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I did not...regard anything except my own letters and official papers…

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

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to G. P. Gooch (5 February 1929), quoted in British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914. Vol . VI, Anglo-German Tension: Armaments and Negotiation, 1907-12, eds. G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley (1930), p. ix.

English (original)

I did not...regard anything except my own letters and official papers as deciding policy.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

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