Word: spaak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...background the OEEC group met last week in Paris. Their assignment was to renew or to change the Intra-European Payments agreement, which runs out this month. Britain's objective was to make the new plan as much like the old as possible. Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak and French Finance Minister Maurice Petsche were expected to carry the ball for the liberal Harriman position...
...Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, Nikoli Bulganin and Lavrenty Beria; Britain's Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Israel's Chaim Weizmann, Jordan's King Abdullah, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, Argentina's Juan Perón, and Pope Pius...
...Fortunately, Belgium's Premier Spaak wore a striped...
...week's end another group of travelers was on its way to the U.S. Representatives of Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg-Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech-were heading west on the Queen Mary to sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman was about to leave on the same mission. They would be here to endorse an affirmative act on which the U.S. people, except for a noisy minority, were no longer divided -an act of determination which was the best answer to the fulminations...
When it came his turn to speak, Belgium's Premier Paul-Henri Spaak told the comrades off. The Red hecklers, he said, were typical of the small pro-Soviet minority in Europe who, blindly obedient to a "foreign power," always tried to drown out the voice of the majority. The crowd roared approval...