Note 302 — Chapter VI

Spring Rice to Ferguson, Feb. 4, 1904, Spring Rice to Roosevelt (no date given, though written in Feb. or March, 1904), Gwynn, I, 392 ff.; Sternburg to F. O., March 21, 1904, G.P., XIX, 112, No. 5992. See also the dispatch from Alvensleben to Bülow, Dec. 20, 1903, ibid., 18, No. 5929. Sir Charles Dilke summed up the danger of the situation as follows: “If Germany were to declare war on Japan, Great Britain would be forced by her treaty engagement to declare war on Russia and Germany; and France, it is understood, to declare war upon Great Britain and Japan” (Dilke, “The War in the Far East,” North American Review, April, 1904, quoted in Dennett, p. 94).