Speech #790009751

Mr. Chairman. the recent crisis in the ranks of the Belgian Government calls attention to the situation which has arisen in liberated Belgium and which requires immediate steps. Unlike Russia. which saw fit to make the proper distinction between the Nazis and their victims. the Belgian Government apparently lumps together all people born in Germany and seeks to impose on GermanJewish refugees the status of alien enemies. Whenever the Russian Government concluded an armistice agreement with the defeated Axis satellites. it wrote into the terms the provision that Jews and other refugees from the Nazi terror who may be found within the territories liberated by the Allied armies. shall be immediately restored to their freedom and be allowed to live in peace. Belgium seemingly reverses the process and wishes to keep the refugees from the Nazis in concentration camps while the erstwhile collaborationists with the Nazi regime are enjoying all the freedom and living on the fat of the land. Belgium is the one country in Europe which not only did not do anything for the war effort. but harbored the greatest number of proNazis when it was profitable to be a pro.-Nazi. It did not come tc the assistance of France when France was bleeding and clamoring for help.