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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Comte De Mercy Argenteau, Governor of Brabant and Grand Chamberlain to King William I of the Netherlands: The Events of 1830, Translated From the French, and Edited, With an Introduction
King of the Netherlands in the h0pe of affecting the intolerant policy of that stub born scion of the House of Orange, we are brought to the interesting conjecture as to whether, had the Count's advice been followed, the great world war of to-day would not have assumed another aspect. A more enlightened attitude towards his joint kingdom would have rendered unneces sary William's final reluctant compliance with the arrangements arrived at in the Conference of London, and there might have been no treaty regarding Belgium's independence, no scrap of paper, whose violation by one of its signatories has chal lenged the moral judgment of mankind.
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