The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-18


Before 1904 Britain and France
had been over a long series of years
embittered by quarrels precipitated
by the energy of their colonial
agents and the clash of their colo
rial aspirations. Slam. West Africa
Morocco. but. above all, Fashoda,
had disturbed the peace and the
pleasant relations existing between
the two nations which are divided
only by the narrow Straits OF Dover.
The press Of the world had begun to
talk Of yet another Anglo-French
war.
Instead, in 1904 we had a general
agreement covering a whole variety
Of matters at issue, an entente
which amounted in fact to the rec
ognltion on the part of each of the
Countries concerned of certain vital
interests of the other and a further
agreement on the part of each to
sacrifice material claims and inter
tsts TO the cause of peace and good
relations.
What Saved Europe.
Thus was constructed that Anglo
4 British entente, which became
| within brief time one of the most
important factoIs in European his
tory and a decade after II was ar
lahged saved Europe from the Ger
man assault. The entente was never
alliance. 1t was not in any
sehse the commitment OF Great
Britain to defend France or France
TO defend Great Britain. 1t was. in
reality, the agreement between
France and Great Britain that each
would refrain from attacking the
olher and 1t was accompanied by a
,f
rels which had made attacks seem
possible.
Now. In the larger sense, IL
seems TO be that the Washington
agreement, affecting, 10 b. sure.
only the Islands OF the Pacific.
must bc regarded as real and
perhaps q conscious imitation OF
thc Anglo-ErenCh entente. not as
developed between 1904 and
WA, but as IL was conceived and
created in 1904. Two grent ma
tlons were then drifting patiently
ana rapidly toward war which
was abhorrcnt alike to the states
men and 10 the people of each.
Somcthing had to be done. and
uohe quickly. II war were to be
avoided. What was done was the
'oriation OF the famous entente.
~ one look at the American
Japanese situation which has in
ipsoent paal years been developing in the
acitlc' II is plain that, while the
real quarrels have been few and the
ua'lon has never remotely sug-
tEsa'ed the tension existing between
saahSe and Britain half a genera
SSOn ago, none the less there has
v oevh constantly growing danger OF
nnSlon Eeen by an ever-increasing
Wuer Oh statesmen and publicists.
tIeoFef, II collision were TO result,
"as pain from the beginning that
beIHer britain nor France, since
r,s" had great interests in the Pa
could escape ENHANCEMENT.
,r.attSuaiiy then, the four-party
my winch has been made by the
enl s,,sol conference has its historical
,s,uents ,sn,o IN the Anglo French en-
dAs,eot d OF 1904, More than this. It is
dgssneSa TO cover situation which
wbjcb only IN degree from that
K,stn followed the collision OF
sboSsnerer and Marchand in Fa-
bS "a. happily, in the relations of
ba,. oh'ed States and Japan we
isme. e mad nothing suggesting the
is,s5g bad feeling which ex-
Frsn,nn VI the case of Britain and
4 gams az bottom the facts are the
dsss. The British people did not
Feno. 20 fight the French. the
Rri,on mad no desire TO fight the
cel",Sl Two civilized nations, per
unsnis that despite their almost
lera,inous lero,nious will for peace, war was
green ls imminent, sat down at a
inaie ,au.e and proceeded to elm
causes o, ~ 10y py point all the possible