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...Spaak spent his life fighting nationalism, which to him was an evil that had divided Europe for centuries. When he resigned from the Belgian Parliament last week, Europe lost its greatest practicing internationalist...
...told that I look like Churchill and speak English like Charles Boyer," Paul-Henri Spaak once said. "Of course, I would rather speak English like Churchill and look like Charles Boyer." With 230 lbs. on his six-foot frame, Spaak could hardly pass for Boyer. And for all his oratorical gifts, he would never be confused with Sir Winston. Yet for 34 years, he was a power in Europe. He was Foreign Minister of Belgium six times, and twice the nation's Premier. Spaak in fact, was bigger than the tiny country in which he was born...
...Flag & Tennis. Born near Brussels in 1899, Spaak was the son of a writer and director of the Brussels opera; his mother was the first woman to become a Belgian senator. He was always something of a political contradiction. Entering Parliament in 1932 as a radical Socialist, he thought nothing of spending a day waving a red flag at a Socialist demonstration, and then retiring to the tennis court or the plush comfort of Brussels' exclusive Leopold Club...
Weekend at Dunkirk. This random, well-photographed essay on the futility of war will prove a letdown to audiences lured by the marquee pull of Jean-Paul Belmondo. As a French soldier sweating through the British evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, Belmondo braves German bullets, saves Catherine Spaak from rape, and growls defiance in a flat Yankee accent. Seems he has been dubbed as well as drubbed, and any nuances that his gravelly, one-of-a-kind voice might have lent to the performance are effectively erased. With only one ace in the whole, the distributors of Dunkirk might have...
...British had to settle for a Brussels embassy ball, which Spaak (and of course the French ambassador) managed to miss, a re-enactment of the cricket game staged on the eve of the battle, and a memorial service on the battle site for the slain of all nations, including the French. This was conducted last week in a drenching rain in the presence of 1,100 stiff-lipped British soldiers standing wetly to attention. Announced Britain's ambassador in Belgium, Sir Roderick Barclay: "We have had many ceremonies this week. You might call this one eccentric, in line with...