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 grew in power from day to day, and this policy is associated with the name of King Edward VII. This policy had the effect of a challenge upon the German mind. Germany saw, in the efficiency of King Edward, a belligerent spirit, and she therefore determined all the more to secure her prestige and her political position in the world and to pursue her imperialistic policy. Germany's consciousness of power had been established by incomparable military victories and increased by her enormous economic development, and the English attitude was nothing but food for the German desire for aggrandizement.

The French Navy was fairly powerful, and England suffered it to be so. Italy, and especially France, had acquired far greater Colonial possessions in the last decade than Germany. England's nervousness, created by the German development, was consequently regarded by the German Empire as pure jealousy and envy.

The Entente Cordiale was established in 1904. An agreement was concluded between England and France which divided the European powers apparently into three groups, inasmuch as (he Entente was added to the Triple and the Dual Alliance. In point of fact, however, as France was a member of the Entente as well as the Dual Alliance, Russia became an ally of England, and in this way the European powers were divided into two ramps: the Entente, led by England, on the one hand, and the Triple Alliance, led by Germany, on the other. There were two bones of contention between these two groups: one was the Morocco