WHY LEOPOLD SURRENDERED
Soon after surrendering Belgium, King Leopold, in an interview sought by Cardinal van Roey, Primate of Belgium, defended! the motives of bis action. What he said appears in a pastoral letter, which was recently read in the churches of Belgium, and, has been received in London. The King told the Primate, (1) that the Belgian Army was encircled without hope of effective resistance,, and that prolongation of resistance would have resulted in the extermination of the Belgian troops and of hundreds of thousands of civilians without military benefit; (2) that he had' concluded no treaty with the enemy; (3) that it was not true that the Allied High Command was unacquainted with the untenable situation in which the Belgian Army was placed, or with the necessity for it to cease fighting.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 205, 28 August 1940, Page 2
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134WHY LEOPOLD SURRENDERED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 205, 28 August 1940, Page 2
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