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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Your link doesn't mention the precise letter. Do you have a link to that? I ask because the actual quote from Gilbert is "...Asquith told King George V..."
So, did Asquith write Stanley repeating what he told the King? Did he mention it to her at all? Did he actually say that to the King? Did he only say it to her?
Need input.
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I believe the exact words quoted were those written to Stanley, it is possible that he could have put similar words to the King, although at that time the primary preoccupation of the British government and monarchy was Ireland, however whilst his conversation with the King was not recorded and preserved, his letters to Stanley were, and thus we can see that he wrote to her
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"...the situation is just about as bad as it can possibly be. Austria has sent a bullying and humiliating ultimatum to Serbia, who cannot possibly comply with it, and demanded an answer within forty-eight hours-failing which she will march. This means, almost inevitably, that Russia will come to the scene in defence of Serbia and in defiance of Austria, and if so, it is difficult for Germany and France to refrain from lending a hand to one side or the other. So that we are in measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily, there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more then spectators."
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