Edward Grey's 'lamps are going out'
1914 · Event
Watching dusk fall over St James's Park on the evening Germany declares war on France, Britain's foreign secretary speaks the war's most quoted epitaph in advance: 'The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' Britain declares war the next day.
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