Two neutral monarchs, the queen of the Netherlands and the king of the Belgians, offered their joint good offices for mediation between the powers whose casus belli, Poland's independence, had been eliminated (1939). They hoped, it seems, to avert by conciliation the threat that war would spill over their barely defended borders with Germany. Others had done likewise before. (N. Harman, 1980: 20)

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