KING LEOPOLD DEFENDED
INTERVIEW WITH HITLER (Rec. 1 p.m.) BRUSSELS, July 24. Catholic speakers in the Chamber of Deputies, defending King Leopold’s actions after the German invasion of Belgium, declared the King in the famous interview with Hitler at Berchtesgaden, 1941, discussed only two things—improvement of Belgian food supply and return of prisoners of W M. de Fleeschauwer, Minister of Colonies in the London Exile Government, acting as spokesman for the Catholics, said that Leopold did not solicit the interview. The invitation came from Hitler immediately after the capitulation in 1940. The King accepted only when the food situation worsened and prisoners continued to be held in Germany. De Fleeschauwer, answering another of Premier Vanacker’s charges declared that the King was willing to join the Maquis in 1944, but the Germans presumably suspected something and increased the guard around the palace and frustrated his attempt to do so. . ~..
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1945, Page 5
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