Description
Object description
whole: the image occupies the upper half, with the title separate and positioned across the top and the subtitle separate
and positioned across the bottom, both in white. The text is separate and positioned over the lower half, also in white. All set against a
green background and held within a narrow yellow and black border.
image: a reproduction of the seals and signatures of the representatives of Britain (Lord Palmerston), Belgium (Sylvain Van De Weyer),
Austria (Senfft), France (H Sebastiani), Germany (Bülow) and Russia (Pozzo Di Borgo) from the Treaty of London of 1839, which guaranteed
Belgian independence and neutrality.
text: Y 'DARN PAPUR'
[six signatures follow] Palmerston
Sylvain Van De Weyer
Senfft
H. Sebastiani
Bülow
Pozzo Di Borgo
Dyma enw a sêl cynrychiolwyr y chwe Gallu wrth y 'Darn Papur' - sef, y Cytundeb a arwyddwyd yn 1839, er mwyn diogelu anibyniaeth àc
iawnderau Belgium.
'Palmerston' a arwyddodd dros Brydain, 'Bülow' dros Brwsia.
Mae'r Ellmyn wedi tori eu llw, gan anrheithio Belgium. Rhowch gymhorth i gadw'n lân anrhydedd eich gwlad gan adfer ei fhyddid i Belgium.
YMRESTRWCH HEDDYW
JOHNSON, RIDDLE AND CO., LTD., LONDON, S.E
PUBLISHED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY RECRUITING COMMITTEE, LONDON.
-POSTER NO. 15
-W9263
-5000
-12/14
[The 'Scrap of Paper'. Here on the 'Scrap of Paper' is the name and seal of the representatives of the Six Powers, namely the Agreement
signed in 1839 to protect the independence and rights of Belgium. 'Palmerston' signed on behalf of Britain, 'Bülow' on behalf of Prussia.
The Germans have broken their pledge and are ravaging Belgium. Help preserve untarnished the honour of your country by restoring unto
Belgium its freedom. Enlist today.]
Physical description
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster No. 15.
W 9263.
An English language version was also produced (see PST 11402).
Label
The 1839 Treaty of London guaranteed Belgium's independence and neutrality, and was signed by all the major European
powers, including Britain and Prussia.
At the start of the First World War, Germany broke the treaty by invading Belgium, using the lightly defended country as a route into
France. Britain, compelled by the treaty to defend Belgium, protested to the German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg on 4 August
1914. He, infamously, dismissed the treaty as 'a scrap of paper' and later the same day Britain declared war on Germany.
Inscription
P.R.C. 15 Welsh