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⁵ Haldane to his mother, 1 Aug. 1914, Haldane MSS 5992.

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¹⁹ Ibid. nos 236, 258, 265, 357, 368; B.D. XI, no. 176. See also Austrian Ambassador Mensdorff's report of an interview with Tyrrell on 29 July: ‘…should it affect a vital interest of France's or what is more a question of France as a Power, no English government would be capable of preventing a participation of Great Britain on the side of France’, Geiss, I. (ed.), July 1914, The outbreak of the First World War: selected documents (New York, 1974), no. 122.Google Scholar

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²⁷ See for example Grey to Rumbold, 25 July 1914, B.D. XI, no. 116.