In the name of freedom, England, with might and with the
most recklessly egotistic policy, has founded her mighty colonial
empire, in the name of freedom she has destroyed for a century the
independence of the Boer republics, in the name of freedom she now
treats Egypt as an English colony and thereby violates international
treaties and solemn promises, in the name of freedom one after another
of the Malay States is losing its independence for England's benefit, in
the name of freedom she tries, by cutting German cables, to prevent the
truth being spread in the world.
The English Prime Minister is mistaken. When England joined with Russia
and Japan against Germany she, with a blindness unique in the history of
the world, betrayed civilization and handed over to the German sword the
care of freedom for European peoples and States.
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GREAT BRITAIN REPLIES.
Sir Edward Grey, Answering Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg, London,
Sept. 15.
"Does any one believe," asks the German Chancellor, "that England would
have interfered to protect Belgian freedom against France?" The answer
is that she would unquestionably have done so. Sir Edward Grey, as
recorded in the "White Paper," asked the French Government "whether it
was prepared to engage to respect the neutrality of Belgium so long as
no other power violates it.
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