NEUTRAL BELGIUM
DELICATE SITUATION ANXIETY OF BRITAIN DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 7, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. March 6 Conversations are proceeding through diplomatic channels between London and Brussels owing to the delicate situation arising in connection with Belgian neutrality, it is feared with receding chances for a Western Pact.
Herr Hitler's promise to respect Belgium's territoriality may divorce Belgium from England and France. Dr. van Zeeland, • Belgian Prime Minister, is anxious to maintain the Anglo-Franco-Belgiaa front, but pressure by M. Leon Degrelie's pro-Fascist Bex Party complicates the situation, a solution of which the British and Belgian Governments are endeavouring'to reach.
The Brussels correspondent of the Times says public opinion in Belgium is becoming increasingly apprehensive lest a diplomatic stalemate in Western Europe should furnish Herr Hitler with a pretext for a new manoeuvre, thus making Belgium's position even more difficult than it has been since the violation of the Locarno Treaty.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22671, 8 March 1937, Page 11
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