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Honor in the anti-interventionist camp

Britain's liberal government was strikingly divided interventionist camp.

Britain's liberal government was strikingly divided when British policy in the event of a continental war was debated.

This was not only due to the fact that the prospect of war had seemed by the summer of

1914 to be increasingly unlikely.

As this chapter will demonstrate, anti-interventionists disagreed fundamentally with the notion

that Britain was honorably obligated to support France, or that supporting Russia was anything

other than an immoral course. Honor was to be defended, these actors believed, by the enacting of policy at home, not by intervention abroad.

On the 1st of August 1914, Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Gray pointed out to Paul Cambon, the French ambassador to Britain,

that, quote, we had no obligations, we had purposely kept clear of alliances, I had assured Parliament

again and again that our hands were free, end quote. The media sensed this consensus.

The Manchester Evening News noted that,

quote,

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