The papers of Wednesday published Sir Edward Grey's crushing reply
to these wrigglings of the German Chancellor. It is not surprising, he remarks, that the Chancellor should be anxious to explain away a phrase which debases the legal end moral currency of civilization. As regards the alleged proof of the forfeiture of Belgian neutrality, the facts are these. The documents found at Brussels recorded conversa- tions between British and Belgian officers in 1906, and again in 1911. Before the conversations took place it was expressly laid down on the British side that the discussion was to be limited to the means of helping Belgium, in case of need, to defend her neutrality. A marginal note upon the record explains that " the entry of the English into Belgium would only take place after the violation of our neutrality by Germany."
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