Note 1241 — Chapter XVIII
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The German instructions to Radolin used detente. Bourgeois used rapprochement in his memorandum of the conversation with the German Ambassador. In talking to Grey, Cambon spoke of entente. There may have been point to this change, for Grey, who was sensitive about Anglo-French relations, immediately assured the French that Anglo-German relations were not and would not become too intimate, and that an entente did not exist. See Grey to Bertie, July 9, 1906, ibid., III, 361 f., No. 420; Bertie to Grey, July 12, 1906, ibid., 362 f., No. 421; Mühlberg to Radolin, June 27, 1906, G.P., XXI, 438, No. 7187; Tschirschky to Metternich, July 7, 1906, ibid., 438 f., No. 7188.