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cannot see any difference, morally and legally, between Germany' a

effort to have parts of Belgium declared in the war zone, and the

way Germany's opponents have forced China to declare such a war

sone of certain portions of Shantung. The alleged "infamous" part

of Germany's representations to Great Britain may have related

to Great Britain's own conception of her own responsibilities

and obligations - that is, she felt that for her not to go to

war would have been infamous because of obligations and responsi-

bilities toward France and Belgium. If that was so, then the

world has known nothing definite about such obligations and res- ponsibilities, and it seems that Germany might be excused if she

From the facts that

did not definitely know of their existence.

have been published, we can see nothing in Germany's proposals that need be called infamous as things go in modern diplomacy. If they were, then the violation of China's neutrality is doubly infamous, for it has not even the poor Justification of an allege

military necessity. But there was none to come to the aid of

China, and she must suffer it.

to them

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The moral China and Belgium can draw from what has happened that other nations, the whole world can take to heart,

for that matter is that no neutrality will be respected in war

that is not STRONG ENOUGH to protect itself, or that cannot

summon aid that is strong enough to give it protection.

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It is not neutrality that belligerent nations respect

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