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[b]The Foreign Office of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,[/b][/center]

It is the stance of the Dutch government that there is no nation on our God's green Earth which is subject to any portion of the Treaty of Constantinople. The entire operation of the treaty has been nothing but a flagrant lie to every single sovereign state in Europe, and through the role of the the spheres of influence, the world as a whole. Every single one of the signatories agreed to the terms for the sole reason that they could use them to their own personal benefit. The Treaty of Constantinople was a deceit built on lies, and any good that any of its signatories might have intended for it to do has absolutely and without question failed, outright and completely.

While all signatories of the treaty used it merely as a tool to serve their nation's will, some, like the Kingdom of Prussia, decided that liberation of the oppressed minorities of Europe was the will of their nation. Rectification of this continent's broken national borders, which are not respective of the will of the people who inhabit them, is a noble goal regardless of the means through which it is achieved. Other nations, though, like the French and British Empires, chose to use their powers given under the Treaty of Constantinople to further their goals of colonialism, and intervention in affairs outside of the continent in which every single one of the Treaty's signatories was located. They cannot possibly lie and pretend that their blockade and ensuring declaration of war on the United States of America had no connection to Constantinople, either—the existence of Article 7, which is now, apparently, being enacted upon the Netherlands—makes the British intent to use the Treaty as a tool to recollect North America all the more obvious.

If the Wallonians seek revenge for their poor state of affairs at present, it is their own King to whom their ire should be directed. Had Leopold not fled his own country, he could have signed for peace and been sipping wine in Charleroi by now, instead of Paris. The premier goal of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was and is the unity and sovereignty of the Dutch state. I warn the navies currently mustering in the North Sea that if they should choose to defy the sovereignty of the Netherlands, it will not be only the Dutch that they answer to, but all of the peoples of Europe that choose to accept the Dutch expression of sovereignty. If it is the reconquest of King William III's very birth place that compels the European continent to war, so be it.

Je maintiendrai — I will maintain.

The Netherlands does not yield.