SIR EDWARD GREY AND GERMANY
'THE INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE LICHNOWSKY. By Telegraph—Press Association—ConyrisM (Rcc. September 16, 11.25 p.m.) London; September 16. Sir Edward Grey (Secretary of Stato for Foreign Affairs), in reply to a conrespondent says that bis interview with Prince Liclmowsky (German Ambassador in London before the war), 'was private. He denies tho alleged utterances, and says lie did not speak of mediation. [The "North German Gazette" recently published extracts from Prince Liclmowsky's report to show, that in a parting interview . (it alleged), Sir_ Edward Grey stated that the decisive factor was the consideration whether Britain would not suffer greater if she held aloof than if she participated. In the latter oase, she would be in apposition to threaten to retire from the fight. Sir Edward Grey offered to undertake mediation, for Britain was remote from every wish to crush. Germany. Prince Lichnowsky remarked that the role of arbitrator would come more quickly in the event of Britain being neutral.J
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2569, 17 September 1915, Page 5
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161SIR EDWARD GREY AND GERMANY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2569, 17 September 1915, Page 5
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