The Neutrality of Belgium

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 - 110 頁
 

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第 74 頁 - On the other hand, if there were a violation of the neutrality of Belgium by one combatant while the other respected it, it would be extremely difficult to restrain public feeling in this country.
第 85 頁 - It was a matter of life and death for them, as if they had gone by the more southern route they could not have hoped, in view of the paucity of roads and the strength of the fortresses, to have got through without formidable opposition entailing great loss of time. This loss of time would have meant time gained by the Russians for bringing up their troops to the German frontier. Rapidity of action was the great German asset, while that of Russia was an inexhaustible supply of troops.
第 13 頁 - Majesty and His Allies on the one part, and His Majesty the King of France and Navarre on the other, their Heirs and Successors, their Dominions and Subjects, respectively.
第 109 頁 - ... man's duty not to live, but to die. The duty, in case of shipwreck, of a captain to his crew, of the crew to the passengers, of soldiers to women and children, as in the noble case of the Birkenhead; these duties impose on men the moral necessity, not of the preservation, but of the sacrifice of their lives for others, from which in no country, least of all, it is to be hoped, in England, will men ever shrink, as indeed, they have not shrunk. It is not correct, therefore, to say that there is...
第 92 頁 - The territory of neutral Powers is inviolable. Art. 2. Belligerents are forbidden to move troops or convoys of either munitions of war or supplies across the territory of a neutral Power.
第 42 頁 - London, at the expiration of six months from the date hereof, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms.
第 42 頁 - The Belgian territory shall be composed of the provinces of South Brabant ; Liege ; Namur ; Hainault ; West Flanders ; East Flanders ; Antwerp ; and Limbourg ; such as they formed part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands constituted in 1815, with the exception of those districts of the province of Limbourg which are designated in Article IV.
第 108 頁 - ... excuse admitted, by the law. It is further admitted that there was in this case no such excuse, unless the killing was justified by what has been called
第 14 頁 - Congress attention shall be paid to the establishment of the principles according to which the duties to be raised by the States bordering on the Rhine may be regulated, in the mode the most impartial and the most favourable to the commerce of all nations.
第 44 頁 - VII. Belgium,, within the limits specified in Articles I. II. and IV., shall form an independent and perpetually neutral State. It shall be bound to observe such neutrality towards all other States.

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