After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

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• Edward Grey:

  Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the e

• Edward Grey:

  An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot

• Edward Grey:

  From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory

• Edward Grey:

  I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of th

• Edward Grey:

  I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view

• Edward Grey:

  I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbi

• Edward Grey:

  I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it b

• Edward Grey:

  If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple A

• Edward Grey:

  In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had be

• Edward Grey:

  Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, a