Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-25
RELATIONS OF SPAIN and FRANCE

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nominal chief
Certain journals of Madrid discuss in
this moment the real object of the kings
visit. which they affirm Ii none other
than a treaty with France. In this con-
nection they recall that i'm 1907 NJ. Pr
chon signed with Spain a protocol which.
at the same time. was doubled by another
with England. protocol Anglo spanish.
relative To the possessions in the occi-
dental Mediterranean and the oriental At
lantic II is certain that IL would be more
advantageous for these three powers 10
form a more solid arrangement from the
point of view OF military and naval
arrangement The Correspondence de Es-
pagna declares that all Spain desires such
an entente. La Correspondence Miiiar
writes I'm brief that Alfonso XIII Will
represent in France the sentiments OF all
Spain. There should be an alliance ar
case OF conflict The cooperation Of a
Hispano- French army In Morocco Is Nee
essary. and from this there would follow
a vigorous alliance.
The first visit of King Alfonso in 1905
followed the signature OF the Moroccan
agreement i'm 1904. and
Results of which occurred in the
C;r.+ v;s;t diplomatic crisis when N.
'AsAs' Delcasse fell The results
of the first visit were the signature Of
the supplementary Moroccan convention
of 1905: SPANS friendly role at Alge-
ciras; the Anglo Spanish interview at
Carthagena. and the agreement of 1907
on the status quo in the Mediterranean
and the Atlantic.
Since 1907 the entente they inaugurated
has been compromised by the riyalres IN
Morocco. which have been terminated by
the treaty of November. 1872.
The presence at Madrid of Sig. Iuc-
ciardi, director of Italian commerce. with
the manifest object of negotiating a COM
mercial entente. has created much inter-
est I'm diplomatic circles. A recent dis
patch corroberates the action OF the two
governments. The Marquis de San
Giuliano. minister of foreign affairs and
the Spanish ambassador signed an. agree
ment. the main points of which are these:
The two governments expressed their
mutual intention to raise no objections or
obstacles to measures which Italy has
adopted In Lydia and which Spain has
adopted I'm her zone of influence In
Morocco.
Also the two governments agree that
the conditions of the Franco-1talian
agreement signed at Paris the 2st1i oc-
tober, 1872, are likewise assured 10 Italy
I'm the Spanish zone OF influence in
Morocco and to Spain i'm Lydia; that the
same conditions should be accorded rec.p-
rocally to products and enterprises Of
the two nations.
According TO an inquiry made by the
journal the Mundo on the subject NJ
SPANS political preferences such as the
following were interrogated: Gabriel
Maura and Bessada. conservatives Al
varez and Azcarate. republicans. Cambo.
catalanist, and de Mella, carlist Alone
Of these Senior Vasquez de Mella dee
clared himself I'm favor of seeking Ger
man friendship. De Mella hates England
and English influence, following i'm this
the tradition Of his party. All the others
consulted favored neutrality. simple
entente or an intimate union. il Spain
should decide to take sides with the triple
entente.
~ !.
NJ. Gabriel Hanotaux. former French
minister of foreign affairs, has always
been champion OF
Champion Of Spain in. the sense Of
81: advocating an intimate
SP@AA' Franco-Spanish union. He
declares that Spain, which is isolated
from the rest of the continental world
by French territory, may not maintain
her intellectual, moral, political and
economical communications except
through French territory: Spain 10
guarded by French territory as by .
boulevard And he adds that IF the
entente with France is completed by an
entente with England. Spain is in
vulnerable. Thus the future attaches
itself to the past, and now, i'm place
Of causing a rupture. the Moroccan
discussion has resulted in welding OF
Morocco and a French Morocco the two
make but one.
NJ Hanotaux, il will be recalled. Was
the chief of the recent mission Sent 10y
la
States and to Canada in 1917 To ceie-
brate the achievements of Champlain.
Referring to the Franco-English con-
france left Canada she left there 56.ooV
french Their descendants now num-
bered three and half millions. Ihese'
Joined to six million Canadian Emssi ~
once an example and a lesson
A like situation may be createa ny
France and Spain in Morocco. @
CO mo regions were converted into prov
inces by ancient Rome in less thah wv. W..
centuries Rome built magnificen, CITIES
in Africa II the same metnoas AM AM
d;-cinlfne were employed-'Latin niS-
ciniine"-the same results could DE oo-
tanned.
,rbese two Latin countries had need OF
each other I'm Morocco. The European
consolidation would he the
Mutual corollary of an African
laboration France, as recent
Nee0. " declared by NJ. Edmond
Rostrand i'm a remarkable improAiseu
sneech. had often revealed other peoples
70 themselves. Spain had played hke
role Had not the Spanish race discovered
and colonized America? SPANS instincts
and actions had been superb.
The ex-minister of French foreign IA
fairs does not like the tone of superiority
which some of his comratrlots assume
toward Spain. He is severe upon Tue
Hardness of French republicans III Tecos
nizing the situation, and who repeat the
phrase of Louis XIV, There Is no ionse,
Pyrenees." Yet the Pyrenees exist All
the same Nature mad raised UP tllal
chain of mountains at the same tie
that she had separated Spain from Al
RIGA by the straits of Gibraltar, constitute
ing thus at one stroke SPAN a Europea.i
state and a peninsula. History could hot
do else than conform TO the notions VI
nature.
France and Spain, two perfectly con-
stituted nations. well dellmited. nave
lived side by side. each living It's OWN
proper life, because each Tor 1act Is
perfect modern nation.
Every time one of these nations tres
passed upon the others national dlRnty
1t asserted itself, and the two momeh
tary adversares between the clash 81
arms have learned TO know and appre-
ciate each other.
Alfonso's visit to Paris is an echo
t.ah han