TY - BOOK ID - 138317154 TI - Guarded neutrality : diplomacy and internment in the Netherlands during the First World War PY - 2013 VL - v. 86 SN - 13857827 SN - 9004249060 PB - Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Neutrality KW - Political refugees KW - Prisoners of war KW - History KW - Diplomatic history. KW - Prisoners and prisons, Dutch. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138317154 AB - Traditionally isolated from mainstream European affairs, in 1914 the Dutch had no major allegiances that bound them to any one side of the conflict. Geographically and economically caught between two of the major belligerents, Great Britain and Germany, the Netherlands was constantly vulnerable to attack from either side. In adopting a position of neutrality at the beginning of the war, the Dutch took a huge gamble. The internment of approximately 50,000 foreign troops in the Netherlands, some for almost the entire four years of the war, provided an important showcase for the Dutch Government to demonstrate its adherence to international law and its impartiality towards the all of the belligerents. ER -