Note 494 — BOOK VIII THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS (continued 6)

Wilfred Scawen Blunt regards the English remaining in Egypt, when they had pledged themselves to go, as the greatest cause of the troubles that culminated in 1914. To pacify the French over Egypt, England connived at the French occupation of Morocco, which Germany had looked upon as her share of North Africa. Hence Germany’s bristling attitude to France, and the revival in France of the revanche idea, which had died down. See Blunt’s My Diaries, vol. i, September 30th, 1891.—A. C. W.