Oct. 5, Shortly after the beginning of the war the Foreign Office published a White Book of exceptional interest, which contains the correspondence between Sir Edward Grey and: the British Ambassadors at the various European capitals from July 20 to August 4 of this year. Some idea of the activity displayed by the Foreign Office during this period of barely a fortnight may be gathered from the fact that the White Book contains over 150 documents, almost all of the utmost importance and the greatest gravity. Written obviously with the greatest care, these despatches to and from the Ambassadors at the different capitals report the views taken by statesmen in Berlin, Petrograd, Paris, Rome, Vienna, London and elsewhere, and reflect the different sentiments guiding the policy in each country; and although events moved with such rapidity that it is difficult to summarize the effect of these despatches in succinct form, it is possible to gather from them, with " very fair degree of accuracy, what at-
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