Word: spaak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word "quarantine" in speaking against "world lawlessness" (TIME, Oct. 18), brought together around green tables in the Palais des Academies in Brussels last week representatives of the U. S., Britain, France, Russia, China, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Belgium, with moon-faced Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak holding the gavel...
Written by Charles Spaak, the story is set in a small seventeenth century, Flemish village, and relates the dramatic actions of the Burgomaster and his wife to save the citizens...
Active, intelligent Paul Henri Spaak Belgium's Foreign Minister, concluded last week what has already been called "the political bargain of the century" After the Treaty of Versailles, Belgium, which for centuries had been ravaged by the wars of others, pinned her faith in collective security. Since then Belgians have seen the League fumble and haggle while Dictator Mussolini walked into Ethiopia; they have watched Dictator Hitler's Storm Troops calmly goosestep into the demilitarized Rhineland zone (TIME, March 16, 1936), and France form a pact with godless Stalin (TIME, May 13, 1935) whom Belgians, most of them...
...newspapers, went into a huddle with Premier Blum, Defense Minister Daladier and General Gamelin, the French chief-of-staff. In an effort to gain time, M. Delbos presently dispatched to Brussels five questions as to the Belgian Cabinet's intentions, and obtained lukewarm assurances from Belgian Foreign Minister Spaak that existing Franco-Belgian staff consultations will not be disturbed. It appeared, however, that the French General Staff must thoroughly overhaul its plans and that possibly France may have to extend her $300,000,000 Maginot Line defenses (which now stretch from Switzerland to Luxemburg) clear across to the Straits...