Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-23

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Baron Grendi, in February, 1905,
wrote as Follows:
The real reason for England,s
hatred Of Germany Is the envy which
has been called into being BY the de-
tyelopment of the German navy, Ger
man commerce. and German industry
Two years later he writes:
The French encroacffnents have
Icnce more assumed the same proper.
Etions as those that prevailed during
/ the worst days of the Second empire.
land the Entente Cordiale Is to be
blamed for this. These presumptions
have even perceptibly Increased since
Ii has become plain that the negotia.
tons between London and st. Peters.
burg to which France undoubtedly
has been a party. might lead to an
entente. =
In another place he states:
sThe policy carried out by King
Edward under the pretense of saving
Europe from an imaginary danger,
has evoked French peril only too
real which is primarily ininlical to
u.s.
Count Lalaing. the Belgian minister
IN London, declared on May Path,
1907: -
1T is clear that official England Is
pursuing secret policy hostile to
Germany. the purpose Of which Is 80
latf6n. but there IS no doubt that it Is
very dangerous to poison public opin-
ion IN the way this is being done by
the irresponsible press
The Belgian Charge d'Affaires In
Lendon, Mr. Cartier. in March. 1907,
wrote:
Since the Conduct Of Russian for
eign affairs has been left to lswolski,
remarkable rapprDchement has tax
en- place between the cabinets of Lon
don and ST. Petersburg The incident
of the Dogger Bank, the English SYM
pathy for Japan in 1894, the eibit-
tered rivalry in Persia, all that be-
longs to the past The entire force Of
English diplomacytis directed towards
the isolation Of Germany
Finally, Baron Guillaume, the Bel
gian Minister in Paris. writes on the
9th of January, 1914:
II have already had the honor to
report that it was NM Poincare, Del
casse, Millerand and their friends who
invented that nationaIistic, nilitaris-
tic, ci1auvfnfstic policy and followed
Il. We have now confirmed revival
of this policy, which constitutes a
danger for Europe and for Beigium!"
Gentlemen, these reports of the Bel
gian diplomats coincide thoroughly in
all the main particulars and give q
clear picture of the policy of the En-
tente during the last ten years. In
the face OF such witnesses, all the at
tempts made by our opponents to as
cribe to us the lust for war and to
themselves the love of peace, are rem
dered null and void Gentlemen, was
German rolicy uniformed of these
happenings or did 1t purposely close
its eyes, In that it again and again
endeavored to find a way out of the
difficulty? Neither the one nor the
other. | am well aware that there
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