Quote#Wisdom
[Bryce] thought she [Russia] was becoming a menace to Europe with her…
Quote byJames Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce · 1838–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Remarks to C. P. Scott, as recorded in his diary (30 June 1914), in Trevor Wilson (ed.), The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911-1928 (1970), p. 88.
English (original)
[Bryce] thought she [Russia] was becoming a menace to Europe with her vast and rapidly increasing population and her also rapidly increasing prosperity. The Duma was no check on the ambitions of the official class. Germany, he thought, was right to arm and she would need every man.
— James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
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