Franco - Russian     allies was the fear that in the course of ↩
that war Germany     might get hold of Calais     and so dominate ↩
the Channel    , the war proving also in this respect to be ↩
a struggle for naval predomincance about the straights of the sea.

6)          The invasion of  B e l g i u m      by Germany was a ↩
very welcome pretext for the English government to stir up ↩
public opinion in their country. That it was nothing but a ↩
pretext is proved by the Entente violating the neutrality of ↩
Greece    , whose Ionian islands     were under the same guarantee ↩
of international neutrality as Belgium was. Also the so¬↩
called Belgium atrocities were nothing but a bluff, meant for ↩
agitating the public opinion in England     as well as in the ↩
neutral states. Germany does not understand as well as England ↩
to handle the world's public opinion, (her language being more ↩
that of facts than of words) Germans believe that the German ↩
soldier is a good-natured and a well-educated man, in any ↩
case better educated than his opponents as school statistics ↩
prove,- and for that raason not inclined to any unnecessary ↩
cruelty. On the other hand there happened dreadful atrocities, ↩
mutilations of wounded German soldiers by the Belgian civilians ↩
of which not a few nurses, who cured these poor people, could ↩
be witnesses,- their names being at the disposal of any ↩
neutral investigator. As long as these contradictory state¬↩
ments are not cleared up, any neutral who sticks to justice, ↩
will abstain from judgment.

7)          At the beginning of the war, Germany's situation ↩
seemad desperate. She had to fight against an overwhelming ↩
majority of enemies. This struggle will recall one day to