New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1: From the Beginning to March, 1915, With IndexVarious
History
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1: From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index
Various
World War, 1914-1918
But then the violation of Belgian neutrality! How with the aid of this
bugaboo the entire neutral world has been stirred up against us, after
England made it the hypocritical excuse for her declaration of war! We
knew very well that England and France were determined to violate this
neutrality; but, then, we ought to have been very good; we ought to have
waited until they did so. Waited until their armies would break into our
country across our unprotected Belgian frontier! In other words, we
ought to have committed national suicide. Whoever, even up until now,
has doubted the German assertion that Belgium was under one roof with
England and France, and had herself thrown away her neutrality, must
have his eyes opened by the latest official developments. The documents
of the Belgian General Staff which have fallen into our hands contain an
agreement according to which the march through Belgium of British troops
in the case of a Franco-German war was provided for in every detail.
Whosoever in the face of these documents repeats the assertion that we
have committed a violation of innocent Belgium gives aid to a historical
forgery.
We have violated the alleged neutrality of Belgium in self-defense. On
the other hand, the Japanese, egged on and supported by England, have
violated the real neutrality of China from pure lust for robbery. For
the three great powers allied against Germany and Austria have not been
satisfied with their own nominal superiority of 220 millions against 110
millions! In addition to this they have urged on into war against us a
Mongolian people, the most dangerous enemy of the white race and its
culture. They have supplemented their armies by a motley collection of
all the African negro tribes. They lead into battle against us Indian
troops, and the Christian Germanic King of England prays to God for the
victory of the heathen Hindus over his coreligionists and blood
relatives. Americans, does your racial feeling, at other times so
sensitive, remain silent in view of this unexampled shame? Do you accord
to the English and the French, who are attacking us in co-operation with
the Russians, the Servians, and the Montenegrins, who are dirtying
themselves with a brotherhood in arms with the yellow skins, the brown
skins, and the blacks, the right to declare themselves the
representatives of civilization and us to be barbarians?
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