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In summer, 1914, the world went to war.

Now 110 years later, we go back to those figures, to those debates, to those questions, in the greatest failure in the history of diplomacy. I am Dr. Zach Twomley. You're listening to When Diplomacy Fails, and this is the July crisis. Things are now going their course.

I doubt whether in the end we shall not be dragged in.

We are making all preparations.

If we fail, it may be our turn next,

and if we are firm, we may bring things to a close.

Ficount Haldane writes to his wife, 3rd of August, 1914.

After weeks of division, indecision and secrecy, Monday the 3rd of August would finally be the day when Sir Edward Gray would reveal Britain's position to Parliament, and thus the world.

For the British people, the Bank Holiday weekend continued with unseasonably hot weather,

and there was no indication that critically important decisions had been made the day before.

Not even the newspapers had got word of the fact that the Cabinet had committed to intervention

if either the French coasts or Belgium were attacked.

However, these papers did discover the prevailing rumours. The Germans accused the French of engaging in hostile cross-border activities, while the French did the same.

And it's interesting to see how the conservative newspapers in particular

emphasized the French version of events as gospel. Identifying its pro-antant sympathies,

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