Note 38 — Chapter VIII · GREAT BRITAIN BLOCKS THE WAY

André Tardieu, France and the Alliances (New York, 1908), p. 46. For M. Tardieu’s analysis of the causes of the growing Anglo-German hostility, cf. pp. 48–57. It was in the latter part of April, 1903, that the Bagdad Railway negotiations fell through. In May, Edward VII paid an official visit to Paris; in October, an arbitration agreement was signed by France and Great Britain. The following spring the treaties constituting the Entente Cordiale were executed. Sir Thomas Barclay, Thirty Years’ Reminiscences (London, 1906), pp. 175 et seq. For the text of these agreements cf. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 103 (1905), No. Cd. 2384.