BELGIUM'S DESTINY.
DEMAND FOR FREEDOM.
BITTER LESSON FROM PAST.
A. and N.Z.
NEW YORK. Nov. 18.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Time# says that the Belgian Legation has issued a statement that Belgium is no longer willing to submit to the status quo of guaranteed neutrality like that existing before the war. Complete freedom would relieve Belgium of foreign control, and enable her to make arrangements for her own defence. Belgium must, bo allowed freedom to determine her own destiny, and must be free to adopt of her own volition a policy which will keep her out of the great international competitions and permit her to take necessary measures to defeat hostile design* against her in the event of a naw danger threatening.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17008, 15 November 1918, Page 6
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