“If there is one thing more than another that I have striven to secure during the last seven years it is that we should not incur any increase of Imperial liabilities.”

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Letter to C. P. Scott (21 September 1912), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon; Being the Life of Sir Edward Grey afterwards Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1937), p. 200
1910s

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