Andre de Staercke

Andre de Staercke (* 1913 ; † 2003 ) was a Belgian diplomat .

Life

Andre de Staercke received his doctorate in law . From 1943 to 1945 he was the office manager of Paul-Henri Spaak in the government-in-exile in London .

From 1945 to 1950 he was secretary to Charles of Belgium . On February 12, 1949, Le Soir printed the speech by Winston Churchill from May 1940 in front of the House of Commons , in which this the surrender of Leopold III. hostage. As a result, a former secretary of Leopold III. a letter to Churchill in which he denied the content of the speech. Churchill then sent a letter to De Staercke in which he wrote that the words of May 1940 had been carefully considered and that he had since found no reason to change them. De Staercke became a friend of Baudouin I and sat in June 1983 at the funeral feast of Charles of Belgium on the right of Baudouin I. From 1950 to 1952 he was seconded by the government of Joseph Pholien to the North Atlantic Council . From 1952 to 1976 he was the permanent representative of the Belgian governments to the North Atlantic Council and was appointed doyen in this body in 1954 .

Publications

• André DE STAERCKE, Memoires over het Regentschap en de Koningskwestie , teksten en documents uitgegeven by Jean Stengers en Ginette Kurgan - van Hentenryk, Lannoo, Tielt, 2003
• André DE STAERCKE, Tout ça a passé comme une ombre. Mémoires sur la Régence et la Question Royale , textes et documents édités par Jean Stengers et Ginette Kurgan - van Hentenryk, Editions Racine, Bruxelles, 2003.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean Stengers in Pre-War belgian attitudes to Britain: Anglophilia and Anglophobia in Martin Conway, José Gotovitch, Europe in exile: European exile communities in Britain, 1940-1945
2. ↑ Marina Boudart, Michel Boudart, René Bryssinck, Modern Belgium, Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 1990 - 561 pp, pp. Xxiii

predecessor	Office	successor
	Permanent representative of Belgium to NATO in Brussels 1952–1976	Constant Schuurmans