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would engage to remain neutral. I replied that I could not say

that; our hands were still free, and we were considering what

our attitude should be. All I could say was that our attitude

would be determined largely by public opinion here, and that the

neutrality of Belgium would appeal very strongly to public

opinion here. I did not think that we could give a promise of

neutrality on that condition alone. The Ambassador pressed me

as to whether I could not formulate conditions on which we would

remain neutral. He even suggested that the integrity of France

and her colonies might be guaranteed. I said that I felt obliged

to refuse definitely any promise to remain neutral on similar

terms, and I could only say that we must keep our hands free".

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In the present state of affairs I wish to make no comment on

this statement beyond this: that later on it may be regretted that

Sir Edward Gray made no response to the urgent request of the

German Ambassador that he would formulate conditions for England's

neutrality, and that it seems a pity that when Mr. Asquith,

his speech on the 7th instant denounced the earlier tentative

proposals of Germany as "this infamous proposal", he should have

made no allusion to this later idea, to which no such words

could have been applied.

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I remain,

Yours truly,

William S. Clark.

Street, Somerset, August 12, 1914.

This, then, is clear, that Belgian neutrality formed but an

excuse for Great Britain drawing the aword. Then asked by the

German Ambassador whether Germany's guarantee of Belgium's neu-

trality would satisfy, no, even more when urgently asked to

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