Presently it'll be true that hardly a title or an estate in England will go to its natural heir--the heir has been killed.

Yet, not a murmur; for England is threatened with invasion.

They'll all die first.

It will presently be true that more men will have been killed in this war than were killed before in all the organized wars since the Christian era began.

The English are willing and eager to stop it if things can be so fixed that there will be no military power in Europe that wishes or prepares to attack and invade England.
I've had many one-hour, two-hour, three-hour talks with Sir Edward Grey.