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Title: Review of reviews and world’s work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto
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^ admitted—thatFrance will ultimately get the larger portionof the best provinces of Morocco. In thegeneral liquidation of the Moorish Sultansdomain, however, Germans hope to obtaincompensating advantages. Agadir is anexcellent point to develop the Kaisers daringscheme to get the lions share of South Amer-ican trade. It is within easy reach of Brazil,and, moreover, it commands the British oceanroutes to South Africa, India, and Australia.This latter fact explains the British interest.Agadir might be transformed into a navalstation of much strength.
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.^mi RKVIVING THl!; BI.SMARCKIAN POLICY OF THEMAILED FIST(Herr von Kiderlen-Wachter, the German Foreign Min-ister, outlining his African policy)From the Amsterdammer (Amsterdam) Resentment ^ome of the European journalsAgainst German affcct to scc danger to the UnitedMethods gt^tcs, as well as Great Britain, inthe establishment of a German naval stationon the Atlantic coast of Morocco, maintainingthat, once in possession of such a post, Ger-many will reap a good deal of the strategicadvantages of the Panama Canal. The inci-dent is apparently a further illustration of theopportunist policy of the Kaiser, which hasbeen summed up by one French observer as:Never miss a good opportunity for makingthe rest of the powers feel that nothing can besettled without Germany being first consulted,but let the Fatherland assert itself at themoment when such assertion will be mostlikely to produce results without producingwar. The cynical chancelleries of Europeare expecting the Germans to remain atAga
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