e, and the one bearing most intimately upon the honor and integrity
of your nation, is left without even the attempt to support it, save the
bare assertion by you and your colleagues. In the interests of a fair
understanding of Germany's position, I feel that it is incumbent upon
you to give us who are under such a deep debt of gratitude to German
scholarship in our own lives the opportunity of a full knowledge of all
the facts which definitely bear upon this present situation."

At the time of writing Prof. Eucken, I also wrote to a friend of mine,
Dr. A.E. Shipley, the Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, England,
asking him if he could get for me some authoritative statement from the
British Foreign Office concerning the assertion that "it has been proved
that France and England had resolved on such a trespass, and it has
likewise been proved that Belgium had agreed to their doing so." I have
just received a letter from Mr. Shipley, stating that Lord Haldane had
prepared a statement in answer to this question. Thinking that your
readers would be interested in seeing this, I am sending it to you.
Faithfully yours,

JOHN GRIER HIBBEN.

Princeton, N.J., Nov. 24, 1914.

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_(Inclosure from Lord Haldane to the Master of Christ's
College, Cambridge.)_

10 Downing St., Whitehall, S.W., Nov. 14.

Dear Master of Christ's: The inclosed memoranda have been
specially prepared for me by the Foreign Office in answer to
your question. Yours truly,

HALDANE.

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(MEMORANDUM.)

It is quite untrue that the British Government had ever
arranged with Belgium to trespass on her country in case of
war, or that Belgium had agreed to this. The strategic
dispositions of Germany, especially as regards railways, have
for some years given rise to the apprehension that Germany
would attack France through Belgium. Whatever military
discussions have taken place before this war have been limited
entirely to the suggestion of what could be done to defend
France if Germany attacked her through Belgium.

The Germans have stated that we contemplated sending troops to
Belgium. We had never committed ourselves at all to the
sending of troops to the Continent, and we had never
contemplated the possibility of sending troops to Belgium to
attack Germany.