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Belgium's Socialist Foreign Minister, chubby Paul-Henri Spaak, journeyed to Paris last week to see what economic and political commerce was still possible between France and Belgium. He went back to Brussels with a trade agreement and a diplomatic understanding...
...meet the crisis Premier Pierlot rushed back from his country house to Brussels. From Paris, where he had gone for economic talks, rushed Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak. The cabinet met in emergency session. Cried Resistance Chief Demany: "There can be no compromise. . . . Since the Germans were driven out, two traitors have been shot out of 60,000 collaborators arrested. Now in one day we have four patriots killed by the police. That is the score-two traitors and four patriots! . . . We must not have a revolution. But we must have a succession of evolutions until we achieve...
Moscow might frown, but persistent Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak knew what he wanted: a Western European Bloc. Pausing briefly in Brussels last week on his way from London to Paris, he made a historic statement. Said he: twice in a generation Belgian neutrality had been violated, Belgium overrun; as a result Belgium had renounced forever her traditional policy of neutrality and independence. He added "The British will supply military equipment to us. A certain number of Belgian soldiers will go to Britain for training in British methods...
...pattern of power politics crystallized in eastern Europe, another pattern was beginning to take shape in the west. Last week Belgium's Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, arrived in London to talk western power bloc with Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden...
...Dictator Franco decided to play put-&-take with his brother-in-law. The then Spanish Foreign Minister, Colonel Juan Beigbeder, was said to have rushed to the Generalissimo in a passion because transit visas through Spain which he had given to Refugee Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot and Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak had not been honored by the immigration police of Brother-in-Law Serrano Suñer's Ministry of Government. "It is an affair of honor!" the Colonel reportedly told the Generalissimo, "I gave my word of honor that they should pass!" Instead, MM. Pierlot and Spaak...