The Entente Cordiale.

In May 1903 King Edward VII made a celebrated visit to Paris and in July the compliment was returned, when the French President, Emile Loubet and foreign minister, Theophile Declasses, came to London. A year later the two countries agreed the Entente Cordiale, in which France relinquished her interest in Egypt in exchange for a free hand in Morocco than a ‘Cordial understand’ it was much more commitment, however tentative, which might bringer to the support of France in the event of a German attack.

To the Germans, too, there was a feeling that Britain and France night have made some sort of secret military alliance against the Triple Alliance. Three years later it became a Triple entente when British and Russia agreed to settle their differences in Asia. Gradually, Europe was drawn into two armed camps. On the other hand, Germany and Austria-Hungary formed a close alliance. On the other France, Russia and Britain.

The Kaiser’s visit to Tangier in 1905 and the sending of gunboat Agadir in 1811 were probably motivated by a desire to split the Entente Cordiale. In fact, it had the reverse effect and British and French generals began to discuss the unthinkable-joint military operations in the events of war against Germany.