ABSTRACT
The Moroccan crisis was bound to affect the question of Anglo-German naval rivalry. The German navy was growing in strength. Germany must be well armed, and Germans should be grateful to the Navy League. The principal motive of English policy was hatred of German commercial and industrial competition. A strong German move would convince the French Government that the friendship of England was not enough to secure German consent to the occupation of Morocco. If Germany wished to show that England was only a ‘platonic’ friend, and that English support would not be given to France, then it was clearly to the interest of England to be extremely forthcoming. Great Britain would give full support to France within the terms of the agreement, while trying at the same time to find means of satisfying Germany; but Germany seemed to want nothing more and nothing less than the destruction of the entente.
