Note 462 — Chapter IX

The Emperor thought of buying Fernando Po, but said nothing of this to the King. On this incident and the Emperor’s attitude toward Morocco see his minutes to Radolin to Bülow, Oct. 20, 1903, ibid., XVII, 362, No. 5206; William II to Bülow, March 16, 1904; ibid., 363, No. 5208; Radowitz to Richthofen, March 23, 1904, ibid., 364, No. 5209; Radolin to Bülow, March 30, 1904, ibid., 365, No. 5210. On Oct. 20, 1903, Radolin had reported from Paris a conversation with the Spanish Ambassador in which the latter, after admitting that France and Spain were well on the way toward an accord over Morocco, remarked to him, “I suppose that you have nothing to object to our entente.” Radolin replied, “We have only commercial interests in those parts, which, however, are of very great importance and which we must safeguard” (Radolin to Bülow, Oct. 20, 1903, ibid., 361 f., No. 5206).