Word: paul-henri
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
When Herr Vicco Karl von Biilow-Schwante, Germany's Ambassador to Belgium, called upon Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, May 10, in Brussels to deliver Germany's notice of "protection," Mr. Spaak cut him short before he could speak. "I have something to say to you before you begin," said Spaak. "The answer is negative." And he presented the German with a Belgian note of his own. The German insisted that he came only to offer Belgium the "protection" of long-suffering Fuhrer Hitler against "invasion" by France and Great...
...West. Before the French and British Embassies in Brussels, students paraded, carrying banners that said: "VIVE LA FRANCE!" "VIVE LA GRANDE BRETAGNE!" At night columns of Belgian troops clumped along mined roads, across barricaded bridges, toward Liege and the German frontier. Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak called in Allied diplomats to deny that Germany had presented an ultimatum demanding Belgian neutrality, to reaffirm that Belgium was neutral anyway-until Belgium or The Netherlands was invaded. Minister of Defense Lieutenant General Henri Denis told correspondents: "If any invader sought ... to cross our territory, he would find there only slim advantages...