Note 703 — Chapter XII

Lansdowne added: “I had heard fears expressed that, in order to put an end to a state of things which could not fail to be highly inconvenient to them, the French Government might be induced to purchase the acquiescence of Germany by concessions of a kind which we were not likely to regard with favour, in other parts of the world. I had myself no such misgivings, and felt convinced that each side might continue to rely upon being treated with absolute frankness by the other. His Excellency [M. Cambon] expressed his entire concurrence in what I had said.” See Lansdowne to Bertie, May 17, 1905, B.D., III, 76, No. 94; Spender, II, 248; Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, III, 342 f.