Note 384 — Chapter VIII

Ben Sliman, Moroccan minister of foreign affairs, wrote to Saint-René Taillandier on June 17 as follows: “The Sultan . . . . has instructed me to reply to you that he does not doubt your favorable sentiments nor those of your Government, either the humanity of your actions or the sincerity of your counsels. . . . . Your letter is an argument the more in favor of the reaffirmation of that conviction and a testimony of your good intentions, conforming to the desire of the two countries. This is confirmed also by the conversations which we have had with your secretary to clarify the difficult points of the accord. . . . . I express to you in his [the Sultan’s] name the fullest thanks for your happy efforts past and present which, we hope, will characterize the conduct of our future relations” (ibid., 156 ff., No. 177, annex; Mévil, De la Paix de Francfort, etc. [Paris, 1909], pp. 172 f. n.).