Word: moroccans
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Dates: during 1908-1908
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...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...
...positions, past and present, M. Tardieu has been brought into relation with most of the diplomatic leaders in Europe. He owes to these relations his extensive knowledge of the questions of the day. During the Moroccan crisis in 1905-1906, he played an important part, and exerted an undeniable influence upon the course of events. He published a book entitled "The Conference of Algeciras," containing revelations as accurate as they were unexpected. M. Tardieu is also the author of another work, "Diplomatic Questions," which was "crowned" by the French Academy, and in which is found the same quality of intimate...