Note 342 — Chapter VIII
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On Oct. 28, 1904, at the height of the Dogger Bank crisis, Lansdowne reported the following assertion by Cambon: “His Excellency [M. Cambon] said that he did not himself know precisely what obligations France had undertaken in virtue of that understanding [the Dual Alliance]. He did not however believe that if there was a collision, France would join Russia against us, but if a collision occurred, and particularly if it were brought on by unreasonable demands on our part, there would be a revirement of public feeling, and the Anglo-French entente could not fail to suffer” (Lansdowne to Monson, Oct. 28, 1904, B.D., IV, 22, No. 21).