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Dirtdog20 -> RE: And the guns started firing (8/5/2004 6:56:10 PM)
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"... Did Britian expect Germany to bow to her ultimatum? Page asked. Grey shook his head. 'No of course everyone knows there will be a war.' He stopped for a moment struggling for words. When he resumed his eyes were filled with tears. 'Thus, the efforts of a lifetime go for nothing. I feel like a man who has wasted his life.' At dusk that evening, Grey stood with a friend at his window in the Foreign Office, looking looking down at the lamps being lit in St. James Park. It was then that the unpoetic Sir Edward Grey uttered the lines which memorably signalled the coming of the First Word War. ' The lamps are going out all over Europe', he said. 'We shall not see them it again in our lifetime.'
P907
"Dreadnought Britian, German, and the Coming of the Great War"
Robert K Massie
1991
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