How Diplomats Make War by Francis Neilson

Author:Francis Neilson [Francis Neilson]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 978-1-61016-100-8
Publisher: B. W. Huebsch
Published: 1940-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

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1 In the December, 1911, issue of the Review of Reviews Mr. W. T. Stead had something to say on the Moroccan Crisis:

“We were nearly involved in the stupendous catastrophe of a gigantic war with the greatest of all the World-Powers in order to enable France to tear up the Treaty of Algeciras by taking possession of the Empire of Morocco whose independence and integrity we were pledged to defend. It is not to our interest to make over to France a vast domain in Northern Africa. . . . The fact remains that in order to put France in possession of Morocco we all but went to war with Germany. We have escaped war, but we have not escaped the natural and abiding enmity of the German people. Is it possible to frame a heavier indictment of the foreign policy of any British Ministry? The secret, the open secret of this almost incredible crime against treaty faith, British interests, and the peace of the world, is the unfortunate fact that Sir Edward Grey has been dominated by men at the Foreign Office who believe all considerations must be subordinated to the one supreme duty of thwarting Germany at every turn, even if in so doing British interests, treaty faith and the peace of the world are trampled underfoot. I speak that of which I know.”

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