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...statesman, whose diplomacy saved his country from ultimate destruction, has been laid in his last resting place. M. Delcassé died of heart disease at Nice...
...creation of an entente depends, first, on necessity-the ex-Kaiser and German Kultur supplied that; second, on the invitation of one power to another-King Edward VII took the lead there. But Edward the Peacemaker remained king of a "perfide Albion," enemy of France, until Delcassé performed the incredibly great feat of making France accept the entente which was to be her salvation...
...Delcassé was Foreign Minister 1898-1905. His way was beset with the thorns of imperial rivalries. Due to a military incident war with England was threatened over Fashoda, a mud village in the heart of Africa. Later, when diplomatic relations had been strengthened by the Entente Cordiale, came the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Tangiers with the ulterior object of testing the young Franco-British friendship. The visit caused the downfall of Delcassé, but his diplomatic triumph became evident in later years when Germany found that her filibustering attempts in Morocco had succeeded in alienating the whole...