ATTACK ON LEOPOLD
SPAAK CONDEMNS COURSE Rec. noon. BRUSSELS, July 25. Mr. Spaak, the Foreign Minister, opened the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the King's actions when .this was resumed with a bitter attack on King Leopold. "We were shocked to hear from the King that we had no obligation at all to our allies, and that as far as Belgium was concerned in 1940 the war was finished," said Mr. Spaak. "I am glad to say the Belgian Government stuck to its principles." He was sorry that Leopold never admitted he had made a mistake when he had visited Berchtesgaden to chat to Hitler \ and sent congratulatory telegrams to Hitler and the King of Italy. .Those things could not be explained away. Mr. Spaak produced two letters, said to have been written by the King's secretary, as evidence that the King abandoned hope of an Allied victory. "We must not forget," he said, "if Belgium lives on it is because she disobeyed her King." He ended his indictment of the King by saying, "I cannot cry 'Long live the King,' but I' am ready to say, 'Sire, your son is our King.'"
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 8
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195ATTACK ON LEOPOLD Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 8
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