Ambassador McCormick to Acting Secretary of State Adee.
American Embassy,
Paris, July 12,
1905.
No. 22.]Sir: On the 10th instant I telegraphed the
Department that the difficulty with Germany regarding the French
interests and sphere of influence in Morocco had been settled, and I now
send a copy and translation of the official text of the arrangement
signed by Germany and by France on the 8th instant.
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I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.]
translation of the official text of the
arrangement signed by germany and france.
M. Rouvier, Prime Minister and
Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Prince Radolin, German
Ambassador in Paris.
The Government of the Republic has acquired the conviction, from the
conversations which have taken place between the representatives of
both countries in Paris and Berlin, that the Imperial Government
would not pursue in the conference proposed by the Sultan of Morocco
any course which would compromise the legitimate hopes of France in
that country, which would be contrary to the rights of France
resulting from her treaties or arrangements, which rights are in
harmony with the following principles: Sovereignty and independence
of the Sultan, integrity of his Empire, economic liberty without any
inequality, utility of police reforms and financial reforms, the
introduction of which would be settled for a short period by
international agreement, recognition of the situation created for
France in Morocco by the contiguity of a vast extent of territory of
Algeria and the Shereefian Empire and by the special relations
resulting therefrom between the two adjacent countries, as well as
by the special interest for France, due to this fact, that order
should reign in the Shereefian Empire. Consequently, the Government
of the Republic abandons its original objections to the conference
and agrees to take part in it.
