Zitat Ferguson:
It also worried General Sir John French, Nicholson’s successor as CIGS, that the Belgians might be prepared to disregard a limited infringement of their territory. The meeting concluded that
"In order to bring the greatest possible pressure to bear upon Germany, it is essential that the Netherlands and Belgium should either be entirely friendly to this country, in which case we should limit their overseas trade, or that they should be definitely hostile, in which case we should extend the blockade to their ports." *
In other words: if Germany had not violated Belgian neutrality in 1914, Britain would have. This puts the British government’s much-vaunted moral superiority in fighting ‘for Belgian neutrality’ in another light.
* PRO CAB 2/3, CID meeting, 6 Dec. 1912. Cf. Lloyd George, War Memoirs, vol. I, pp. 30f. (Fußnote)
Zitiert so nach Ferguson, Pity of War, S. 67 (1. Aufl.)
Zum Kontextualisieren der Krise für GB: Dezember 1912.
Zum Kontextualisieren der Balkankrise für D: deutscher Kriegsrat mit KaWeZwo.
Zum Kontextualisieren im Fall eines deutschen Angriffskrieges in Europa für die Entente: Militärplanung und Generalstabsbesprechungen Joffre mit den Briten zum "Fall Belgien", und Reaktion der Politik. Stichwort: Primat.
It also worried General Sir John French, Nicholson’s successor as CIGS, that the Belgians might be prepared to disregard a limited infringement of their territory. The meeting concluded that
"In order to bring the greatest possible pressure to bear upon Germany, it is essential that the Netherlands and Belgium should either be entirely friendly to this country, in which case we should limit their overseas trade, or that they should be definitely hostile, in which case we should extend the blockade to their ports." *
In other words: if Germany had not violated Belgian neutrality in 1914, Britain would have. This puts the British government’s much-vaunted moral superiority in fighting ‘for Belgian neutrality’ in another light.
* PRO CAB 2/3, CID meeting, 6 Dec. 1912. Cf. Lloyd George, War Memoirs, vol. I, pp. 30f. (Fußnote)
Zitiert so nach Ferguson, Pity of War, S. 67 (1. Aufl.)
Zum Kontextualisieren der Krise für GB: Dezember 1912.
Zum Kontextualisieren der Balkankrise für D: deutscher Kriegsrat mit KaWeZwo.
Zum Kontextualisieren im Fall eines deutschen Angriffskrieges in Europa für die Entente: Militärplanung und Generalstabsbesprechungen Joffre mit den Briten zum "Fall Belgien", und Reaktion der Politik. Stichwort: Primat.