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...King Albert did everything except his duty to Belgium during the War. What madness to resist the Germans! To think that Belgium might have profited???as Holland did, as America did! If only our King Leopold [died 1909] had been alive in 1914 everything would have been different. "Leopold would have claimed our rights as a neutral just as loudly as Albert claimed them. Then when the Germans still came on Leopold would have let them pass without the folly of spilling our young men's blood. Our factories would have been busier than ever. Our honor would have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Again, Flemings | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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