"When Belgium was invaded, they recalled, he refused to convene Parliament or to brand the German m-vaders in a radio broadcast as requested by his ministers. Even in his messages of "encouragement" to the defenders of Liege and Namur he was brief to the point of taciturn. ity, the Belgian leaders further point. ed out.
All this, taken together with his point blank refusal to permit formal consultations with French authorities io prepare for Belgian evacuation of threatened areas, may now be seen to spel] but one thing: premeditated treachery, they asserted.
When the king first began talk of capitulation, his ministers accused bim of not heeding General Maxime Weygand's military advice. But he replied merely that his troops were "too tired" to carry out the operations which, it was believed, would have saved the situation.
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