. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . sharp Englishcomment on the embargo placed on aGerman wheat shipment to Belgiumprevious to the outbreak of hostilities?Belgium was a convenient excuse, avery flimsy one at that, of Englishdiplomatic hypocrisy. Perflde Albion! It would be well for we Americans,before rashly condemning Germany, torecall the many emergencies we had tomeet in connection with the PanamaCanal. We took the larger view of thesituation and overlooked the technical-ities. The United States, Columbia,Panama, and the Hay-Pauncefotetreaties present many analogies with
. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . sharp Englishcomment on the embargo placed on aGerman wheat shipment to Belgiumprevious to the outbreak of hostilities?Belgium was a convenient excuse, avery flimsy one at that, of Englishdiplomatic hypocrisy. Perflde Albion! It would be well for we Americans,before rashly condemning Germany, torecall the many emergencies we had tomeet in connection with the PanamaCanal. We took the larger view of thesituation and overlooked the technical-ities. The United States, Columbia,Panama, and the Hay-Pauncefotetreaties present many analogies withthe Belgian situation. The men who were intrusted withthe safeguarding of Germany wereactuated by a high consciousness oftheir mobilizations towards imperative from a purelymilitary point of view, the passagethrough Belgium may have been. Itwas undertaken with the greatest re-luctance and with every desire to avoidfriction. The Belgian resistance is oneof the most regrettable features of thewar. BELGIAN NEUTRALITY A MYTH AND A SNARE 61. FURTHERING GERMAN KULTURGerman OflBcers give Instructions in a School In Brussels(By Courtesy of the Chicago Abendpost) BELGIUMS CHANGE OP POLICX. Translation of Editorial Which Ap-peared in German in the IllinoisStaats-Zeitung, Cliicago,September 9, f914. The latter part of June, 1908, ormore than six years ago, an articleappeared in the Antwerp Matin,which read thus: Belgium recog-nizes the value of Germanys constantmode of dealing governed as it is bya spirit of loyalty; Germany wantsno foreign property, and impressedwith a regard for the rights of na-tions, would not impose on a weakernation. England, according to U. Harrison, has cast a longingeye on Belgian Congo, which lies be-tween English possessions and forthat reason is an obstacle in thebuilding of the railroad from theCape to Cairo. She wants to wipeout the Congo as she did the Trans-vaal and Orange Free State and withthis object began a campaign of def-ama
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