Note 142 — Chapter IV
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According to an anonymous article, “Quatre ans de politique extérieure,” Revue politique et parlementaire, Oct., 1902, pp. 24 f., 31, on one occasion during the Boer War when a deputy asked Delcassé if he did not think this an opportune time to settle the Moroccan affair with Great Britain, the Minister replied, “How do you wish me to speak with the English Government? It is so occupied that it has no time to reply.”