KING LEOPOLD’S ACTIONS
“SURRENDER IN 1940 JUSTIFIED” (Rec. 5 p.m.) SALZBURG, July 19. “lam human and I have made mistakes, but they were mistakes in method, not in principle,” said King Leopold of Belgium in an interview. “I have a'clear conscience, which cannot be said of many of the people 1 trusted.” Justifying the in 1940, King Leopold said that it was impossible to light any longer. “I surrendered with the words, ‘I am your prisoner,’ just like any other soldier,” he said. ‘‘There is no truth in! the stories which were spread in the early days of the war, that my surrender was premeditated and prearranged with the Nazis.”
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24624, 21 July 1945, Page 7
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