Paul-Henri Spaak person
also: A-C-K-E-R, M. Van Aker, Spak, Spake, Speight, Paul van Zeelen, Van Zeelen
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Paul-Henri Spaak headed
Catholic Committee International Defense, Civilization, and Culture book_quoted
“or sink into a communist materialism. The CIDCC was intended, in the face of a well-organized communist and anti-Christian international, to become the nucleus of the Christian international community. Most important to this effort was a ma…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14 @ 39:29
Paul-Henri Spaak appointed
NATO host_asserted
“Spake was rewarded for his loyalty in 1957 because he got to be the NATO Secretary General, which, as everybody knows, is the highest civilian position that you can be appointed to in the military alliance. He was there until 1961. So 11 ye…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 29:42
Mentions (12)
▶ 25:53
Stuart Menzies, the chief of MI6, in a letter dated January 27, 1949, to the Belgium Prime Minister, Spak, S-P-A-A-K, had urged that the existing secret collaboration between the UK and Belgium that was started during World War II needed to…
▶ 26:50
the Belgian prime minister, and M. Van Aker, A-C-K-E-R, who was the Belgian prime minister after Perlot, and myself during the periods that they held office as prime minister, unquote. So basically, that is another cable and evidence that t…
▶ 27:21
Another one says, quote, demands for training and material will arise in the near future. I have already undertaken to provide certain training facilities for officers and others nominated by the head of your special services. And I am in a…
▶ 27:49
and suggested that certain officers should proceed to the UK to study in conjunction with technicalities and future service. Definitely don't want just the CIA to be in charge. MI6 definitely needs to stake out their territory as well. And …
▶ 28:19
and said he was glad to get help from the British. But since the American CIA had also approached him on the subject, he thought it important that the British and Americans cooperate together so that Belgium was not going to get stuck in th…
▶ 28:44
If two of them, the American and British, refuse that collaboration, the situation for the Belgium service would be extremely delicate and difficult. I therefore think it is unavoidable that on the highest levels of negotiation, they take p…
▶ 29:42
Spake was rewarded for his loyalty in 1957 because he got to be the NATO Secretary General, which, as everybody knows, is the highest civilian position that you can be appointed to in the military alliance. He was there until 1961. So 11 ye…
▶ 39:29
or sink into a communist materialism. The CIDCC was intended, in the face of a well-organized communist and anti-Christian international, to become the nucleus of the Christian international community. Most important to this effort was a ma…
▶ 40:30
Paul de Lanoit, by far the most significant financier of this movement, conservatism in general, and anti-communists specifically in Belgium during the 40s, 50s, and 60s. As a renowned European politician, Van Zeelen also had excellent inte…
▶ 41:01
as president of the committee. For his fight against atheist communism, Lesoyd won several supporters among representatives of the Franco regime in Spain. Again, this is fascist, not Christian in any way at all, fascist. The Spanish ambassa…
▶ 46:30
allowed them to outsource the money of that and use private funds to do it. So they were definitely lining up. And here's where they overlap. You guys remember the guy Antoine Panay that we talked about from Le Circle? Listen to this. After…
▶ 46:55
Van Zeelen bestowed only limited attention to this organization. At the same time, faced with a limited number of customers and a bottleneck in finances, Le Sourd's publishing activities came to a standstill. International meetings hardly e…