The Moroccan Crisis and War
The whole French Cabinet resigned on January 10, and the charge is made in the French press that the resignation is caused by Premier Caillaux seeking to favor Germany in the recent Moroccan dispute. When the German emperor visited Morocco in 1905, he said, in a speech, that French domination in that country would not be tolerated. And on his return to Germany, it is said, he demanded the resignation of Premier Delcasse, who strongly opposed the emperor's plans for Morocco. Delcasse was dismissed soon after, but now it is proposed to return him to the premiership, and that will mean opposition to Germany. Just as it had seemed that the Moroccan question was being settled amicably, it breaks out afresh, and there is no predicting what the outcome of it will be. There seems to be an irrepressible volcano of war that is determined to break out in spite of all that good men can do to stop it. These conditions forcibly remind one of the prophecy of the Bible that tells of the time when the spirits of demons would be working to embroil the whole world in war.