" I have
just received a letter from Mr. Shipley, stating that Lord Haldane had
prepared a statement in answer to this question. Thinking that your
readers would be interested in seeing this, I am sending it to you.
Faithfully yours,
JOHN GRIER HIBBEN.
Princeton, N.J., Nov. 24, 1914.
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_(Inclosure from Lord Haldane to the Master of Christ's
College, Cambridge.)_
10 Downing St., Whitehall, S.W., Nov. 14.
Dear Master of Christ's: The inclosed memoranda have been
specially prepared for me by the Foreign Office in answer to
your question. Yours truly,
HALDANE.
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(MEMORANDUM.)
It is quite untrue that the British Government had ever
arranged with Belgium to trespass on her country in case of
war, or that Belgium had agreed to this. The strategic
dispositions of Germany, especially as regards railways, have
for some years given rise to the apprehension that Germany
would attack France through Belgium. Whatever military
discussions have taken place before this war have been limited
entirely to the suggestion of what could be done to defend
France if Germany attacked her through Belgium.
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