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...nearly 1,500 refugees from Bordeaux landed safely in England, among them the Baron & Baroness Robert de Rothschild and French Dramatist Henry Bernstein, fleeing Nazi anti-Semitic terrors. Fear of Gestapo black lists brought aboard the same vessel two onetime Government officials: onetime Belgian Transport Minister Marcel-Henri Jaspar and onetime French Air Minister...
...Belgian Cabinets these days are as flimsy as playing-card castles. Month ago King Leopold III accepted Premier Paul Henri Spaak's resignation in the Flemish v. Walloon crisis caused by patriotic War veterans (TIME, Feb. 20). He asked Walloon Catholic Henri Jaspar, who had been Premier from 1926 to 1930, to form a new Cabinet. After two days of fruitless interviews, Jaspar gave up; 36 hours later he died of a stomach ulcer about which he had told no one. Former Cabinet Minister Hubert Pierlot, also a Walloon-Catholic, tried next. He built up a Cabinet of Catholics...
Last week Premier Spaak did. King Leopold turned the job of forming a new Cabinet and placating the angry veterans over to onetime Premier Henri Jaspar...
Snapped onetime Premier Henri Jaspar: "What has Roosevelt accomplished? What? The worst thing about van Zeeland is that he is acting in good faith and is thoroughly imbued with American ideas...
...bald Statesman Theunis, the official interpreter at the Cannes Conference, M. Georges J. Mathieu, wrote: "I noticed a very remarkable difference between M. Theunis' anger and M. Jaspar's. When M. Theunis was getting angry he used to show a very conspicuous danger signal: the skin on top of his head became bright red. While M. Jaspar, next to him, showed it in his face...