STORMY SCENE
BELGIAN CHAMBER
A DEFENCE OF THE KING
(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) Rec. 11.30 a.m. BRUSSELS, July 24. Catholic speakers in.the Chamber of Deputies, defending King Leopolds actions after the German invasion of Belgium, declared that the King, in his famous interviewwith Hitler at Berchtesgaden in 1941, discussed only two things—improvement of the Belgian food supply and the return of prisoners of war.
M. de Fleeschauwer, Minister for Colonies in the London exile Government, who acted as spokesman for the Catholics, said that King Leopold did not solicit the interview, but that an invitation came from Hitler immediately after the capitulation. The King only accepted when the food position became worse and prisoners continued to be held in Germany.-
Answering another of M. Van Acker's charges, M. de Fleeschauwer declared that the King was willing to join the Maquis in 1944, but that the Germans, presumably suspecting something, increased the guard around the palace and frustrated any attempt to do so. , , In a stormy scene, the speaker strongly attacked the Prime Minister and accused him, among other things, of preventing the King's return to Belgium. He said that the Red Cross made
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 21, 25 July 1945, Page 7
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193STORMY SCENE Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 21, 25 July 1945, Page 7
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