Google translate doesn't work on scanned hardcopy books, only softcopy things.
I know only too well. My solution : typing it by myself.
Then the Belgiums have to call Berlin instead of London, haven't they?
Diplomacy was very important in WWI. If the Entente messes that up like Germany did IOTL, they might well loose like Germany did IOTL.
What I tried to wxplain : the belgians
didn't have to ask anybody ... as well as
nobody has to ask the belgians about intervening for defending/restituting its neutrality/integrity. That's not at all adressed in the treaty how the guarantee of the powers is to be executed.
The solution Gladstone found for this in 1870 was to make seperate but to everybody known treaties with France as well as Prussia in which he theatened :
- to fight Prussia with whatever means Gladstone might see fit and allying with France against Prussia
- to fight France with whatever means Gladstone might see fir and allying with France against Prussia
in case any of them would violate belgian territory in the course of their war 1870/71.
Really?!?! 4-6 pages?
Do you have a source for that in English? Even if you have 4-6 pages in German I'd like to figure it out.
Unfortunatly these plans were lost (as fas as is known so far, who knows what might still "sleep" insome undiscovered/yet unopened archives) due to bombing in WW II.
However, you can get an idea of what size they might have had from "
The Real German War Plan" where Terence Zuber also lists the documents the unknown compiler used.
4-6 pages may be a bit low number but including some maps etc. I would render them around a dozen or so.
These were the "battle plans" NOT the mobilisation orders, which run into the thousands ... and were burned with every new deployment plan.
(Otherwise we wouldn't even know anyhting of them).
There's nothing to explain here. I accept that not everyone agrees that Grey would want to enter the war once it erupted, but everyone knows that a lot of people think he would. You're being disingenuous. You don't get to tell me to "read up", when apparently you've never ever heard of widely known theory that Grey wanted to enter the war once it already erupted. You might disagree with it, but don't act like you've never heard of it.
I know very well about the "Grey wanted war" position and that it's widely spread (also on this board).
However, I've never seen someone producing some evidence for this in form of contemporary citations, documents, tellings of Greys co-workers, memoirs or similar.
What I asked you to explain was :
the
fact they were
already gunning for entering war with Germany

.
What "fact" ? What "gunning" ?
Surely you meant 31 July?
Yes I meant that. Sry ... typo.
... If he didn't, he'd actually make it clear to Germans that violating Belgium meant war, precisely so he wouldn't be "forced" to declare war in defence of Belgium.
...
So why he didn't threaten Germany ...
What he actually did ... on several occasions ... well before the 1.August (out of my head : on 27. or 28. the first time) in talks with the german ambassador Lichnowsky as well as through the british ambassador in Berlin to Bethmann-Holweg.