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... Belgium. Bassompierre, Baron Alfred de, The Night of August 2–3, 1914, at the Belgian Foreign Office, tr. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1916. Beyens, Baron, Deux Années à Berlin, 1912–14, 2 vols., Paris, Plon, 1931. Cammaerts, Emile, Albert ...

... Belgium , maintaining her strict neutrality , had not up to now settled on any plan of campaign , mobilization was ... Albert determined on a final private appeal to the Kaiser . He composed it in consultation with his wife , Queen ...

... The Guns of August . New York : Macmillan , 1962 . Willequet , Jacques . Albert Ier , roi des Belges : Un portrait ... Belgian Chamber of Deputies in 1892. The leader of the Belgium 83.

... Albert and the Belgians , tr . , New York , Morrow , 1935 . ESSEN , LÉON VAN DER , The Invasion and the War in Belgium from Liège to the Yser , tr . , London , Unwin , 1917 . GALET , GENERAL EMILE JOSEPH , Albert , King of the Belgians ...

... Albert rejected participating in Allied of fensive operations during most of the war be- cause of his disagreement ... The Guns of August . New York : Macmillan , 1962 . See also ALBERT I , King of BELGIUM ; BEL- GIUM INVASION Of ...

Presents the full text of the speech given on August 4, 1914, by King Albert I of Belgium (1875-1934) to the Belgain Parliament.