Great Engellex
Established Nation
MAANDAG, 3 FEBRUARI 1954
TO HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.
Opgedragen zich te uiten, zoals toegestaan door de autoriteit van de Kroon;
Instructed to express as permitted by the authority of the Crown;
Opgedragen zich te uiten, zoals toegestaan door de autoriteit van de Kroon;
Instructed to express as permitted by the authority of the Crown;
The Government of his Majesty the High King of Ivernia.
I, Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Lisse, have the honour to inform the Government of his Majesty of Ivernia, that I have been instructed by the Crowned Government of Lisse, with full endorsement of the States-General, to propose to his Majesty's Government a commencement of negotiation relative to the establishment of a formal relationship between the Kingdom of Lisse and the High Kingdom of Ivernia in areas of common interest, with a view to a more unified and co-ordinated approach to stresses upon European stability and prosperity.
The Crowned Government is persuaded that his Majesty's Government will see in this measure, an unquestionable proof of the sincere desire of the Crowned Government to place the friendly relations of the two countries beyond the reach of those misunderstandings which either the absence or the inadequacy of precise arrangements on subjects of the greatest delicacy and importance might from time to time occasion. It is under the influence of this solicitude, that the Royal Secretary of Foreign Affairs has charged myself to express to his Majesty's Government, his unfeigned regret that there are distresses in Europe that would require the Crowned Government to propose formal understandings with his Majesty’s Government in the areas of commerce and security, and at the same time to declare his entire confidence that the just and liberal sentiments which animate his Majesty's Government, corresponding with those which belong to the Crowned Government of Lisse, cannot fail to lead, without delay or difficulty, to such an issue of the negotiation which is now proposed, as shall be suited in all respects, to the rights and interests of both nations, and therefore calculated to insure a long continuance of the friendship which so happily subsists between them.
One of the primary objects of this approach of the Crowned Government to adjust with his Majesty's Government a formal and explicit arrangement relative to the character and energies of the Valkanese Government, which has excited in a very great degree the sensibility of the States-General and the Governors of the Zwarte Kust alike, and claimed the anxious attention of the Crowned Government. The incidents alluded to, is the abhorrent policies of the Valkanese Government in Southern Himyar. The effect of these policies is, that the enlightened and industrious civilisations of Gallia-Germania and Scania, with the morality of our Christian virtues, are utterly dishonoured to those of Himyar and Europe, and one of the most essential rights of the nation-states and powers in Himyar utterly violated; that the legitimate and abiding interests of those, other than Valkanese, within Himyar, are forced from the quiet pursuits of a lawful commerce and civilisation into the severe and dangerous spiralling escalation of violent destruction.
The Crowned Government of Lisse has accordingly made the distresses of the subject of frequent appeals and statements to the Valkanese Government; having extinguished all hope of an immediate adjustment of this subject by diplomacy, the Crowned Government felt that they were called upon by candour as well as by their duty to the Kingdom of Lisse, and our friends in the Kingdom of Bangala, to inform the Valkanese Government, that the appeals relative to the violent conquests having failed, they had no justification to conclude a continuance of amity, so as to bind the Crowned Government of Lisse from not pursuing measures for the purpose of retaliation and containment. The Royal Secretary of Foreign Affairs did accordingly give the Valkanese Government this information in the most explicit terms, and the diplomacy was in consequence suspended.
The Royal Secretary of Foreign Affairs has transmitted to me, for consideration, a copy of a statement, together with intelligences of the circumstances connected with the Valkanese conduct in Southern Himyar, with the statement providing their sanction, agreed in the meantime to concur with the Carentanian Government, as the international community were invited to do, in an effort to adjust the situation in Southern Himyar; the statement has not been submitted. It appears that the Crowned Government considers this collateral proceeding upon a concern of such paramount importance, as unsuitable for Leidschendam and Alderburgh to remain ignorant of, additionally the governments of Portusgalia, Hulst, and the Fennian Union. In this opinion the Crowned Government does but continue to respect the considerations which heretofore induced the Carentanian Government to believe that an arrangement upon this point ought to stipulate with precision against the Valkanese conduct in question; the Crowned Government is nonetheless alarmed at the consequential possibilities of providing quarter to the Carentanian Government to influence and adjust the interests of colonial entities in Himyar. The Minister-President is thus desirous for a formal arrangement of Lisse and Ivernia for the points underlined; and in the instructions which, in conformity with that opinion, the Royal Secretary of Foreign Affairs has provided, the Minister-President does but manifest his reliance upon the spirit of justice and amity, which he is assured his Majesty's Government will bring to the consideration of a subject so interesting to the rights and feelings of a friendly nation, for such an adjustment of this, as well as of every other question belonging to the relations of the two countries, as shall confirm their dispositions to mutual kindness, and promote the happiness and prosperity of both.
Pieter van MUSSCHENBROEK
[MENTION=1187]Ivernia[/MENTION]