The literary digest . n Government has kept up the legal fiction of itspermanent neutrality, it was clear that it would be renouncedat the first favorable moment and that Belgium would declareits wish to reestablish an unfettered state under new laws. Like her neighbor Holland, as well as Denmark, she wisheshenceforth to exercise a voluntary neutrality, free from allformaUty or promise, and to be able to renounce it at will if itbe to her advantage to do so. Consequently she rejects the permanent neutrality for whichshe did not ask, which Avas forced upon her at the beginning ofher history by
The literary digest . n Government has kept up the legal fiction of itspermanent neutrality, it was clear that it would be renouncedat the first favorable moment and that Belgium would declareits wish to reestablish an unfettered state under new laws. Like her neighbor Holland, as well as Denmark, she wisheshenceforth to exercise a voluntary neutrality, free from allformaUty or promise, and to be able to renounce it at will if itbe to her advantage to do so. Consequently she rejects the permanent neutrality for whichshe did not ask, which Avas forced upon her at the beginning ofher history by diplomats and prevented her from having a trueforeign policy, and by its very character constituted more of aguaranty for the Powers—which were suspicious of one an-other—than for her. The result will l)e that at the Peace Conference—instead bflia\ang to accept a settlement propounded by the other Powers—Belgium will play her own part, the important role of an equaland sovereign state. SCIENCE -AND - INVENTION. Copyrighted by the International Film Service, New York. THE TRACKLESS WILDERNESS WILL YIELD ITS FRUITS AND ORES TO THESE GIANT PLANES. TO-MORROWS AIR-TRAVEL THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, inspirational, and senace-able of mans inventions will shortly be whoUy atmans service, carrying mails, freight, and passengersfor long distances at incredible speed, exploring wildernesses,surveying and mapping continents and oceans—doing a scoreof things that no vehicle hitherto at our disposal has been ableto effect. Already we are carrying our mails by airplane anddoing some other kinds of transportation. In Europe at leastone aerial ambulance is at work, and in places the airplane ismaintaining a fire-patrol in, or rather above, forest areas. Plansare on foot for extensive development of aerial transportation inseveral parts of the world, we are told by Robert Everett, whowrites for The Nations Business (Washington) an article en-titled New York to Bagdad via the Air-Line. He says:
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