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Updated: June 4, 2025
Then, after further summing up the state of France, the finances embarrassed, the entente cordiale with England at an end, and the provinces in confusion, the prince adds: "Those unhappy Spanish marriages! we have not yet drained the cup of bitterness they have mixed for us to drink."
"Tim likes to remember his 'general orders, but he's forgotten Number Five," laughed the blond man. "Five? 'To talk to no one except in line of duty. Don't need it here, Merry." "Nope. The entente cordiale is the thing. Here's hoping nobody makes Tim remember his 'Gin'ral Order Number Thirteen' while we're gone, Rod."
Delcassé desired to persevere with pacific penetration; but in the debate of April 19 the deficiencies of the French military system were admitted with startling frankness; and a threat from Berlin revealed the intention of humiliating France, and, if possible, of severing the Anglo-French Entente. Here, indeed, is the inner significance of the crisis.
The more one thinks about this mediation proposal the more clearly one recognizes that it would have made for a diplomatic victory of the Triple Entente." Even the claim that Austria showed some inclination to permit mediation on the points in her ultimatum to Serbia which were incompatible with Serbia's sovereignty, has been categorically denied.
For, with an unfriendly Entente interesting itself, no war which broke out was likely to be capable of being kept localized. Tirpitz was not in Berlin on July 5, but he received reports from there of what was happening.
Model and master they would have remained no longer had it been for him to say, he desiring now to make it a favor and concession on her part to aid him professionally, she gravely insisting on professionalism as the basis of whatever entente might develop between them, as well as the only avowed excuse for her presence there alone with him. "Please.
But their real importance for us is shown by the consideration that the withdrawal of Italy from the Triple Alliance, or, indeed, its secession to an Anglo-Franco-Russian entente, would probably be the signal for a great European war against us and Austria.
Baffled by this firmness, and conscious that further intervention in such matter would be fraught with grave difficulties, the Entente Powers decided to maintain a watchful attitude but to do no more publicly. Consequently events marched forward so rapidlly that by December the deed was done, and Yuan Shih-kai had apparently been elected unanimously Emperor of China by the provincial ballot.
The German generals will not be so foolish as to wait until the Entente has invaded Germany through Austria, but will take care to make Austria itself the theatre of war.
After the dancing began, Nais was unable to accept all the invitations which the elegant young lions vied with one another in pressing upon her; in fact, she grew sadly confused as to the number and order of her engagements, a circumstance which very nearly led, in spite of the entente cordiale, to an open rupture between France and perfidious Albion.
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