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Up for sale the "Prime Minister of Belgium" Joseph Pholien Hand Signed TLS Dated 1952. This letter is rare as it is on the letterhead of The "Minister of Justice."
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Joseph Clovis Louis Marie Emmanuel Pholien (28 December 1884 – 4
January 1968) was a Belgian Catholic politician and member of the PSC-CVP.
He was born in Liège, and volunteered to serve with the Belgian army during World War I, being commissioned as a first lieutenant. He was Minister of Justice under Paul-Henri Spaak from May 1938 to February 1939 and was
the 37th Prime Minister of Belgium from
16 August 1950 to 15 January 1952. In 1966, he became a Minister of State. His term as prime minister is notable for
seeing the departure of the Belgian United Nations Command (BUNC)
to fight in the Korean War (1950–1953). He was the
last Christian Democrat prime minister from Wallonia.
