The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-08-18

n lety among the diplomats or
England, France and Ger
many, Is more or less Of an old, old
story. Morocco has been cause for
worry among the great European pow
ers for great many years, and the
prospects are that, no matter what the
outcome OF the present angle Of the
controversy, there will be Moroccan
question for years TO come.
In the news dispatches the latest
situation is termed acute" which
may mean much or little Diplomatic
conferences are secret. and Just when
the world looks for declaration Of
war some corner is turned and the
trouble smoothed over.
In the gradual partition Of Africa
among the peoples of Europe that has
been going on during the last fifty or
sixty years 1t was inevitable that the
turn Of Morocco should come at no
very distant day For the peace Of
the world it would undoubtedly have
been best IL Morocco could haze held
IFS own and have transformed itself
into some semblance of modernized
state, Unfortunately no such develop
ment has been apparent,
The failure OF Morocco to move for
ward of its own accord made ii nat
ural prey TO one or other Of the great
European colonizing powers Engand's
commercial interests In the country
have always been great, and under
the kaid Sir Harry Maclean her no,
litical fortunes there seemed to IRE
sage further extension Of British
influence In the Mediterranean. But
another powerful claimant was on
hand; France and her position as a
nelghbor to Morocco made her claim
In every sense n valid one The rival
ry of these two powers In Morocco
threatened to become acute. but Egypt
was ON Great Britain's hands. There.
too. France was the great competitor
of England and to the consolidation
of English influence. TO be free OF
this incubus was an absolute necessity.
The treaty Of 1904. including, as it did,
reciprocal self denying clauses-for
France in Egypt and for England in
Morocco-paved the way for the lay
Ing of the old conflict between the
two countries France now believed
that she had free hand in Morocco.
Frances Lost Opportunity.
An energetic forward policy would
perhaps have won the day, and France
would have been able to found n large
colonial empire covering the whole Of
the northwestern part OF Africa from
Tunis up TO the Atlantic ocean But
conditions famed the prowess
OF her foreign policy. There was NJ
Jean jaures, the Socialist, and the
pacifists to he reckoned with, and in
order to calm their oversensitve sus.
capabilities a new method called
pacific penetration" economic and
cultural, was adopted. NJ. Delcasse
hadTeckoned without his host. That
most 'WaSbGermany.
Germany soon saw the possibilities
ofsMorocco. mot only because of its
Inherent riches, but also because Of it's
politicaltworth, and Its evident inability
tosstandAupoHGts own legs. One has
stilWfather4fDeSivld remembrance of
Observation-Disclosures of the kaiser upon
ifSthe year 1905. Tue result
Of this intervention was the confer
ence at Algeciras in the spring Of.
1906.
1t has been held that the TACT which
resulted from this conference was in
large measure diplomatic check upon
German aspirations, as 1t placed the
of the Moroccan police I'M
der Spanish and French military OFF
GERS. However, although she did not
succeed in breaking through the
Anglo French entente cordiale ur IN
cutting into the Hispano Frennh un
Germany was successful
In making her voice heard and in as
sorting her right to be consulted in all
great world problems that come up
for discussion and in which European
interests are at stake. And she drew
a cord across the French path in Mo
rocco. to-r"
Germany Steps In
That Germany had been successful