Mr. Samuel, the Postmaster-General, who attended the unveiling of a
bust of King Edward by the British Ambas- sador in Paris last Saturday afternoon, made an important speech at the dinner of the British Chamber of Commerce on the same evening. The most interesting part of his speech was that in which he alluded to the progress of the Morocco negotiations :—
" The Ministers present, who know the course of these negotiations from the beginning, will be ready to confirm me when I state that England has not at any moment raised difficulties ; has not at any moment asked France, for the sake of British interests, to take steps she would not otherwise have taken ; has not at any moment asked France to refuse concessions which she would otherwise have been ready to make. . . . Our sincere desire has always been to see a prompt and honourable solution of the Moroccan question. England has no territorial or dynastic ambitions, and does not aspire to the rele of involving any country in trouble with any other."
Mr. Samuel is to be commended for the discretion as well as the frankness with which he touched on delicate ground.
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