Note 970 — Chapter XVI
Reading edition
On Jan. 8 the government published a Weissbuch on Morocco of thirty-nine pages substantiating the German accusations against the French policy. According to Bülow it was intended to supplement the French Livre jaune (G.P., XXI, 24 n.). Its appearance made a painful impression in France. Rouvier found it “scarcely courteous” and hardly indicative of the conciliatory spirit which Germany professed to have (report from Paris, Jan. 11, 1906, Zur europ. Politik, II, 99 f.). It was well received by the German press (Lascelles to Grey, Jan. 10, 1906, B.D., III, 215 f., No. 235.).