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...week's end another group of travelers was on its way to the U.S. Representatives of Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg-Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech-were heading west on the Queen Mary to sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman was about to leave on the same mission. They would be here to endorse an affirmative act on which the U.S. people, except for a noisy minority, were no longer divided -an act of determination which was the best answer to the fulminations...
Spaak, as the representative of a fully liberated country, was the first to come to London. Next, probably, would be Luxembourg's astute Foreign Minister, Joseph Bech. Soon Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden would pay a ceremonial call on General Charles de Gaulle in Paris. Later, when their countries had been freed, the plenipotentiaries of the other Atlantic states would come to London...
...simplicity and devotion. He was equally devoted to his own country and to the one to which he was accredited, and by keeping the interest of the two countries always in harmony he avoided any conflict of loyalties. The Grand Duchess' No.1 adviser was Foreign Minister Joseph Bech; Adviser Bech's No.1 adviser was George Waller...
Cheerfully eleven-year-old Sonia Bech told of the hazardous hours on a tiny raft with her mother and nine-year-old brother Derek. Twice she had been washed off by the sea but both times she had been rescued. "When we laid down our heads," she said, "we were in the water. When we tried to sit up we were blown down again by the wind. . . . When we found the warship we all stood up and cheered and shouted for the good old British Navy. The Navy men helped us up a rope ladder -first an arm and then...
...square of the capital and the people stroll round & round. The highest officer in the Army is a captain. Prince Felix's proudest possession is The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin Roosevelt, personally presented by President Roosevelt last autumn. Luxembourg's canny, genial Foreign Minister Joseph Bech (who resigned as Premier because he thought he had held the job too long), likes to swap stories with newspapermen. The newspapermen like to hang out in chess-playing Herr Klopp's hotel at Remich and watch the Germans across the river...