06/03/1914
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"Peace, peace, peace has been the talk of her Foreign Office for now a year and more; not peace upon her own initiative, but upon the initiative of the nations over which she now deems herself to hold ..."
"For us there is but one choice."
"They are themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us."
"We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve."