KING LEOPOLD’S VISIT
CONFERENCE WITH QUEEN WILHELMINA. FOREIGN MINISTERS PRESENT. (ly Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. November 7. Router's Paris correspondonl says that King' Leopold of Belgium and his Foreign Minister, I\L Spaak. arrived al The Hague lasi night and conferred with Queen Wilhelmina until 1.30 a.m. Political circles consider that the subject of the discussion was either a possible peace offer or closer co-opera-tion between Belgium and Holland.
King Leopold’s visit was unexpected, a radio message reports. The Netherlands Foreign Minister, M Patijn. was also present. No official announcement was made concerning lhe subject matter of the talks.
INTEREST' AT THE HAGUE KING LEOPOLD EXHIBITS EMOTION. SEEN BY CROWD WATCHING PALACE. (Received This Day. 11.0 a.m.) HAGUE, November 7. The Foreign Minister. M Spaak, conversed with the Luxembourg Foreign Minister by telephone. Reports that Germany has demanded assurances of Belgian neutrality are denied.
Crowds gathered outside the Palace. King Leopold was seen striding up and down a room gesticulating emotionally while conversing with the Dutch Foreign Minister.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1939, Page 5
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