2024-07-22
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The discussion had reached its inconclusive end and the cabinet was about to separate when the quiet, grave tones of Sir Edward Greys voice were heard reading a document which had just been brought to him from the Foreign Office.
It was the austrian note to Serbia.
We were all very tired.
But gradually, as the phrases and sentences followed one another, impressions of a wholly different character began to form.
In my mind.
This note was clearly an ultimatum.
But it was an ultimatum such as had never been penned in modern times.
As the reading proceeded, it seemed absolutely impossible that any state in the world could accept it, or that any acceptance, however abject, would satisfy the aggressor.
The parishes of Fermanagh and Tyrone faded back into the mists and squalls of Ireland, and a strange light began immediately by perceptible gradations to fall and to grow upon the map of Europe.
So that Dominic was Winston Churchill, of course, writing in the world crisis, which is a book largely about himself, I think, isn't it?
It?
Isn't it?
On the cabinet meeting held in London, the capital of the United Kingdom and of the British Empire on the 24 July 1914.
And Churchill there is describing the moment that the british foreign secretary, and absolutely a personal hero of mine, Sir Edward Grey, reads the austrian ultimatum to Serbia, to his colleagues in the liberal government and people who heard our last episode, we ended with the world literally holding its breath, literally.
Literally, as it waited for Serbia's reply to this very, very kind of strict and stern austrian ultimatum, and with the Russians and the French having pledged that they will hold firm against any sense of uppediness from Austria and more particularly from Germany.
But I think we've had far too much focus on continental powers so far.