Immortal Great War Quote 52

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators. 

British Prime Minister Henry Asquith, in a personal letter dated 24 July 1914 (a week before the war started)

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