Note 577 — Chapter XI
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The Chancellor declared as follows: “I understand entirely the attention which is given here to the events in and about Morocco. I regard it as a duty of the German Government to see that . . . . our economic interests in Morocco are not injured. But the present moment is unsuitable for further explanations” (Bülow, Reden, II, 186 f.). As a matter of fact, German economic interests ran a very poor third behind those of France and Great Britain (Zeitschrift für Kolonialpolitik, Dec., 1904, pp. 885 ff.).