New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-21
WILFRED BLUNT DEFENDED.
Frolisbman Recalls Goodness Due to Cyprus
Affair.

To the Editor of The Tribune. $500 a., .srhs
Ct. In an editorial paragraph puonsheo ~
Evening Post" on Tuesday. August 10 49, I-.s
EXPRESSED as TO the authenticity OF "41-- - -
story in his recently published SeCFe1 Ns,cr
49, r,rglsh Occupation OF Egypt, or the oEe0-
:. ,oItb Of lord Beaconsheld and LORD sa4lSOut'
IN declaring at the outset OF the beIIn NOi7 -
Of 1873 that their government was Oou-io - -.
cret agreement. although at the unle - -
i,et concluded secret convention Win inc o----
- .,a o,,-rander OF the island OF Cyprus to Eng
Iand Blunt attributes their failure TO refuse -
nledge themselves to the fact that oo1h "e47 -
10 diplomacy. The secret treaty OF CS'ius
NAV bs remembered, prematurey o4scIoSeu
through the dishonesty OF a temporary cIerA anu
translator OF the Foreign Once VINO. having 49,
engaged TO transcribe and translate the docuI.eHr
soId a conv OF II to a London newspaper. D4u4ie
states that when our two pleniPotenllaIAeS 80
Themselves confronted with the unexplainaoIe iaCI
that they had perpetrated gross breach OF hA4I.
-, tbetr F,,roDean colleagues. and stood conVlcteu
of nothing less than direct and recorded Ne' tiie
treachery promised TO break up the cohIeFeiiCe'
n COMPROMISE being effected by Prince BlsrharCA-
The editorial of The POST states that MY Blunt
brings forward no documentary evidence III sup
port Of his assertions. and that there Is VIZ
iroDrobabillty about the whole story In conneC-
ton with this I may that was In Farls GUS
the greater part OF that year Oo'S' 3-G ~,
brought much into contact with the tAeh A4A-
~ wales. now King Edward He had left Paris
y.
will on the part of the government and OF the peo-
nile who rightly ascribed to him much OF the sue
cess o- the great International exhibition cf that
wear on the banks Of the Seine the first hed since
the establishment Of the present republic "heh
bA returned later after the Cyprus treaty episodo
had become known. he found public sentiment was
entirely changed. Goodness, and even resentment
had taken the place OF friendliness and while inc
prince himself was consttutionally debarred from
any official utterance about the matter MS tFeiuS
became busy at once in explaining that ne hdu
been entirely ignorant that any sucn thlng aS 'ie
Cyprus convention was contemplated untH II was
revealed In the London newspapers. and that he
b,+terv condemned and strongly disapproved OF the
entire affair declaring what has since been proved
70 be the case, that the strategical and economic
vaIue OF the island was of no account when COM
pared with the luminosity which its questohaoie
ACQUISITION by England had excited among IOrelSh
nations Certain leading French statesmen re-
caved Drivate assurances OF the princes entire IN
nocence Of this breach OF faith, which France felt
more keenIy than perhaps any other power and
NAV add that was the means of conveying them
20 ar Ieas. one of the most powerful Frenchmen
of the dav That these assurances entirely ex-
dressed the Princes views I can vouch for. and
can recall the extremely vigorous and altogether
Georgian language and anger with which ne de-
nounced what he described as not merely terri
HE betise but as an almost criminal act OF folly
Nan, work. August IS 1901 ENGLISHMAN-