Strange indeed were the events that impelled Britain's Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon to rise in the House of Commons one day last week and say: "I feel sure that the whole House will join me m regretting the pain and indignation that have been caused throughout Belgium by this unfounded and irresponsible statement ... by Colonel Seton Hutchison to the effect that the late King of the Belgians was murdered." What the imaginative British lieutenant colonel, wounded and decorated four times during the War, had done was to put into words a...
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