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...Viet Nam war is unpopular largely because of television. People see the horrors and the misery of this war-burning villages, weeping mothers, maimed children. They see South Vietnamese troops manhandling Viet Cong suspects, and they see the more sordid aspects of Saigon night life." Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak put it more succinctly. "The U.S.," he said, "has completely lost the information war in Viet...
...told that I look like Churchill and speak English like Charles Boyer," Paul-Henri Spaak once said. "Of course, I would rather speak English like Churchill and look like Charles Boyer." With 230 lbs. on his six-foot frame, Spaak could hardly pass for Boyer. And for all his oratorical gifts, he would never be confused with Sir Winston. Yet for 34 years, he was a power in Europe. He was Foreign Minister of Belgium six times, and twice the nation's Premier. Spaak in fact, was bigger than the tiny country in which he was born...
...Belgium had planned a spirited parade and re-enactment of the battle on the original site twelve miles south of Brussels (which was part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands' William I in 1815). De Gaulle delivered his opinion of all that to Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak. Result: Belgium decided to stay away from the ceremonies, mainly on the ground that it was not an independent power in 1815, and the Germans and Dutch tactfully decided to send minor diplomats...
Knee Flexing. His timing was, of course, superb, since nearly everyone was mad at him. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson bluntly told the council that "no nation, however great, can think in terms of going it alone, without allies and without regard for world opinion." Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak was just as pointed, warning that "whatever makes nations retire within themselves, out of a somewhat old-fashioned pride, is out of date and will ultimately prove illusory." Even before the meeting opened, Ludwig Erhard in a speech relayed via Early Bird to the U.S. but meant in part...
...Married. Paul-Henri Spaak, 66, Belgium's outspoken Socialist Foreign Minister and former NATO Secretary-General; and Simonne Rikkers Hottlet Dear, 56, an Antwerp-born divorcee and longtime friend; he for the second time (his first wife, an invalid for many years, died last August), she for the third; at Eze, on the French Riviera...