The British minister, making his own inquiries, was told that if British troops landed before a German invasion or without a formal Belgian request, the Belgians would open fire. Belgium’s rigid purity confirmed what the British never tired of repeating to the French – that everything depended upon the Germans violating Belgian neutrality first.
-Barbara W. Tuchman
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