Note 259 — Chapter VI
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Lee, II; Newton, pp. 292 f. Early in 1915 Balfour wrote to Lansdowne denying that King Edward was the author of the Entente Cordiale. “Now, so far as I remember, during the years which you and I were his Ministers, he [King Edward] never made an important suggestion of any sort on large questions of policy” (Newton, p. 293). This estimate may be true, but it does not give the King credit for what he actually did.