...incorporated in the treaty the now famous Article VII establishing the new state. It stipulated that : "Belgium within the limits specified in Articles I,...independent and perpetually neutral state. It shall observe the same neutrality toward all other states". 1 In the decades that followed, the neutral position...

...time. * Hertslet, " The Map of Europe by Treaty," II., p. 984. " Belgium, within the limits specified, shall form an independent and perpetually neutral...observe such neutrality towards all other states." Therefore, Great Britain entered into a separate treaty with Prussia, in August, 1870, by which it...

...Belgium and Holland, London, 15th November, 1831. "Article 7 : Belgium within the limits specified shall form an independent and perpetually neutral...state. It shall be bound to observe such neutrality toward all other states. "Article 15 : The port of Antwerp in conformity with the stipulations of Article...