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"L'attitude de la Grande-Bretagne s'affirme par l'arrêt"de la démobilisation de sa flotte."Le Premier Lord de l'Amirauté"avait pris discrètement cette"mesure dès vendredi, de sa"propre initiative; cette nuit,"SirEdward Grey et ses collègues"ont décidé de la publier. Ce"résultat est dû à l'attitude con-ciliante de la Serbie et de"la Russie."

The attitude of Great Britainis demonstrated by the inhibitionof the demobilisation of herfleet. The First Lord of the Ad-miralty had discreetly taken thatstep since Friday (24 th of July)upon his own initiative. To-night Sir Edward Grey and hiscolleagues have decided topublish it. This result is due tothe conciliator)' attitude of Servia and Russia .

Notice is to be taken of the difference of tone used by SirEdward Grey and Sir Arthur Nicolson in their respective statementsto the French Chargé d'Affaires: Nicolson pretends to have madedeclarations to the German Ambassador which left no doubt inthe latter's mind that England was retaining full liberty of inter-vention. Grey , however, declares to have confined himself tothe remark that also "other Powers" would be led to participatein a war.*)

But more significant than the difference between the sharpertone of Nicolson who, by the way, is one of the sponsors of theAnglo-Russian rapprochement, and the rather milder tune of Sir

*) The French Government has authorised an English translation ofthe French Yellow Book through "The Times", this authorisation beingexpressly confirmed on the title-page of the book. The French original,No. 66, reads:

"...... et il s'ensuivrait une guerre, à laquelle d'autres

"Puissances seraient amenées à prendre part".This is being translated by "The Times" as follows:

"...... and a war would ensue, in which all the Powers

"would take part".So the original and authentic version of the French Yellow Book hasbeen forged on the authority of the French Government. By thistouching up, a directness and firmness of speech is for obvious reasonsattributed to Sir Edward Grey as early as on the 27 th of July, whichin reality he did not employ until several days later.