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"From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy"
- Edward Grey
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Edward Grey
between April 25, 1862 and September 7, 1933. He/she was a famous
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