International Law, far from condoning the armed invasion of the territory of a peaceful nation, emphatically condemns it. The invader or occupant does not acquire sovereign rights, in any sense of the term, by virtue of his forcible entry. On the contrary, his authority under international law is limited by extensive prohibitions, or the principles underlying said provisions, or usages, the laws of humanity, and the dictates of conscience.
Belgium is going through a second experience of the same ruthless in vader in the last quarter of a century, the same breaches of international law, the same cruel treatment, the same persecutions and inhuman behaviour of an invader devoid of any conscience.
Belgium's ordeal and sufferings are practically not advertised, and we are taking moral and corporal punishment with fatalism and the grim determination to bold out until final victory will be ours.
The world famous Cardinal Merder once said: "Neither the inhabitants not the public officials of occupied territories are under any moral obligation to respect the enemy administration."
Like in 1914-1918. the population of occupied Belgium is steadily increasing the difficulties of the Nazis who find, not only this spirit of nonce-operation, but an ever increasing wave of patriotism and open defiance of all The Royal prisoner, King Leopold, tops the list of our heroes and courageous men who are barehanded and chained, still resisting the Nazi gaoler.
The maniac of Berchtesgaten and all his followers who are fanatically obsessed by his leadership are now trembling at the prospect of a prolonged war and the continuous uprising of the countries they have dishonoured and enslaved.
An allied victory is now a certaintv: Belzium will be freed again from the German scourge, and will rise stronger than ever. and occupy between civilized nations the dace of honour due to her for the most eminent vert played by her sons in the cohovest of Law and Justice.
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