“WAR UNLIKELY”
BELGIAN CONSUL’S VIEW LOWERS DESIRE PEACE MELBOURNE, June 20. Mr. F. F. Jansen, who had three years as Consul for Belgium at Cologne and who is now going to Sydney as Consul-General for Belgium in Australia, thinks that another world war is unlikely. He arrived in Melbourne in the Orontes to-night. “So many great diflieullics —such as the war in Spain, the Far Eastern trouble, and the occupation of Austria already have been overcome without a world war being caused that we should not be alarmed,” he said. "Before 1914 any ol' those incidents would have brought the great Powers into conflict, but now the Powers all want peace, and as long as that continues there will be no war.” Mr. Jansen said that, although Belgium was not joining in the present armament race as much as other countries, she was looking carefully to her defence. She was determined In protect her frontiers from aggression.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19679, 11 July 1938, Page 6
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