There are false and true,
And we want to render you your due.
But our hearts go out to that ravished land
Where a few grim heroes make their stand,
And our ears hear faintly, from overseas,
The wailing cry of those refugees--
_"Belgium--Belgium--Belgium!"_
America's Neutrality
By Count Albert Apponyi
[From THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 28, 1915.]
The letter which follows was sent by Count Albert Apponyi to
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, and was written in the latter part
of last month in Budapest. Count Apponyi, who is one of the
most distinguished of contemporary European statesmen, was
President of the Hungarian Parliament from 1872 to 1904. He
was formerly Minister of Public Instruction, Privy Councillor,
Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and
Member of the Interparliamentary Union.
I have been greatly interested in your account of American neutrality
in the present European crisis. I must confess that I had seen it in a
somewhat different light before and that some of the facts under our
notice still appear to me as hardly concordant with the magnificent
attitude of impartiality, nay, not even with the international duties of
neutrality, which intellectual and official America professes to keep.
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