Word: spaak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, Baudouin has made 42 major public appearances. Belgium's ministers and statesmen have found him disciplined, earnest and intelligent. Even Socialist Paul-Henri Spaak, his father's implacable political enemy, likes Baudouin, is impressed by his intelligence. More romantic Belgians have seen in the boy's habit of walking with hands folded behind him, in his leanness and in his shyness a clear resemblance to his grandfather Albert...
...Social Christian Party, unexpectedly became Belgium's Premier last October, after the royal abdication crisis had forced Premier Jean Duvieusart to resign. Pholien grew very fond of his new office. He was irritated, however, by the globetrotting reminiscences of Foreign Minister Paul Van Zeeland, ex-Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, and other colleagues...
Belgium's former Premier Paul Henri Spaak, a veteran of a few cabinet crises, admitted to the American Club in Brussels that he was baffled by U.S. politics. Said Spaak: "American political life is absolutely incomprehensible, not only for the majority of foreigners, but also for the Americans ... In America there are two large parties, the Republicans and the Democrats. I asked a lot of people the difference between a Republican and a Democrat. Nobody could tell me, so I'm beginning to think there...
...Brussels, Ike bypassed the Belgian Air Force honor guard waiting at the Brussels airport, hurried to his car and hurried into the city. He quickly conferred with civil and defense chiefs, talked to Party Leaders Paul-Henri Spaak (Socialist) and Roger Motz (Liberal), learned that Belgium proposed to: 1) increase her strength in Germany from one to three divisions by the year's end, 2) double the draft period from 12 to 24 months...
Five years ago, Norway's Trygve Lie was the Soviet Union's candidate for first president of the U.N. Assembly. He was beaten, 28 to 23, by Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. Then Lie, with the warm approval of the U.S.S.R., was elected U.N.'s secretary general. Lie continued to enjoy Soviet favor until he reacted with indignation to Communist aggression in Korea...