BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13651, 7 February 1910, Page 7

BRITAIN AND GERMANY.

THE POSITION OF HOLLAND

INTEGRITY SUFFICIENTLY GUARANTEED. United PTess Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. AMSTERDAM, February 4. Replying to Senator van Heockor, the Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs refused to ask for a further declaration of guarantees that ' Great Britain and Germany, in the case of war, would respect the integrity and neutrality of the Netherlands. The Minister added that the country's integrity was sufficiently guaranteed.

The declaration lias received attention, owing to Germany's supposed designs on Holland.

In the first of his series of articles on the German menace, Mr Robert Blatchfoxd, writing in tlie "Dai'y Jlail," says:—"Germany sorely needs more ports, a greater seaboard. Belgium and Holland would be to her invaluable: the integrity of Belgium and Holland is guaranteed by Britain —and France. How many wans has Russia waged in her efforts to gain access to the sea " The writer Te-i>ublishes the following passage from a statement by Regierungjsrat .Martin in the "Standard" as far back as July, 1907, which _» quoted .by the "National Defence Magazine":—"German policy does not now aim at incorporating the Baltic provinces of Russia and Russian Poland in the German Empire, nor does it aim at bringing about a closer relation between Germany and Austria-Hungary. German policy does not aim at establishing a German protectorate over European and Asiatic Turkey, nor at the addition of Holland and Belgium to the Federal German Empire. Nevertheless, all theso changes will take place in our own time, within tlie next twenty or thirty years, and no one in Germany will bo able to arrest the inevitable" trend of events. Germany will achieve lier destiny without consciously pursuing these aims."