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Old 07-24-14, 10:53 AM   #21
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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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