Although France has failed in her object of getting a
definite answer at once from Germany as to Morocco, the expectation of a settlement before very long is rather stronger than it has been before. The see-saw of alternating pessimism and optimism in Berlin and Paris has given way to simultaneous optimism, and this and the announcement that time-expired soldiers in both countries will probably be allowed to return home are the best signs we have had to record for some weeks. M. Cambon, the French Ambassador in Berlin, presented the French reply to the last German proposals on Friday week. At the back of the French reply was the most united public opinion which has been known for years. The practical limit of territorial concessions by France has been reached, and many prominent Frenchmen are doubtful even now if the country will sanction the abandonment of so large a slice of the French Congo. The only condition on which it would be sanctioned is felt to be that Germany should renounce the claim to economic privileges in Morocco in the most explicit terms.
