ABSTRACT
The German Government accepted in general terms the proposal for an exchange of information and mentioned the possibility of retardation. They asked what ‘equivalent’ was offered in return for an engagement to renounce an extension of the naval law. They also insisted on a political agreement. The action of Germany over the Bosnian question seemed to British observers, for the time at least, to end any hope of a genuine change of policy on the part of the German Government towards the friends of Great Britain. The Prime Minister answered that any intimation that the German Government desired to make an agreement would be met ‘with a cordial response’. The German proposals for a political understanding offered a difficulty owing to British relations with other Powers. Crowe thought that the German Chancellor was in a sense right in thinking that the question of naval armaments was not the main cause of Anglo-German estrangement.
