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So we see that Belgium's status ia different from that of

China.

Belgium to some extent is a VOLUNTARI belligerent- not

entirely voluntary perhaps, for the chances are that she would

have liked to stay out altogether but voluntary in the sense

that she was offered two alternatives, weighed then, and decided

that her best chance lay in taking sides against Germany. Just

as Germany's opponents followed the rule of self-interest in

wanting Belgium to remain neutral (because it was to their stra-

tegical advantage for her to be neutral), so did Belgium follow

what she believed to be the rule of self-interest in becoming

a belligerent.

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That will be, however, merely because a certain international

combination now existing (but which has no assurance or even pro-

bbability of long continuing to exist) wants it that way as

against other possible alternatived.

Belgium will romain, as she

was before this war started, a pawn in the game of European poli-

tics, liable to be sacrificed at any time to the interests of any

of the Powers or a combination of Powers. Meanwhile, her country

is devastated, her people suffer, her carefully built-up industry

is injured for years to come.

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There was an reasonable RICUSK not a right, not even a jus

Justifiakždon, but an excuse = for Germany's forcible violation

of Belgium's neutrality after she had failed to get Belgium's

consent to a creation of a war zone. There is not even a reason-

able excuse for forcible violation of China's neutrality in the

case of Kiachou.

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