The Archive · 1911

FOREWARNED FOREARMED

Herr von Kiderlen- Wacchter said that Sir Edward Grey declared at the interview that he wished to emphasize that he desired a meeting because ho did not wish to be The German Ambassador replied denying that Germany's demands were unacceptable to France and stating that it would be more correct for England to wait until she could prove that any British interest. would be affected by Germany's action. If France did not consider that the recognition of her claims in Morocco was equivalent to German demands in another field, then France must put ap with the presence of a mun-of-war in Morocco as partof the bargain. Great Britain, he said, bad been compensated in Egypt, but Germany nowhere. The Ambassador knew nothing of the suppositions that Germany was proposing to build a naval station at Agadir.—Reuter.

Herr von Kit Waechter said that Sir Edward Grey replied that ho was in no way opposed to German extension in the heart of Africa, but that British interests might be most seriously affected by the Morocco question. For that reason he hoped for an agreement between France and Germany and only the undesired event of the failure to conclude such an agreement would he be obliged to say plainly that a continued occupation of Agadir would lead to explanations between Great Britain and Germany.

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