"You have come to the right man to know.

I am a civilian, but there are few things in connection with my country which I do not understand.

Mr.Meyer here, who is a citizen of Brussels, will bear me out.

It is the book of a clever, intelligent, but misguided German writer which has been responsible for Belgium's unrest--Bernhardi's _Germany and the Next War_--that and articles of a similar tenor which preceded it." "Never read any of them," Norgate remarked.
"It was erroneously supposed," Selingman continued, "that Bernhardi represented the dominant military opinion of Germany when he wrote that if Germany ever again invaded France, it would be, notwithstanding her guarantees of neutrality, through Belgium.

Bernhardi was a clever writer, but he was a soldier, and soldiers do not understand the world policy of a great nation such as Germany.