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CHARGE: _Violation of Convention of Arbitration and Conciliation entered

into between Germany and the Netherlands on 20 May 1926._

PARTICULARS: In that Germany, without warning, and notwithstanding its

solemn covenant to settle by peaceful means all disputes of any nature

whatever which might arise between it and the Netherlands which were not

capable of settlement by diplomacy and which had not been referred by

mutual agreement to the Permanent Court of International Justice, did,

on or about 10 May 1940, with a military force, attack, invade, and

occupy the Netherlands, thereby violating its neutrality and territorial

integrity and destroying its sovereign independence.

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