A BIT OF HISTORY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 105, 27 January 1908, Page 7

A BIT OF HISTORY.

After so-.long a period of quiescence,the dramatic intervention of M. Hanotuux-recalls .hi&torv of nearly tbrcc yeare ago, wnPIJ many ovet-shadowed .and .brow-bear- Jjrancc, •and ' when the Matters Moroccan . pohcy-nov . buttressed by the Aigcciras Convention-seemed doomed to practical extinction. -On that occasion M. Dtfcassc, as Foreign. Mmigtor and.tbo guiding spirit in Moroccan affairs, .. was tne victim anu the scapegoat.' . • •• • ' -j. i ,In Juno, 1905, M. Delcasse signntion.' It was'then stated that owing to the criticisms of his t-n® Socialists—and to -"the Moroccoimpasse, • ,-" J s .colleagues of the Rouvier .Cabinet, considered M. DelcasseV position untenable; The Premier (M.; Jlouvier) liimsolf took the 1 portlobo ot Foreign Affairs, and 'The" Times" commented that M. Rouvier would be in a better position to deal with Morocco, "simply because he is not M. Delcasse/' At the same the | great rival, diplomatist in Germany, Count von <Bulow, was raised to the dignity of fv -. | , as now, M. Delcasse;.fell out .totli the . Socialists; The principal cause; was lus fidelity; to the alliance with Russia;and Russia s feat by Japan was seized on by mon wno had already had more than enough of .rsardom.. Though so strong a Foreign Minister, .M. Delcasse wa<? yet deemed by lmnftrtial critics a lover of peace. He was the ciiicf architect of tho Angle-French entente-cordiale, and.; the initiator o* the series of arbitration treaties which 'now bind so many ; civilised Powers. Though a' cool administrator/. he', is,, on- occasions, eiiiotioual. ". j ' tit "■ ■ The present situation, with ' a .Holy ■'Yf ar looming in Morocco' and with anl>mihtarjsm festering in Franco, finds him still, as-of okl, defending, a, stiDng foreign policy against, the ''hesitations and ( .timidities" which still prevail, Algeciras notwithstanding. - : .