The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30
BERLIN COMMITTED SERIOUS BLUNDER Government Overstepped
 Self in Morocco NOW SEES MISTAKE Has Lost Confidence of Other Powers by Ignoring the Provisions
 of the Algeciras
 Convention
By FREDERICK WERNER

tical affairs for some time-for never have they been so completely beaten as when they tried to make capital in Mo rocco out of Frances temporary diff culties at home.
 There is no doubt that Herr voD Kridderlen- -Waechter designed a great and carefully planned coup by sending first the warship Panther and then the Berlin to Agadir.
 Germany had visions of obtaining from France, as the price of ab bandoning Agadir, some territorial or other advan- tages. I do not know whether she will gain these-but I do know that she has lost something at least as important as anything she may gain. She has lost the small remaining fragment of sym psthy which she still could boast of in Europe. From that point of view the people of France may congratulate themselves on the terrible blunder which tn ese psuedo Bismarks have committed in the Agadir matter The Berlin government has shown yet once again that neither solemn signatures nor international lgood faith can restrain 1t when it thinks that the right moment has come for playing a low-'tricl on the person who
 
 is least expecting it.
 By his visit to London, by his protes- tations of family sentiment, Emperor William thought that he had lulled to sleep the watchfulness of England: es- pecially as she appeared to be in the throes of a constitutional crisis, whose importance Is greatly exaggerat ted abroad
 Moreover. the Liberal govern ment ap- peared to him to have Germanophile tendencies, and so he risked the Asadr coup. He would install himself there without any pretext of a misunderstood ing with France--he would remain there as long as negotiations lasted, and he would protract these negotiations indefi- nitely. So reasoned the German dipo- mat.
 He thought, perhaps, that he would thus forestall a body-blow from France, already sick of being annoyed by Ger many. But not one single thing of those so confidently anticipated by the sages of Berlin has come to pass. France remained calm and indifferent and not even flinched under the storm of insinuatons and abuse which have been leveled at her in the. German press. England merely gave a cool intimation of ''hands off" to the German govevn- ment. Russia sleeps calmly at her allys side.
 Al IOullu It tlfl1S tO say a word in support of her interests, if the treaty of Algercrias were to be torn up, and in any case she evinced no dis- position to follow calmly in the wake of the Berlin mountebanks.s
 Italy is hestating waiting until her dawning convictions compel her to join forces with the majority, into which she will be drawn from one side or the other.
 In short, the people of France have no to AOpdir de Kidderlen- Waechter It awakened England; it demonstrated to the world at large that Prussia is the ever present menace to the tranquility of the people. It proved that French nerves can stand shock, even when that shock comes from Berlin. It defined precisely the line of demareation which Count Aehren- thai intends to establish between the pro- cedure, and the means employed by the big-wigs of Berlin and those of which the Austrian foreign office intends to avail itself in safeguarding it's own inter- ests and the peace of Europe.
 In the heated discussions of the mo- ment the slow but sure awakening of the political pride in Austria Hungary deserves
 Count Aerenthal' is a diplomat of an- other school than that of the aspirants of Berlin, who are playing at being Bis markians bandits. He proceeds silently. he does not thrust himself forward, but his pronouncement on the Agadir coup was pregnant with consequence.
 The French government has been re- preached for having been lacking in en- ergy, both in words and deeds.
 do not subcribe to that opinion. The Germans were left to stew in their own juice at Agadir. They are still regret ting that they ever went there. France put this question to. them: "what do you want?' They did not know what to re- ply, for the reply which they would like to make was strangled in their threats: strangled when the English foreign of flee showed that it was far from blind to the motives which induced the Kaiser to go to Agadir. s
 But I forsee yet another result of the childish game of German diplomacy in Morocco. Everyone Knows that the Ger man nation Is in no mood for difficult ties caused by Or relative to Morocco which, as matter of fact has no inter- est for them. -
 The German cabinet planned and car- ried out the Agadn coup without refer- ring the matter to its allies. Did fl take the German princes into It's ,confi- dence? Did it inform the. Rundersrat in which the ministers or their deputies sit? N
 
 up this question: and you will see that ii will give rise to a good deal of discussion in Germany
 In the very midst of the. din of the Morocco affair. the new French cabinet Caillaux had its first skHrnish with the ever unrulv and capricious chamber of deputies. One of the votes taken went against the, new government, and &C., cording to the rules of the political poker game as played in France, M. Caillaux should have resigned. He demanded to be given free hands for tho debate on the it's ugly yellow fangs and rejected the minister's proposal. Had M. Caillaux shown less common sense and resigned, those who had brought about his fall would have been condemned by the whole nation, but a loop-hole was found and the very next day very docile and cowed chamber gave him splendid vote of confidence. Simultaneously the sen- ate finished its debate on the budget, and fin few days M. Caillaux will be able tc feel safe in his seat at least until the French parliament meets again after its summer vacation.
 If the Agadir incident had not come and temporarily overshadowed every thing else, the eyes of the Europe would surely have been turned towards the Bal kans. Here it was old king Nicholas of Montenegro who supplied the. sensation, when he called the whole corps diplo- matiuue together at the little palace at Cetinje and told the ambassador that h