Now it is 38 years since Germany had her last war, and she is very strong and very restless, like a person whose boots are too small for him.
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Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover.Edward Grey
A conviction that a great European war under modem conditions would be a catastrophe for which previous wars afforded no precedent.
Edward Grey
Under modern conditions whole nations could be mobilized at once and their whole life-blood and resources poured out in a torrent.
Edward Grey
The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.
Edward Grey
I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously.
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I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all.
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