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If, on the other hand, by some misfortune or blunder our Entente with…

Quote byEdward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon · 1862–1933

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Theodore Roosevelt (December 1906), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, Grey of Fallodon; Being the Life of Sir Edward Grey afterwards Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1937), p. 115.

English (original)

If, on the other hand, by some misfortune or blunder our Entente with France were to be broken up, France will have to make her own terms with Germany. And Germany will again be in a position to keep us on bad terms with Germany and Russia, and to make herself predominant upon the Continent. Then, sooner or later, there will be war between us and Germany, in which much else may be involved.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

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