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Even Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, perhaps the most implacable foe of De Gaulle's plans for Europe, agreed last week that there was no general support for retaliatory measures against France. West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who was in tears at Brussels when France blackballed Britain, went home breathing defiance of De Gaulle and threats to topple Konrad Adenauer. He got nowhere (see West Germany). And after all the oratory at Strasbourg, a "solemn protest" motion condemning De Gaulle's "domination" of Europe was defeated by a tie vote of 38-38-hardly...
Belgium's Senate passed a unanimous resolution condemning French intransigence and demanding that talks with Britain be resumed. "A diktat" roared Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak of De Gaulle's presumption to act as all Europe's spokesman. "Our problem is the personality of General de Gaulle. We are not only against his methods but also against his reasons, which are false." If Britain is left out, declared Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, "the idea of a united Europe will be in crisis." Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani called it a menace to NATO itself...
...Cause for Alarm. What De Gaulle fears, of course, is any threat to French hegemony in the Common Market-and that is exactly what frightens other European nations. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak said that only because Britain "stood alone in 1940 is it possible for us to speak today of a Europe that can integrate itself." West Germany's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder reasserted his conviction that Britain should be admitted to the Common Market. But Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, fearful of offending his old friend De Gaulle on the eve of a visit...
...although de Gaulle is silent, Belgium, in the person of Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, has run out of patience with Mr. Tshombe. In September, 1961, M. Spaak (then not in office) had hoped for the classic alternative of subduing the breezy Katangan chief by private means; now he grasps faintly at U Thant's tactful straws. The Belgian government's resolution must have been considerably fortified by Mr. Tshombe's talk of "scorched earth" and his attempts to blow up several key Union Miniere installations. Even what M. Spaak describes as his "preoccupation," meaning alarm, with the more confusing...
Last week the Six gave an eloquent reply through Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. When he finished, even the ambassadors from Guinea. Ghana and other Marx-minded nations added their applause to the wave of hand clapping. Said Spaak...