July 24, 1914: The Russian Council of Minsters announces that Russia "cannot remain indifferent" to Austria's demands on Serbia, and secretly starts to mobilize thirteen army corps.
"Europe is within measurable distance of a real Armaggedon...Happily there seems to be no reason why Britain should be anything more than spectators"
-Prime Minister Asquith, in a message to King George V
"(The Austrian ultimatum is)...the most insolent document of its kind ever devised."
- Winston Churchill, in a letter to his wife
source: The First World War, by Martin Gilbert
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