“Indignation” over the nomination of Belgian Senator Victor Leemans as president of the European Parliament, and a demand that he step down and resign from the Parliament on charges of Nazism, was made here at a meeting held by L’Union de Resistance Pour L’Europe Uni, an association to which all Worl War II resistance movements belong.
The meeting condemned Leemans as one who was active in Nazism and “faithful” to that ideology for 15 years before World War II. Jean Fosty, a former Free French officer and now an intelligence officer for the Belgian Government, denounced Leemans as “a champion of political and economic collaboration” with the Nazis.
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