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3. Mediterranean Problems in International Diplomacy, 1886–96

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2010

F. V. Parsons
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University of Glasgow

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References

1 Salisbury, priv. to Malet (Berlin), 13 Jan. 1886 [Public Record Office], F[oreign] O[ffice] 343/2, ‘His ways of going on are very odd’; Rosebery, secret to Malet, 6 Jan. 1894, F.O. 343/3, on his ‘mysterious behaviour’.

2 Ribot, priv. to Waddington (London), 4 July 1892, Documents Diplomatiques Français, I, ix, no. 390.

3 Falkenstein, H. Trütschler von, Bismarck und die Kriegsgefahr des Jahres 1887 (Berlin, 1923)Google Scholar ; Reemtsen, R., Spanisch-deutsche Beziehungen…1882-1887 (Berlin, 1938)Google Scholar.

4 The Holstein Papers, ed. Rich, N. and Fisher, M. H., vol. I (Cambridge, 1955), 156.Google Scholar

5 Again, if the more rewarding Archives des Affaires Étrangères were resorted to, publication might be postponed indefinitely. But the Documents pour servir à I'étude du nord-ouest africain, réunis et rédigés par les ordres de M. Jules Cambon, gouverneur général de I'Algérie (1894-97) could have added a good deal.

6 Rosebery, no. 129 to Wolff (Madrid), 13 Oct. 1893, F.O. 99/311: ‘postponement in the case of war is always a good in itself’.

7 Cf. Michels (Madrid) no. 55, 27 Aug. 1884: ‘Je n'attache aux élucubrations des journaux et surtout de ce pays qu'une très mediocre importance’: Archives des Affaires Étrangères (Paris), Espagne vol. 905.

8 H. P. Anderson (Foreign Office) to Satow (Tangier), 3 Oct. 1894, Public Record Office 30/33/3/4.

9 Salisbury, priv. to Malet, 23 Feb. 1887, F.O. 343/2.

10 Maissa (Tangier) to Crispi, 30 Dec. 1887, communicated by Catalini (London) 17 Jan. 1888, F.O. 99/259: ‘…the question is already settled,…France is at the gates of Morocco’.

11 T. H. Sanderson (Assistant Under-Secretary), memorandum of conversation with Metternich (German Embassy), 25 Aug. 1891, Salisbury Papers, Christ Church, Oxford, vol. 59; Salisbury, minute on communication by Nigra (Italian Embassy), 2 July 1885, Salisbury Papers, vol. 38.

12 Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy: The Close of the Nineteenth Century (1964). This covers part of the same ground as Dr Lowe for 1895-96, but the two books were written independently.

13 Cecil, Lady G., Life of Robert Marquis of Salisbury, IV (1932), 23Google Scholar ; Hatzfeldt (London) t o Holstein, 10 Nov. 1895 , Holstein Papers, vol. 3 (1961), no. 497Google Scholar.

14 British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914, ed. Gooch, G. P. and Tem-perley, H., VIII, 181.Google Scholar

15 Rosebery to Malet, 6 Jan. 1895, F.O. 343/3, ‘…they ignored the central keystone of the situation…England’; Radolin (St Petersburg), priv. to Holstein, 19 Nov. 1895, Holstein Papers, vol. 3, no. 502, ‘I think we might ask a very high price for our friendship’.

16 Lumley (Rome), no. 252 Conf., 7 Oct. 1887, F.O. 45/575.

17 Salisbury to Lytton (Paris), 8 Feb. 1888, Salisbury Papers, vol. 59; Salisbury, minute on Malet no. 35, 2 Mar. 1887, F.O. 64/1155.

18 I am indebted to the Marquess of Salisbury for permission to quote from the papers of his grandfather.