"Just for a word—"neutrality," a word which in war-time had so often been disregarded—just for a scrap of paper, Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her."
— War

January 1, 1970

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Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor, to Sir Edward Goschen, British Ambassador (August 4, 1914), in James M. Beck, The Case of Belgium (1914), pp. 214–15