AN APPEAL TO AMERICA
T|io following is taken from a message to America, riven by King Albert of Belmum to Jli- Granvitto Fortescuo, in whose book (‘At the Front With Three Armies’) it now appears:— . 7 “ I hope that the American people will remember that Belgium has been scrapulonsly exact in carrying out its obligations as a neutral country. It has never been our pohey k> interfere in international politics. Like the United States, we have been concerned only with our own problems. Belgium is fighting to defend her neutrality, and she will fight as lon~ as that neutrality is invaded. “ “No nation has more hospitably enterta'ned foreigners than Belgium. Year after year w© have received them, always treating them as the best of friends. Our greatest boast in Belgium is our liberty and this liberty extends to all who live within onr borders.; The Germans who nave lived with us in Antwerp, Brussels Ostend have enjoyed this liberty to the fullest. . . . _“I hope that the American nation, as a neutral,"will hot forget how tho neutrality of Belgium has been violated. When the war is ended this fact should bear- heavily on tho terms of peace.” J
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Evening Star, Issue 15914, 21 September 1915, Page 5
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197AN APPEAL TO AMERICA Evening Star, Issue 15914, 21 September 1915, Page 5
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