Some
notes with reference to the subject may exist in the archives
at Brussels.
It should be noted that the date mentioned, namely, 1906, was
the year following that in which Germany had, as in 1911,
adopted a threatening attitude toward France with regard to
Morocco, and, in view of the apprehensions existing of an
attack on France through Belgium, it was natural that possible
eventualities should be discussed.
The impossibility of Belgium having been a party to any
agreement of the nature indicated or to any design for the
violation of Belgian neutrality is clearly shown by the
reiterated declarations that she has made for many years past
that she would resist to the utmost any violation of her
neutrality from whatever quarter and in whatever form such
violation might come.
It is worthy of attention that these charges of aggressive
designs on the part of other powers are made by Germany, who,
since 1906, has established an elaborate network of
strategical railways leading from the Rhine to the Belgian
frontier through a barren, thinly populated tract,
deliberately constructed to permit of the sudden attack upon
Belgium, which was carried out two months ago.
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