Lord Baldwin described how. when he sat in the Commons while the Premier was making his speech detailing the successive stages -of the etisis, and everyone present thought war inevitable his mind went back to that day in August, 1914.
"I have never forgotten Edward Grey's face—the face of a man who looked as if he had been through hell and I thought the skies were completely black, "The prayers of nations had been ascending night and day, not only in this country, but in other countries, and no answer had come. In the middle of the Premier's speech, the Foreign Secretary was handed a tele-ram, and he showed it to me.
"It" was the answer—the expected answer to the Prime Minister's appeal.
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