SIR EDWARD GREY TC M. CAMBON

Foreign Office, November 22, 1912.

My dear Ambassador,

other by armed force. We have agreed that consultation between experts is not, and ought not to be regarded as, an engagement that commils either Government to action in a contingency that has not arisen and may never arise. The disposition, for instance, of the French and British fleets respectively at the present moment is not bused upon an

You have, however, pointed out that, if either Government had grave reason lo expect an unprovoked attack by a third Power, it might

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serve peace, and, if so, what measures {hey would be brepared to take in common. If these measures involved action, the plans of the General Staffs would at once be taken into consideration, and the Governments would then decide what effect should be given lo them.

Yours, etc.,