Note 603 — Chapter XII

Mévil, De la Paix de Francfort, etc., pp. 206 f., 231; Imperial Foreign Office, Reports of the Belgian Representatives in Berlin, London, and Paris to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Brussels, 1905-1914. European Politics during the Decade before the War as Described by the Belgian Diplomatists (. . . ., 1915), No. 3 (hereafter cited as Belg. Docs., 1905-1914); Quest. dipl. et col., XIX, 517; Henry Wickham Steed, Through Thirty Years, 1892-1922: A Personal Narrative (London, 1924), I, 229. Delcassé also made strenuous efforts during the succeeding weeks to mediate peace between Japan and Russia so that the latter Power could resume its obligations as France’s ally. See Radolin to F. O., April 27, 1905, G.P., XX, 345, No. 6635; Lansdowne to MacDonald, April 19, 1905, B.D., IV, 76 f., No. 68; Dennett, Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War, pp. 176 f.