THE KING OF THE BELGIANS
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir—The terrible sufferings, horrors, and numerous bereavements, the result of this war, are all very hard to bear, but to me the deepest wound -was inflicted by the cruel condemnation of King Leopold, whom I could only visualise as the most unhappy victim of the whole war. The mental torment of such a nature as I believe his to be must have been more than mortal man could bear, and his has been an already too tragic life! Thosp who condemned so utterly and cruelly and in many cases abusively, and among them men whose judgment meant 'so much to us, must bear a scar of shame for ever more, for do they know or bear a tithe of the suffering of this most unhappy man? There must be many (though I was not surrounded by them) who believed in him and will be very grateful to R. Thurlow Thompson for his letter in ‘The Press” of Saturday. If only a few could have appeared in those sad and terrible days!— Yours, etc., LION RAMPANT. February 24, 1941.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23263, 25 February 1941, Page 12
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