Brussels, Oct. 28.
"Belgium must not become Europe's battlefield again," declared the Foreign Minister, M, Paul-Henri Spaak, in broadcasting to the nation last night.He reiterated the Governments desire to remain outside the conflict, and said some people did not appreciate the importance of their task.
"Self-imposed neutrality," M. Spaak asserted, "involves certain duties, A small irresponsible minority appear io wish Belgium to side with the belligerents, while others underestimate the difficulties of the situation and want to express their personal sentiments."
Individual liberty, he added, must yield today to national discipline. He concluded by appealing to the population to guard against imprudent acts that might involve Belgium in the Arrested in Mass Helsingski, Oct. 28.
Reports from Tallinn of wholesale arrests of Estonian Communists today were confirmed by reliable quarters here. The Soviet Government agreed that any attempt by Estonian Communists to create a neo-political crisis should be suppressed. Many Estonian Communists who appealed to the Soviet Command to release imprisoned friends met with the reply that "in Russia political agitators of that mind are hanged."—United Press.
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