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The Belgian Embassy to the Department of State
The Belgian Government thanks the Government of the United States for having informed it of the official note addressed to China and Russia on the subject of the situation in Manchuria. The idea which inspired the American initiative has the entire sympathy of the Belgian Government. Like the Government of the United States, the Belgian Government is greatly concerned with seeing the provisions [Page 399] of the Paris Pact scrupulously respected by all its signatories.
If public opinion did not watch over their strict observation, the moral force of the Pact would be seriously weakened in the eyes of the world.
The Belgian Government is glad to learn that at present it seems that the Sino-Russian difference is to be the object of a pacific settlement.