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Lisbon was crawling with spies, all of whom knew one another's identity. They lunched at the same restaurants, peering at one another over their menus.
Marianne Elisabeth (née Rijnveld) Rothschild
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1944 Robert remained in Lisbon until 1944, when he was sent, at his request to China. He became first secretary at the Belgian embassy in Chungking, the headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek's government.
1945? During the Japanese occupation, there was a lull in the Chinese civil war. The Communists of Mao Zedong even had an envoy in Chungking in the person of Zhou Enlai, whom he grew to like.
1946 After the Japanese surrender, he flew to Shanghai, where, in 1946, he was appointed consul general.
1950 In early 1950, he left Shanghai for Washington, D.C. as second counsellor at the Belgian embassy.
1952 It was the time of the Korean War and the build-up of NATO and after two years in Washington, Robert went to Paris as a Belgian representative on the council of NATO.
1954 In 1954, Rothschild was appointed chef de cabinet of Paul-Henri Spaak at the Belgian foreign ministry.
1954?-1957? For the next two years, he worked together with Spaak and Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers on the Treaty of Rome before the final signing of the treaty in 1957.
1957 Shortly before the treaty was signed, Rothschild was standing beside Spaak gazing over the Forum Romanum in Rome, when Spaak said "I think that we have re-established the Roman Empire without a single shot being fired."
1957 Treaty of Rome (EEC Treaty)
1958-2009 European Economic Community (EEC)
1960 But, because of the Lockheed U-2 spy plane crisis, the conference was a failure and, so, Rothschild was sent to the Belgian Congo as number two to the governor.
1960 He arrived in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) two days after the rebellion by the constabulary, egged on by the Pan-Africanist Congolese independence leader, Patrice Lumumba.
1960 Robert was due to join the Belgian delegation at NATO after the summit conference in Paris in 1960 between Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1966 After two years as ambassador to Switzerland, where in 1966 he was president of the executive committee of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, he went as ambassador to Paris.
1973-1976 In 1973 he was appointed ambassador in London, where he remained en post until 1976 and then lived in London for the rest of his life.
While in Katanga, Rothschild had to steer his way delicately between Moise Tshombe the Rightist Katangan leader, who wanted Belgian support for the independence of the State of Katanga and Belgium, which was reluctant to grant it.
With the help of underground organisations and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) he (Robert Rothschild) escaped to Vichy France.
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Paul-Henri Spaak
Zhou Enlai