In the midst of the turmoil, and not against the helpless rivalities where they have in their power." Lord Robert reviewed the tensions at a conference by the entente allies to provide relief for the suffering. He had asserted as a "lie" what he termed "Germany's attempt to justify its action by saying that Germany was responsible for unemployment in Delaium. "Three times during the past year, Lord Robert continued, "we have proposed to the Germans a definite solution. As the exports of Belgian manufactures and well-in-trade imports of raw materials might be made free under the control of the Indian Steer Commission, and that the commission might control all the funds arising out of the trade. To none of them, proposals have been made. The Germans have drained Belgium dry, and stripped them and we will know this policy was "liberally calculated to create a maximum amount of unemployment in order that when the proper moment arrives, their slave raids might become more secure." The Germans are going to Germany on an ordinary work. They are to be mobilized up and crushed in the great new German machine for mobilizing.  "They will be scattered to all the manufacturing towns in all the remote corners of Germany, and meet each year upon the machine they will never return in Belgium. It is this grinding up of a nation, pleased that is the most horrible feature of the situation." 