Speech #790009751

I am aware of the fact that Belgium has had a fine national history in the 115 years of its independence and that the Constitution of Belgium guarantees to its citizens all the rights which we usually associate with our own Bill of Rights. It is therefore most disappointing to the friends of Belgium that at a time when. after years of oppression. a new regime is instituted. this regime does not follow constitutional patterns but is trying to copy Nazi models. I hope that the German occupation of Belgium did not extinguish its innate sense of justice and that the Belgian Government will see its way clear to treat refugees from the Nazis as fellow sufferers and not as Germans.