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Show I INIJDjEACE II Question, of Edward's Death on H International Relation Is H Universally Raised. H WORK AS PACIFICATION GENERALLY RECOGNIZED H In Crisis Over Morocco When H Europe Was on Verge of H War, King Proved Power. Hu JBY PAUIi LAMBETH. Bpoclal Cable to The Tribune. OT LONDON, May 7. What will bo the HH eiToct of the death of Edward, the BR peacemaker, on the relations between H the great nations of the world, is the Hn question beinfr asked not only in Lon- IM don but in every capital of the world. MSB Only time can civo the answer. HU That Edwanf VII. had been one ot HQ the most potent factors in maintain Warn inc the peace of the world tor the mm past ten years is not questioned. That 3H he has, by bis fine tact and splendid PBI diplomacy on more than one occasion H relieved tho tension between the na- HI tions which had come dangerously near mm the breaking point. To him it has H been attributed 'in very large degree Hi the entente cordialc between vreat El Britain and Prance. The credit tor HI the bringing of a lasting peace in M South Africa after the Boer war, is HH largely his. He succeeded in placing HR the relations between England and Hus. H m 3 more friendly basis than they had been since tho two powers came HB in contact in the east. HI Good Work for Peace. Wmm In the. dangerous crisis over Morocco. HI when the contentions of Germany and France over the control of the African IB kingdom had brought Europe almost on H the verge of a general war, King Ed- HR ward played a most important part m mm bringing 'about a peaceful settlement nM When King Edward ascended, the Hi throne Great Britain had for years been linked practically, if not officially, with MB the triPlG alliance of German', Aus tria and Italy. HH Germany, through the alliance, wns -fast becoming the dominant power m HH Europe. Great Britain began to feel B Urave disquietude over the erowth ot H the new naval power in the Isorth sea. H King Edward, more farsceing than H s PCP'ei wno on'v thought of an in- H crease in armaments Xo offset tho grow H ine menace, cast about for a. means to H prevent the possibility of a conflict due H to that cause. The task before him was the old task of British statosman- H snP f seeking in the balance of powei H a security against invasion. mwa The understanding with Russia and Mm France brought this about, the alH- Hfl ancc with Japan securing England in Wmft the far east, and the friendship ot H tlie United States cultivated, made the H union still more secure. In furthcr- Iancc of his peace campaign, iving toward to-ward visited and entertained practical-lv practical-lv all the heads of European states. These interviews resulted in the almost universal adoption of the principle oi arbitration. International Negotiations. At The Hague conference of 1907 a substantial step toward obligatory arbitration ar-bitration was accomplished. Treaties pledging the powers to rcspoct the statu quo and in some cases to defend it, were also concluded on an unpreccntcd-ly unpreccntcd-ly large scale. In the main, the cov ered all the "danger spots" in Europe. Eu-rope. Asia and ' Africa. Though Germany Ger-many officially resisted tho programme of the campaign for the elimination ot armaments, it is understood that during dur-ing King Edward's visit io the kaiser in Kronbcrg in. 1908 the question was discussed bv the two monarchs in a friendly and hopeful spirit. The growing grow-ing change in German public opinion on this vital point is regarded as one of the most significant successes ot King Edward's career. Now that this able, prnctical advocate advo-cate of world peace is gone the question ques-tion naturally arises, will the great work he has quietly performed be lost? That King Georee will wilfully do anything to imperil the peace of Europe Eu-rope is not believed, but he is an in-tonse in-tonse Englishman, does not like Germany, Ger-many, particularly his cousin, the German Ger-man emperor. It may be that the responsibility re-sponsibility of peace will develop quah ties in the king of which he is not suspected and that he does not chow tho tact and ability of his father in the art of smoothing out difficulties, that he at least will not do anything which will turn the tide toward peace and the limitation of armnmeuts backyard. But Europe is anxious and doubtful. Time will tell. |