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

It has thus far in this conflict been a habit of Prime Minister Albert Edward of the British Republic to forgo facts in the interest of much more interesting falsehoods. What precisely has forced Albert Edward to resort to these childish lies is a matter of conjecture, but it can be assumed that the Prime Minister's insistence on intervention in the war on the European continent was not popular with the British people, only so recently removed from a violent Marxist revolt. It is not unreasonable to make the estimation, then, that London's voice rising once again to discuss matters across the Atlantic is not truly a speech to the European powers, but the British people themselves. Albert is fashioning himself a distraction, and is willing to sew whatever lies are necessary to create such a distraction.

The Foreign Office of the Kingdom of the Netherlands would like to correct the British Republic's statements pertaining to Dutch relations with the United States of America. The truth can be summarized as thus: no discussion of any kind has occurred between the Dutch and the Americans, least of all one pertaining to American intervention in Canada. The United States' government and citizens should be concerned about the civil unrest in the south-east of their country more so than a war in Europe, and both the King and elected officials of the Netherlands suspect that immediately after the importance of domestic affairs to the American people comes the importance of the country's frontiers. Frontiers such as the border with Mexico, which the British Republic has recently confessed to militarising. 

The stance of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on all matters pertaining to the United States is one of either total neutrality or support proportional to that between any two friendly sovereign nations. Let the world not forget that the Netherlands was the voice of reason, insisting upon European non-intervention in the American Civil War, when Paris and London were sending their men off to die in New York. Praise be to God that both countries, France and Britain, regained their sanity before such an invasion took place. It is the utmost hope of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that Victoria's successor does not prove as insane as the woman herself; unfortunately, Albert Edward's recent statements do not lean any great amount of credence to that hope.