Edward Grey Quotes
There was no authority with which diplomacy could deal.
Edward Grey [Viscount Fallodon], 1862-1933, British Foreign Secretary (Liberal), Description of the chaos in Mexico when the government of Porfirio Diaz was overthrown and General Victoriano Huerta, 1854-1916, proclaimed himself President
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She was decrying a practice where the Untied States would not negotiate or meet directly with Iran and were communicating diplomatically through other nations diplomats.
The “proofs” were diplomatic assurances—treaties—that England would guarantee the territorial integrity of Belgium. The British made strong diplomatic efforts to persuade Germany not to occupy Belgium. The German’s none the less send armies in under the excuse that if they did not, the French would occupy the country and have a strategic advantage over them. Diplomacy could do no more good. England had to send troops or renege on its obligations. So England was in WWI.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, KG, PC, DL, FZS, better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British Liberal statesman and the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War.
