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...nationwide strikes that they instigated, Belgium's faction-torn Socialists last week sent for the one man with enough eminence to restore their battered prestige and give them a fighting chance in this spring's elections. He was NATO's Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak...
...much of the outside world, Spaak's name has long seemed to be synonymous with Belgium itself. During the war and in the reconstruction era that followed, Spaak was sometimes Belgium's Premier, but nearly always its Foreign Minister. As such, he was a major architect of postwar Europe, achieving by sheer eloquence and ability a stature that his country's size would not have otherwise commanded in the world's councils. He was elected the first president of the U.N. General Assembly in 1946, has since often given the impression that Belgium itself...
...French but wellborn girls of all nationalities. The current Paris roster, she points out, now includes David Niven's twin nieces. Playwright Jean Anouilh's daughter Catherine, Tony Trabert's wife Shawn, along with a princess, a countess, and nieces of Dean Acheson and Paul-Henri Spaak...
...earliest meetings of the North Atlantic pact, Paul Henri Spaak provoked a good deal of laughter by rolling an orange along the conference table to soothe an angry and hungry Sir Stafford Cripps. The idea that prompted him has become a tradition in NATO negotiations: on the ability of its members to settle their differences quickly and without rancor depends the happiness and security of the West...
...fuel the resurgence of anti-German feeling (TIME, April 20, 1959 et seq.) amongst ordinary Britons-though not in the British government. So bitter was the deepening conflict between the Six and the Seven that some good Europeans like NATO Secretary-General (and Common Market Treaty Negotiator) Paul-Henri Spaak began to fear that it would induce a political split which could turn NATO into an empty shell...