HSM  
This telegram must be                             Paris
closely paraphrased                               
before being communi-                             Dated May 28, 1940
cated to anyone. (D)                                   
                                             Rec'd 7:17 a.m.
 
Secretary of State,
 
     Washington
 
     Rush
     
     929, May 28, 10 p.m.
 
     PERSONAL AND FOR THE PRESIDENT.
 
     Spaak, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium, asked to see me this evening and I
received him at 7 o'clock.
     He said that he wished to thank me for the statements that I had made this morning to the
Belgian Ambassador with regard to the Royal children.  (See telegram No. 912 of May 28, 11
a.m.).
     He went on to say that since the King had committed an act which dishonored not only
himself but also the entire Belgian nation from which the honor of Belgium could not recover for
a hundred years it was impossible for anyone to expect you to receive the Royal children at the
request of a man whose name would go down in history as the synonym of dishonor.
     It was his present opinion and that of the Belgian Government that you should not be
asked to receive the Royal children. They should be kept in France in the