Foreign News: Spaak Speaks

Moscow might frown, but persistent Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak knew what he wanted: a Western European Bloc. Pausing briefly in Brussels last week on his way from London to Paris, he made a historic statement. Said he: twice in a generation Belgian neutrality had been violated, Belgium overrun; as a result Belgium had renounced forever her traditional policy of neutrality and independence. He added "The British will supply military equipment to us. A certain number of Belgian soldiers will go to Britain for training in British methods."

But the military merger of Britain...

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