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He spoke of its dauntless patriotism, its passionate longing for revenge, fostered for many long years of national subservience; the determination to avenge the humiliations of Delcassé, of Agadir, of the Coronation at Versailles. As vivacious and eloquent as only one of his nation and calling can be, he praised the confidence of the French Army and its "Généralissime."
This was Theophile Delcasse, a little man with a large head and a great brain. He refused to be tempted by the offers of German help, thinking that England, with its free government, was a much better friend for the republic than the military empire of Germany could be. Just when the trouble was at its height, the English ambassador came to see Mr.
"H'm ... It seems to me that I've heard tales of our Tewfick and of pretty ladies in apartments. Cairo is a city of secrets and tattlers. However as to this Delcassé inheritance, I'll just notify the French legation " "We'll have to look sharp," said Ryder quickly. "There's no time to lose. The girl is to be married." "Married?... But she'll inherit the money just the same."
Sir E. Monson left M. Delcassé in no doubt as to the view Her Majesty's Government took of the situation. Of the interview referred to, he reports to Lord Salisbury as follows, under date September 22:
The instructions given by Lord Salisbury, through Lord Cromer, to the Sirdar, have been given elsewhere in this chapter. On September 11 our Ambassador informed M. Delcassé of the advance of the Sirdar up the Nile, and on the 18th the French Foreign Minister stated further: "As a matter of fact, there is no Marchand Mission.
France demands that her possessions in Tonking, Cochin China, Cambodia, Annam, and Laos shall be guaranteed; that Russia be instrumental in assisting her to acquire Egypt, and that it pledge itself to support the French policy in Tunis and the rest of Africa." In accordance with my instructions, I felt myself empowered to assure M. Delcasse that his conditions were accepted on our side.
After all this time she has decided to make active inquiries." "But you said that Delcassé had died " "He left a wife and child. Her letters of her husband's death reached his relatives in France, then nothing more. They feared that the same fever but nothing, positively, was known.... A sad story, monsieur.... This Delcassé was young and adventurous and an ardent explorer.
"But we have just been speaking you cannot mean to say " "We have been speaking of my daughter the daughter of the former Madame Delcassé." Smilingly he looked upon them. "A pity that we did not understand each other. But you appear to know so much and I supposed that you knew that, too, that the daughter of Monsieur Delcassé was dead." Neither of the young men spoke.
On the other hand, Delcasse, the Frenchman who settled the Fashoda trouble, was compelled to resign his position as minister of foreign affairs because the Germans objected to him, and the French felt that Germany had humiliated them. You will remember that two counties of the Turkish empire, Bosnia and Herzegovina, had been turned over to Austria to rule by the Congress of Berlin in 1878.
We are not under the French law at least I have not heard that England has relinquished her power," retorted Tewfick not without malice. "But Mademoiselle Delcassé is French," thrust in Ryder. He knew that McLean had ventured as far as he, an official and responsible person, could go, and that the burden of intimation must rest upon himself.
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