Note 1085 — Chapter XVII

Bülow to Sternburg, Jan. 20, 1906, G.P., XXI, 99 ff., No. 6956; Tardieu, pp. 160 ff. A proposal similar to No. 1 had been made to Roosevelt by Bülow earlier in January (Bülow to Sternburg, Jan. 6, 1906, G.P., XXI, 54 f., No. 6926). Bülow also offered to support Italy in seeking a general mandate on the police, manifestly in order to create antagonism between Italy and France. The offer was rejected and was soon dropped by Bülow who feared that Italy might later help France penetrate Morocco in return for French aid to Italy in Tripoli. See Bülow to Monts, Jan. 5, 1906, G.P., XXI, 53 f., No. 6925; Bülow to Radowitz, Jan. 26, 1906, ibid., 114 f., No. 6965; Tardieu, pp. 146 f. There is no proof in the published British and German documents of Tardieu’s assertion that in January the German government also offered to support Spain in seeking this general mandate. See ibid., pp. 145, 155 f. Cf. Cartwright to Grey, Jan. 22, 1906, B.D., III, 233, No. 252; Nicolson to Grey, Feb. 6, 1906, ibid., 244, No. 270.