"BELGIUM KNOWS"

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 9

"BELGIUM KNOWS"

BRITAIN'S IDEALS

GERMANY THE DANGER

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. j Commenting on the announcement of official Belgian satisfaction; with the declaration by President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill, M. A. Nihotte, Consul in New Zealand for Belgium, recalled that in a recent speech the Belgian Prime Minister, M. Pier lot, had stated:— "Belgium knows Great Britain. She also knows Germany. British supremacy has never constituted a danger for us. We see in its maintenance a safeguard for our country, whether it is a question of our homeland or our overseas possessions. In the short space of one man's life Belgium has seen two German invasions. Our great concern is that our children may not see the same catastrophe repeated a third time. Belgium's only security lies in the destruction of the political and military power of Germany. I say of Germany and not simply of the Nazi regime. "The first Reich committed the crime of 1914. The second prepared the way for what it called revenge. The third has repeated the offence. Experience shows that under different regimes the same spirit of aggression still inspires German policy/ Against this danger it becomes indispensable to organise a system of guarantees which shall be real and lasting."