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Show ENGLAND DESIRES PEACE. , Her Relations to Other European Nations Explained by Sir. Edward Grey. London. Sir Edward Grey, secretary secre-tary for foreign affairs, on Monday cleared the political atmosphere and poured oil on the turbulent waters of Anglo-German relations in ' a speech in. the house of commons. The foreign secretary reviewed the whole Moroccan episode, from the sudden appearance of the German Ger-man gunboat Panther at the port of Agadir up to the signing of the Franco-German treaty. He unflinchingly unflinch-ingly upheld the attitude taken by the- British government, but at the same time declared that its action was never antagonistic to Germany or to any settlement she was able to arrange with France which did not threaten the rights of Great Britain. Sir Edward made no secret of the fact that the situation had at one time been tense, but thought his statements would prove a sedative to a world which had been indulging in a fit of political alcoholism and that the time had arrived for it to get sober and to keep cool. Great Britain had no secret treaty and both France and Russia knew perfectly well that British public opinion would not support any provocative prov-ocative or aggressive action against Germany. Germany's strength in itself was a guarantee that no other country would seek a quarrel with her, but if a nation had the biggest army in the world and a very big navy and was going to build a still bigger navy, then that nation must do all in its power to prevent apprehensions apprehen-sions of others, lest that power should have aggressive intentions toward to-ward them. |