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Spain wanted Tangier incorporated in her Moroccan Protectorate; it would aid her in quelling the Moors. France wanted it returned to the full suzerainty of the Sultan of Morocco; as the northern gate to French Morocco, Tangier would be very useful to the French. Britain and Spain objected to the French plan, because it meant making Tangier a French port. Britain's attitude was that she could not tolerate any strong Power directly opposite Gibraltar and advocated a revision of the present international regime. Unable to agree, the Conference dispersed...
With the exception of the first chapter, the book deals with the period 1905 to September, 1914. It is to be followed by another dealing with a further period of the war as seen by Mr. Churchill. It deals with the Moroccan question, the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir, the rivalry between Britain and Germany on the seas. The days immediately preceding the war are described with graphic minuteness from the naval angle, as are the opening phases of the world conflict. The author's descriptions of and anecdotes about famous personalities are, from...
...Moroccan situation gave Italy her chance to step into Tripoli, a land filled with a motley crowd of people. There are whites, Arabs, and Negroes composing the chief element of the population, and there are the Bedouins or nomadic Arabs living in the oases which are sprinkled over the desert and around the towns. But these people are hard to civilize and, as much as they hate their Turkish conquerors, they like them better than they do the Christians. The country has always been closed to the civilizing influences which have sometimes been set toward it. It remains a land...
...first of these was necessary to the maintenance of the status quo in the countries of the western Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic. The Algeciras conference, although it has by no means yet solved the Moroccan question, has put Spain in a better position than any it has occupied since the war with the United States...
...speaker discussed the Morocco crisis of 1905, in which France and Germany's nearly came to open warfare. The trouble started in February, 1905, with Germany's encroachment on the old privileges of France in Moroccan territory. The French representative in Morocco informed the German minister that his country was not satisfied with the condition of affairs; Berlin asked for more specific charges. The trouble quickly became complicated by the interference of the two home governments and the mistakes of M. Delcasse, the French minister of foreign affairs. Emperor William's inflammatory speech in Tangier still further aroused public opinion...