Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-30
By ARTHUR THOMSON


Inevitable War" between the king,
Delcasse, Nernes and few others, his
tory alone will tell. One fact is certain:
two days after the departure of the
king for London, the financial agencies
announced that the Franco German syn.
dicate had been dissolved. One year
later the entente cordiale was concluded
with England The Franco-German
syndicate was a financial arrangement
made in 1902 between French and Ger
man bankers in order to furnish capi-
tai for the German owned Bagdad rail
way, project that England looked upon
with anything but favor, since its com
pletion meant that Germany could
threaten the Suez canal and Egypt, and
possibly India.
Francis Delaisi says: In return for
giving up the financial control of Egypt
and to reimburse our (French) capital
lists for the loss of share in the Bag
dad project the London cabinet made us
a present of Morocco. And they gave
it all the more willingly since it did not
belong to them By a secret agree
ment between the English foreign office
and France and Spain, Morocco was to
be divided and put under control of
France and Spain. This arrangement
was made by the diplomatists of the
i4llSllSl anu IItlltH IOltlSll OlllN Will
out the knowledge of parliament or the
people OF any OF the countries directly
concerned, excepting OF course the finan-
cial powers, which are always on the
ground floor"
To Isolate Germany.
As a result of this scheme to bring
Morocco under French rule, Germany and
France came close to war in 1905, the
incident being known as Delcasse's coup.
Delcasse was foreign minister OF France
As soon as he became allied with Ed
ward VII and England's foreign office
he, without informing any of his French
colleagues, set about intriguing and ne
| gotiating towards furthering the plan of
| isolating Germany. To use the words
| of Francis Delaisi. he endeavored to
| detach Italy from the triple alliance. ne
| gotiated with st. Petersburg. intrigued
at Constantinopie. and planned that
Germany after having been encircled
should be crushed by England with the
help OF France" And then came the
Moroccan affair in 1905 which brought
France and Germany to the verge OF
war, and which brought about the re-
moval of Delcasse from the French for
egn office.
Ever since the Anglo French agree.
ment was signed April 6, 1904 the for,
eign office of England has schcmed and
intrigued against Germany, Sir Edward
Grey, foreign minister since the Liberal
party got control of the government
never resting in the furtherance OF the
plan of isolation. And it is due to this
policy OF isolating Germany that the
feverish military and naval preparations
were made by the European powers. and
which ended in the present war
Belgium and Luxembourg.
More than once was the inevitable
war" on the point of flaring forth. II
1911 there was second Moroccan trou
BILE, known as the Agadir crisis. What
excuse the English government woulc
have offered their public is hard to say
Perhaps the old standbys, honor, nationa
defense. etc, would have been worked e
the limit, and the masses been rallied
by martial music and a deceiving press
to enlist to save the empire. There
would have been no Belgium to fall baci
upon as at present The violation o.
Belgian neutrality! II is a queer thing
that Britain did not utter word o.
protest when Germany sent her troops
thru the state of Luxembourg, seeing
that she is the guardian of information
al scraps of paper" No, Luxembourg
did not serve Britain's purpose.
Here is what the London Times, "tha
mirror of foreign office reflections" ha
to say about the violation of Belgian
neutrality, this having appeared in tn,
issue of March 8, 1915: There ar
still, it seems, some Englishmen ant
Englishwomen who greatly err as e
reasons that have forced England e
draw the sword. They know that it wa
Germany's flagrant violation of Belgian
neutrality which filled the cup of he
Indignation and made her people insis