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GERMAN RE-ARMAMENT WHERE BELGIUM STANDS FRANK DECLARATION' Cntteo Press Association—By Electric Telteraph—CopyriKht. (Received March 7, 2 p.m.) . BRUSSELS, March 6. The Count de Brocqueville, Prima Minister of Belgium, caused a sensation in the Senate by announcing that Belgium was prepared to accept the rearmament of Germany, which was no longer a vanquished country, but had recovered its strength and importance. The only ways to oppose her rearmament were to compel respect for the military causes of the Peace Treaty or to wage a preventive war, which was worse than the evil it sought to cure. He refused to launch Belgium-into such an adventure. The present situation was due to the great illusion of .the framers of the Versailles Treaty, in believing that it would be possible: indefinitely to keep a great nation disarmed. Belgium, in co-operation; with France, Britain, and Italy,. would do her utmost to endeavour to : arrange amicably with Germany to avoid •an armaments race.
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Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 10
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