Note 1030 — Chapter XVI

Grey stated to the Spanish Ambassador, Jan. 3, 1906, as follows: “All the four Powers most directly interested in the Mediterranean had made arrangements with each other which were satisfactory to themselves and it was most undesirable that they should allow these arrangements to be disturbed” (Grey to Nicolson, Jan. 10, 1906, ibid., 215, No. 234). On this Spanish affair see also Grey to Bertie, Dec. 20, 1905, ibid., 160, No. 197; Grey to Nicolson, Dec. 14, 20, 21, 1905, ibid., 151, No. 193; 161 f., Nos. 199 ff.; Nicolson to Grey, Dec. 22, 25, 27, 1905, Jan. 5 and 9, 1906, ibid., 163, No. 202; 165, No. 205; 167, No. 208; 208 f., No. 227; 212, No. 231; Bertie to Grey, Dec. 22, 1905, ibid., 163 ff., No. 204.