What such a plan cannot compass, the
opinion of mankind, the final arbiter in such matters, will supply. It
would be unwise, it would be premature for a single Government, however
fortunately separated from the present struggle, it would be
inconsistent with the neutral position of any nation, which, like this,
has no part in the contest, to form or express a final judgment.
I need not assure you that this conclusion, in which I instinctively
feel that you will yourselves concur, is spoken frankly because in warm
friendship, and as the best means of perfect understanding between us,
an understanding based upon mutual respect, admiration, and cordiality.
You are most welcome and we are greatly honored that you should have
chosen us as the friends before whom you could lay any matter of vital
consequence to yourselves, in the confidence that your cause would be
understood and met in the same spirit in which it was conceived and
intended.
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OFFICIAL SUMMARY.
Findings Presented by the Belgian Royal Commission to President Wilson
at Washington, Sept. 16.
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I.
Acts at Linsmeau and Orsmael.
Belgium, which wanted peace, has been obliged by Germany to resort to
arms and to oppose a legitimate defense to an aggression which nothing
can justify, and which is contrary to the solemn pledges of treaties.
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