MOROCCAN NEGOTIATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1211, 21 August 1911, Page 5

MOROCCAN NEGOTIATIONS.

CPOSTPONED TEMPORARILY, 0} Tolceraoh-Press As=(iclation-Ooiiyrlizhl (Rec. August 20, 5.5 p.m.) Berlin, August 20. Tho diplomatic conversations with respect to tho Moroccan situation have bcoji adjourned foi a fortnight. Ilerr von Kiderleu Waechter, Germnji Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is visiting Marioabad, and M. Jules Cambon, the French Ambassador, is proceeding .to Paris. Tho German newspapers attribute tho French "firmness, which has frustrated Germany's diplomacy, to Mr. Asquith's and Mr. Lloyd-George's speeches. THE CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH. Mr. Lloyd-George's speech on tho international situation, Vhich lias attracted so much attention iu England and abroad;- was dismissed in two or three line 3by the Press Association agent. It was made on July 21 to a gathering of London bankers. According to the San Francisco "Chronicle," Mr. Llo.vd-Georgo referred to Great Britain's continuallygrowing prosperity, which, ho said, could only bo arrested by a disturbance of the world's ptfico. Therefore ho was ready to make groat sacrifices to preserve peace, and would rejoieo at tho success of the arbitration negotiations with tho United States. But, ho added, it was essential that Great Britain at all hazards should maintain her placo and prestige among tho great Powers.

If a situation wore forced upon Great Britain where ppaee could only bp preserved by the surrender of tho position sho had won 6y centuries of heroism and. achievement, -by allowing herself to bo treated where vital interests wcro concerned ns though she wcro of no account in tho cabinet of nations, then, he said emphatically, peace at that price would bo a humiliation intolerable for a groat country like England to endure. ' "National honour," said tho Chancellor, "is no party que.stioji. Tho security of our international trado is not a party question. The peaco of tho world is moro liltelv to bo secured if all nations realise fairly what tho conditions of peaco must be." The speech, adds tho corresnondont, made a deep impression on his listeners. Lloyd-George's audHi'e interpreted the snoech to mem that the Moroccan Bituntion is serious enonsh to have decided the Cabinet to depute the Chancellor to take this npmrtunity of affirming tho British standpoint.