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File No. 763.72119/1191

The Minister in the Netherlands ( Garrett) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
The Hague, January 28, 1918, 5 p.m.
[Received 10.41 p.m.]

1961. I learn that Hertling told the Dutch Minister at Berlin in answer to a question that he could riot have spoken otherwise than he did [about] Belgium; that public opinion would not let him promise the liberation of Belgium until promises had been made of the restoration of the German colonies.

Garrett