ce The calculated indiscretion of our "Athbassador at Paris forms the subject of'many articles in the English and French Press, 'The Times says The Féench know very well' that Fishoda does not stand' alone, and that negotiations went' on inthe name of Fashéda"simply to save their feelings from~ the irritation of ing the whole extent of their ambitions continually called-in question. -But''when they had eased off the pressure by evacuation Fashoda, did' they -frankly -accept the actual situation as- understood by themselves -aid everybody else? We may not know as much as a Foreign Minister but we have the-strong-fest impression that, they have since: done their best to make that concession illigory, and are' now stubbornly refusing to adniit "the claim' of Egypt and of this cotritry tothe Nile basin belonging to the first atid reéon-Gquered cly the'sécond. 'That, we opine, is Why *Sir—Bdntind ' Monson' has "thought "it necessary tovutter Wwords'of waving and ox. postulation, "It is' all very. well-to laugh at ML: Deloncle; but the: attitude of the em, is the: clearest: proof: we could desire -of the truth of what we said yesterday—that if the farceur goes unchecked he will have plenty of French support. It is the truest kindness tosay at once that any official countenance Deloncle and' his schools will go far to provoke measures which "the French' presumably would' not desire. all know what the French schools would meau—centres for the propagation''of disiiffection and: s tion by the sime means. that ave bee long-and so sedulously "employed -in Cairo and Alexandria.
"The Overland Mail is inclined-to' thitik at first' that Sir Edmund" Monson's speech Was a mistake as coming' from the: mouth of an: Ambassador, -and that public! remarks on' short-lived " Ministries,' "and warnings not to-thwart by-petty mau-courtes," or indulge in ill-considered provocation,' had better come from the Foreign Secretary bit. it goes "oni" ta say
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