Diplomacy Revealed

by Edward Dene Morel

DIPLOMACY

REVEALED

BY

E. D. MOREL

Author of "Nigeria: its peoples and its problems"; "Affairs of West Africa"; King Leopold's Role in Africa"; "Red Rubber"; "Great Britain and the Congo"; "The British Case in French Congo"; "Africa and the Peace of Europe"; "Ten Years of Secret Diplomacy"; "Truth and the War": "The Black Man's Burden"; 'Thoughts on the War; the Peace and Prison."

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THE NATIONAL LABOUR PRESS, LTD.,

8 & 9, Johnson's Court, Fleet Street, London, E.G. 4; 30, Blackfriars Street, Manchester.

DEDICATION.

 

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To the Young Men
in the
Labour and Socialist Movement
who are acting as
intellectual torch-bearers
to their fellows.

CONTENTS.

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	PAGE
Dedication	iii.
Contents	v.
Key	vii.
Foreword	ix.
Introduction to the Despatches	xiii.
PART I. (1905)	1
Chronology of Principal Events	3
Despatches from the Belgian Ministers in London, Paris, and Berlin, and from the Belgian Charge d'Affaires in Berlin	5
Explanatory Footnotes to Text	31
PART II. (1906)	37
Chronology of Principal Events	39
Despatches from the Belgian Charge d'Affaires in London, the Belgian Minister in Paris, the Belgian Minister in Berlin, and the Belgian Minister in London	41
Explanatory Footnotes to Text	51
PART III. (1907)	57
Chronology of Principal Events	59
Despatches from the Belgian Minister in Paris, the Belgian Minister in London, the Belgian Minister in Berlin, and the Belgian Charge d'Affaires in London	61
Explanatory Footnotes to Text	95
PART IV. (1908)	103
Chronology of Principal Events	105
Despatches from the Belgian Minister in Berlin and the Belgian Minister in Paris	109
Explanatory Footnotes to Text	134
PART V. (1909)	141
Chronology of Principal Events	143
Despatches from the Belgian Minister and the Belgian Charge d'Affaires in Paris and the Belgian Minister in Berlin	145
Explanatory Footnotes to Text	160
PART VI. (1910-1911)	163
Chronology of Principal Events	165
Despatches from the Belgian Minister in Paris, the new Belgian Minister in Paris, the Belgian Minister in Berlin, the Belgian Minister in London, and the Belgian Charge d'Affaires in Paris	167
Explanatory Footnotes to Text	214
PART VII. (1912-1913)	221
Chronology of Principal Events	223
Despatches from the Belgian Minister in London, the Belgian Minister in Berlin, the new Belgian Minister in Berlin, the Belgian Minister in Paris	227
Explanatory Footnotes to Text	261
PART VIII. (1914 to the murder of the Austrian heir-apparent.)	273
Chronology of Principal Events	275
Despatches from the Belgian Minister in Paris, the Belgian Minister in Berlin, and the Belgian Minister in London	279
Explanatory Footnotes to Text	301