LONDON, Dec i, 1911. 

 It is now admitled that this summer 



On the we were on the brink of war with 



Brink ot Wnr— ,, j 1 ^ t r 



and Why ? ticrniany — and wily? It was not for 



the defence of any 

 BritisI) interests, not 

 for the mainten- 

 ance of any trta!\ 

 obligations. W < 

 were nearly in- 

 volved in the 

 stupendous catas- 

 trophe of a gigan- 

 tic war with the 

 greatest of all the 

 world - Powers in 

 order to enable 

 France to tear up 

 the Treaty of Al- 

 gcciras by takir)g 

 jiossession of tiie 

 Knipire of Morocco, 

 whose independ- 

 ence and integrity 

 we were pledged to 

 defend. Itwasnn: 

 to our interest i< 

 make over to 

 France a vast do- 

 minion in Northern 

 Afrii a. 'l"ho Krencli, 

 unlike the (icrmans, 

 who admtr us to 

 trade in all their 

 colonies on eiiuiil 

 fooling with Ger- 

 mnii subjects, have 

 always made it a 



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A New Portrait of Sir Edward Grey. 



principle of their colonial policy to give preference 

 and, wherever possible, a monopoly of the trade to 

 Frenchmen. If we have any security for the open 

 door and equality of opportunity in Morocco we owe 



it to the Germans, 

 who defended our 

 commercial inter- 

 ests in defending 

 their own. Never- 

 theless, the fact 

 remains that in 

 order to put F'rance 

 in possession of 

 Morocco we all but 

 went to war with 

 ( k-rmany. We have 

 esca])ed war, but 

 we have not es- 

 caped the natural 

 and abiding en- 

 mity of the Ger- 

 man people. Is it 

 possible to frame 

 a heavier indict- 

 ment of the foreign 

 policy of any lirit- 

 ish Ministry? 



The Secret 



of 

 the Crime. 



The secret, the 

 open secret of this 

 almost incredible 

 crimeagainst Treaty 

 faith, British inter- 

 ests, and the peace 

 of the world is the 

 unfortunate fact 

 that Sir Edward 



