Legion of Honor upon Prince Radolin and Baron von
Schoen. If France required any further proof of Ger-
many's changed attitude in the Moroccan question it
was given by Chancellor von Bülow the day after the
accord was signed. Receiving M. Cambon in a most
gracious manner he said to him: "Now, Morocco is
a fruit which is ripening for you and you are sure of
picking it; we only ask one thing of you, that is to be
patient and to have regard for German public opin-
ion." ⁵²

One of the chief advantages accruing to France from
the accord was the immediate effect which it had in in-
creasing the prestige of France in Morocco. In his
exhaustive report before the Senate on the whole Mo-
roccan question January 25, 1912, M. Pierre Baudin
says: "It proved to the Sultan and the chiefs of the
tribes that they had nothing further to hope for from
the antagonism between France and Germany. In
every Mohammedan country in Africa it created a pro-
found impression. It destroyed the effect of the
propoganda cleverly organized, which since the events
of Tangier in 1905 had been attempting to persuade
the natives that France would soon cede her place to
the German Empire." ⁵³ With the Kaiser appeased
and the Sultan cowed, France saw the last of the ob-
stacles in her Moroccan pathway removed. The sit-
uation appeared so promising that one deputy was led
to remark: "Que va devenir M. Jaurès?" The re-
tort was exceedingly prescient: "Timeo Danaos dona
ferentes."

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