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...began, encouraging Britain to join. Monnet praised Macmillan's decision as "an act of political courage.''optimistically expressed the hppe that Britain might be in by the end of the year (most observers expect the negotiations will take nearly a year). Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, 62, who presided over the drafting of the Treaty of Rome that put the Common Market in business, was equally delighted. He volunteered to preside over the delicate negotiations...
Paul-Henri Spaak, who resigned as NATO Secretary-General to take over Socialist Party leadership, was of the same mind. Socialist anger was directed at the previous Social Christian Premier, Gaston Eyskens, who pushed through his emergency economic bill-the hated Loi Unique-against the opposition of many of his own followers. With Eyskens gone, the Socialists were ready to compromise, even agreed to accept some of the Loi Unique's tougher provisions, such as an increased sales tax. Stickiest question was whether the Social Christians would agree to the release of the hundreds of Socialistled rioters...
...Cabinet, Belgium's 16th since 1945, Socialist Spaak became Vice Premier. He also took over the post of Foreign Minister, incidentally absorbing the Department of Congolese Affairs, which the march of history had now declared superfluous...
What with the humiliating Congo defeat, the winter's long labor riots and the nation's economic malaise, Belgium was limp, dispirited and hardly in a mood for another round of national elections. Not even the campaign speeches of popular Paul-Henri Spaak. who quit as NATO Secretary-General to take over leadership of the Socialists, could whip up the listless crowds. Spaak's electioneering Socialists blamed Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Catholic-backed Social Christians for the Congo debacle, and attacked Eyskens' sensible but unpopular economic austerity program-price of the lost Congo- because...
...candidate for the premiership is tough, freewheeling 47-year-old Théo Lefèvre. president of the party since 1950. In the end, Lefèvre would probably turn not to the Liberals but to the Socialists for help in forming a government. Socialist Leader Paul-Henri Spaak himself has ambitions for the nation's top job; moreover, the Socialists insisted that they would not cooperate unless the controversial economic austerity law is withdrawn...