The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-07
STRONG WARNING TO FRANCE
AMBASSADOR Monsoon TRIES SOME
OF THE NEW DIPLOMACY.
In q Public speech in Paris He Cau-
lions the French Press and Peo-
pie Against Their Policy of Pet

banquet of the British chamber Of COM
merce here this evening, the anbas-
sador. Sir Edmund Monson. referring 10
The new Diplomacy which is said 10 have
come into fashion during the past year.
said il was chiefly due TO the enterprise OF
the press. but also il was in a measure due
TO mother country innovations and the or
iginality OF the mind ever restleSsy watch
ing 20 iulprovlse everything, which will
perhaps end by wipIng the diplomats OF the
old school OF the face OF the earth. He
added:
u am quite ready 10 acknowledge that
there Is much good IN the particular inno-
walton occurring in my mind at the pres
ent moment America has invariably sent
10 England the finest representatives of
her intelligence and culture and | think we
may attribute in no little degree the happy
development OF the friendly feeling be
tween Great Britain and the UnAted States
10 the manner in which those representa-
dives performed their tasks. especially in
their public utteranceS on both sides OF the
Atlantic. l wish / possessed the faculty
pirate language which distinguished Col.
Hay, the late Thongs Rayard and his emil
nent predecessors al the court Of St
James. Such oratorical gifts ] have not.
But L feel the strongest desire 10 say
few words which may work toward the
END for which a British ambassador is sent
abroad. Ii has not been without much
reflection and anxiety that | decided 10
depart on this occasion from the tradt-
tional limits by which diplomatst is ham
pered'
Sir Edmund then proceeded TO dlate on
the recent remarkable outburst OF public
feeling in Great Britain, provoked by the
Fashoda incident, and said he ventured 10
express the hope that the idea Of Great
Britain being unduly prone 70 make grace
ful but impolitic concessions is thoroughly
exploded.
After referring 10 the mischief often
wrought by reckless Journalism which is
too apt to forget ii can never be so accu-
rateiy informed as the foreign minister, Sir
Edmund enthusiastically referred 10 the Paris
exposition of 1900 which he described
zone Of the mos, significant factors in re-
straining the combative elements now men
acing the peace Of the earth
He appealed to France to dsahuse her
self of all suspicion OF unfair intention
upon the part of Great Britain; to try TO
believe there WAS no general luminosity in
England toward France and to meet Eng
land on every question at Issue with an
honest desire for an equitable arrangement.
He concluded follows:
Il would earnestly ask officials in power
and unofficial opponents Of public opinion
10 discountenance and abstain from con-
t:nuance of the policy of the pin-prieks.
which. while ii can only procure an ephe-
neral satisfaction to short-ilved minis
try, must inevitably perpetuate across the
| channel an intolerable irritation.
II would entreat them 10 resist the temp
| tation TO thwart British enterprise by petty
| maneuVers such the proposal 10 start
colleges as rivals OF Gen. kitchener's pro-
| jected Institution in the reconquered Sou
dan. Such ill-clad provocation might have
| the effect of converting Great Britain's
policy of forbearance in Egypt into the
| adoption of measures at which l presume
| French sentiment = not aiming"
| Causes n Sensation in London.
| LONDON, Dec. 7.-Sir Edmund Monson's
| remarkable speech in Paris last evening
| has created a sensation here Most of the
| cret.on. pointing out that the American am
bassadors he referred to- despite their lean
| ngs to the new diplomacy. would never
| have addressed such a warning TO Great
| Britain.
The Times which is almost alone in ex-
| pressing approval of Sir Edmund Nonson' )
| utterances. goes so far as TO regret that
| he did not add TO his excellent speech an
| explicit statement of the fact that the
| principle OF the Fashoda expedition will
| govern Bahr- El-Ghazal basin.
| The Daily News, which puts the matter
| pithily, says:
| Sir Edmund Monson's speech was either
| a great indiscretion or a deliberate move
! in the diplomatic game. If ii was the for
mer. the situation will become graver If
| it was the latter. the situation is already
| graver than Il seems"
| There is little doubt that the speech will
he deeply resented in France. especially as
| it was evidently carefully prepared and
| was read In the delivery.
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