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Sir: Your German correspondent, Gerhard Lorenz (Letters, 5 September), gives us an admirably concise summary of the school of historical revisionism propagated by that distinguished scholar, the late Dr Goebbels. He writes: 'In 1914 it was Great Britain which made a world war out of threats of a local war.' But of course it was. Great Britain was quite unreasonably miffed when the treaty guaranteeing Belgium's neutrality was broken by the co-signatory guarantor, Germany — Bethmann-Holl- weg's 'scrap of paper'. As a result Brussels is today the site of the headquarters of the EEC rather than a provincial city in Gross Deutschland. I wonder what my compatri- ots, the Danes, can have been thinking about when they voted against Maastricht? Maybe Mr Lorenz should hurry up and write a letter to the Figaro before the refer- endum on 20 September.
Claus von Billow
109 Onslow Square, London SW7
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