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| “ | The British are in many ways dull ... The richer we grow through the acceptance of their insistence that we sell them munitions of war the more unpopular we become ... I loathe the idea of our making money out of their misfortune but nevertheless it is inevitable | ” |
| — Colonel House in a 1915 letter to ambassador Gerard, commenting on British refusal to enter peace talks while buying the US munitions.[1] | ||
References
- ^ House & Seymour 1926, p. 98.
Source
[edit]- House, E.M.; Seymour, C. (1926). The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Arranged as a Narrative by Charles Seymour. Vol. 2. Houghton Mifflin. p. 98. Retrieved 2025-03-13.