resignation, bringing down the coalition cabinet of Socialists and Catholics...
...headquarters in Paris, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was telling one on himself. Spaak spends three days each week in Brussels. There recently he had to make a radio speech. His chauffeur was away, so he hailed a taxi. "The radio building," he ordered the driver. "Sorry, m'sieur," said the cabby, "I haven't the time to drive you. Premier Spaak speaks on the radio tonight, in a few minutes in fact, and like a loyal Socialist I'm going to listen." Glowing with pleasure at the words, Belgium's Premier nevertheless...
...Andrei Vishinsky got called down by Committee Chairman Paul-Henri Spaak, of Belgium, for "insulting other delegates." Replied the Russian: "Unless I am allowed to continue without interruption I won't say another word." He was not interrupted...
...Obsolete Doctrine. Russia's frantic insistence on national sovereignty was also demonstrated in the Commission on Human Rights, which was considering a worldwide Bill of Rights. Russia's Alexei Pavlov promptly cried that it represented interference with Russian sovereignty. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak summed up the West's position when he cried: "We fear you when you preach this antiquated, obsolete doctrine of national sovereignty...
Ernie Bevin still remained chilly. But Paul-Henri Spaak weightily changed his mind, admitted "It is a good idea...