On what date did Britain declare war on Germany following contention over Belgium 's neutrality ?
The editor of " The Times " , Geoffrey Dawson , later recalled that : " No one who sat in this place , as I did during the autumn of '38 , with almost daily visitations from eminent Canadians and Australians , could fail to realize that war with Germany at that time would have been misunderstood and resented from end to end of the Empire .