Note 234 — Chapter V

On that meeting see Lee, II, 130 f.; Lascelles to Lansdowne, Aug. 25, 1901, B.D., I, 259, No. 323; Lascelles to Lansdowne, Aug. 23, 1901, ibid., II, 73, No. 90; memo. by William II, Aug. 23, 1901, G.P., XVII, 94 ff., No. 5023. For the meeting Lansdowne gave to King Edward a memorandum on the questions which might be brought up. “With regard to Morocco,” he wrote, “the policy of the German and British Governments would appear to be identical. Both desire the maintenance of the status quo, and both would probably resent any indignity offered to the Moorish Envoy who lately visited, and was received with honours at the German and British Courts” (ibid., 124, No. 5033). By mistake King Edward gave a copy of this memorandum to the Emperor, whose government responded with a similar communication to the British government. The statement about Morocco was as follows: “In Morocco we follow a policy of reserve. The Morocco question by itself is not sufficiently important for us to justify a policy by which Germany might incur the risk of serious international complications” (ibid., 129, No. 5025, Anlage).