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The Minister in Belgium ( Whitlock ) to the Secretary of State

158. I learn through a deputy from Luxemburg, where the powers of the Grand Duchess have been suspended by the chamber, that the liberal element in the Grand Duchy fear an effort on the part of France to annex it. He says that the enlightened opinion in Luxemburg favors an arrangement looking to possible eventual reunion with Belgium. The Luxemburg question may be a difficult point at the peace conference. I am sending by mail to Washington and to Colonel House at Paris a lengthy report on this situation and on the problem of Dutch Limburg and the mouth of the Scheldt.9

Whitlock
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