The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-06
IMPORTANT TRIPLES.
Little Things That Have Caused
World Crises.

The analogy of natural law pre-
walls in the diplomatic world, says
the Manchester Chronicle. AS in the
cyclonic regions of the earth, the
heaviest storms give no warning of
their approach. Unless the on
locker is able to consult barometer,
the storms generally come as bolts
from the blue. Diplomacy, unfortu-
nately, has no barometer.
Repeatedly during the late queens
reign was France threatened by
apparently insignificant causes. In
1914 an obscure squabble in dis
tant island of the Pacific nearly in
volved Great Britain and France in a
war, which would have involved In
turn all Europe. Mr.. Pritchard was
missionary and medical man to
Queen Pomare of Tahiti; he was also
British consult, and when France oc-
cupied the island in accordance with
a treaty, Pritchard persuaded Queen
Pomare to repudiate it and to call on
England to support her.
Thereupon the French arrested the
good man, packed him off to Eng
land, and that is how the trouble be-
gan.
as he had done, and, like Sir AleXan-
der Swettenham in the Kingston af-
fair, exhibited tactlessness. The in
cendiary press of Paris roussed the
country against "perfidious Albion, !"
but the matter was arranged by the
good sense of the French govern
ment, which finally censured Admiral
Dupetit-Thouars, who had impris-
DO ftaIl dp6 nIs
many years after this affair it was
the custom of budding English diplo-
mists to wear on their watch chains
small gold label with the word
"Pritchard' inscribed thereon.
There is no boundary in the world
of greater political Importance than
the 49th parallel, which divides Can
ada from the United States. When
this boundary was under discussion
the Pacific coast was almost inaccess-
ible, and the ownership of Oregon,
now state of vast wealth, with opu-
lent cities and teeming population,
was in the balance. The matter was
settled by the report of Captain Tenn
pie, a brother of Lord Palmerston,
who wrote to the admiralty that the
country was not worth d, be-
cause the salmon would not take a
fly"
When the late Sir Robert Morier
was British ambassador to the car
there were a number of trivial ques-
tions. any one of which might have
developed a hurricane crisis. Before
taking up his post at st. Petersburg,
Sir Robert Morier accidentally met
M. de Giers, the Russian foreign MIN
lister. in Berlin, and the two held a
long and memorable conversation, In
which a compact was arrived at that
in the event of any sudden difficulty
or unforeseen crisis arising each
would seek the other i'll order TO
damp down the fire before 1t mad
spread beyond control.
Not long afterward, when Mon
sieur Pobiendonostzeff, the procura-
tor of the holy synod, was all-poWer-
full in Russian affairs, he and Sir
Robert Morier fell out.
shortly afterward something had
happened in connection with the seal
fisheries on the Pribylof islands. Sew
eral Victorian sealers had been se1zed
| in the North Pacific by Russian
gunboat as being in Russian waters
The Canadian government protest.
ed and controversy ensued. For a
few days the question was burning
one. Pobiendnostzeff' quarrel with
Sir Robert Morier over a trivial mat
ter arising at reception promised TO
develop a serious crisis.
Is was averted by De Giers, VINO
acted loyalty .upto the Berlin under
taking with Sir Robert.
During the Russo-Japanese war
there was time when the balance OF
naval affairs between the combatants
was deemed so equal by the experts
on both sides that the purchase OF a
couple of battleships in seagoing or
der might, and probably would, have
turned the scale.