Note 607 — Chapter XII
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Delcassé instructed the Minister to make the following statement to the Sultan: “We cannot conceive that, changing from the way of accords which he [the Sultan] has followed for several years, he will decide to assume an attitude which will oblige us to consider strict right alone as the basis of our relation with him” (Delcassé to Saint-René Taillandier, April 9, 1905, ibid., 208, No. 239).