Note 386 — Chapter VIII

On this episode see the various dispatches in L.j., 1901-5, 135 ff., Nos. 160 ff. On Raisouli see Rosita Forbes, El Raisuni, the Sultan of the Mountains (London, 1924). On June 22, 1904, Secretary of State Hay cabled to the American Consul at Tangier, “We want Perdicaris alive or Raizuli dead.” See William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay (Boston and New York, 1915), II, 383; Dennis, Adventures in American Diplomacy, pp. 443 ff. Both the British and the American governments requested the good offices of the French government in effecting the release. Mr. Hay, the American secretary of state, gave assurance that if more serious action were subsequently necessary in Morocco, it would not take place “without a previous exchange of views” with France. Thus he acknowledged France’s special position with reference to that country. See Saint-René Taillandier to Delcassé, May 30, 1904, ibid., 137, No. 163; Delcassé to Saint-René Taillandier, May 31, 1904, ibid., 137, No. 164; Jusserand to Delcassé, June 20, 1904, ibid., 152, No. 171; Porter to Delcassé, June 27, 1904, ibid., 155, No. 176; Mévil, pp. 172 f.